Senior Procurement Commodity Manager

-; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in the East Midlands is seeking a Senior Procurement Category Manager to manage supplier relationships and lead strategic direction within procurement. The successful candidate will have a degree at BA level or CIPS qualifications, strong commercial skills, and a proven track record in negotiations. This role offers a competitive salary and exceptional benefits, including hybrid working options and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Exceptional benefits

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in Direct and/or Indirect Procurement.
• Proven leadership in a regulated or complex industry.
• Understanding of Total Cost of Acquisition/Product Cost Lifecycles.

Responsibilities

• Lead effective management of supplier relationships.
• Ensure strategic direction of partners and suppliers.
• Manage commercial risks within the supply chain.

Skills

Strong commercial and financial skills

Strategic sourcing

Negotiation excellence

Problem solving

Education

Degree at BA level or CIPS qualifications

Job description

Senior Procurement Category Manager

Full Time

Derby/Hybrid

Join our Rolls-Royce Business as a Senior Procurement Category Manager. In this role, you will lead a team within the Raw Materials and Special Processes category to develop and implement global strategies, fostering strong relationships to enhance and improve Cost Quality and Delivery across Procurement. Your creative approach will establish sustainable, long term supply chains, providing a competitive edge for Rolls-Royce, our customers, and suppliers.

You will create and deploy integrated commodity/category strategies, and associated strategic sourcing and commercial activities, which includes ensuring adequate levels of contractual coverage, mitigation of commercial risk, optimizing commercial advantage, providing security of supply, and acceptable levels of liability. You will manage strategic senior level relationships, creating value and competitive advantage, while coaching and mentoring your team to strengthen sourcing capabilities. This position is crucial for sourcing components for all our products and services to support our Business, with key challenges including supplier consolidation and cost savings.

What you will be doing

You will lead a team to ensure effective management of supplier relationships and strategic direction of partners and suppliers, which includes being accountable for managing issues that require escalation, conflict resolution, driving and improving in-contract supplier performance, and reporting out on KPI's to Stakeholders. You will:

• Lead complex negotiations through planning, performing cost analysis by creating total cost or acquisition/ product cost lifecycle models, drafting of contracts and creating business cases to maximize the value proposition across all major categories
• Be responsible for developing, deploying, and maintaining relevant integrated commodity/category supplier strategies that have a clear vision and a strategic framework for the designated supply chain(s) which requires understanding of the commodity landscape, associated risks, and ability to conduct long term planning
• Manage the identification, assessment, and mitigation of commercial risks within the supply chain to ensure continuity and resilience
• Manage, develop & lead a team to excel in their strategic tasks by fostering skill development and achieving superior outcomes for the business

Why Rolls-Royce?

Work with us and we'll welcome you into a culture of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. We will listen first, embrace feedback and act with integrity. We will invest in your continuous learning and development, and make sure you have access to a wide breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career and make a difference.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It's a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we're all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

Who we're looking for

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles. To be successful in this role you will need to have:

• A degree at BA level and or/CIPs qualifications, coupled with experience of working in Direct and/or Indirect Procurement and proven leadership at this level in a regulated or complex industry.
• Strong commercial and financial skills demonstrated through a proven track record of successful negotiations at a senior level that show negotiation excellence through the ability to influence, think strategically, and problem solving to deliver business value
• Understanding of Total Cost of Acquisition/Product Cost Lifecycles and associated levers/analytics, contract drafting and implementation, and category strategy development
• Strong experience in strategic sourcing as well as managing supplier relationships and in-contract supplier management
• Passion to drive change and make a difference combined with ability to solve complex problems

Join us & help Rolls-Royce to become a high-performing, competitive, resilient business.

Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk. The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate but is anticipated to

This job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade.

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We're committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we'll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

Learn more about our global Inclusion Strategy

Grade: Management Level B

For further information, please contact: Alison Connaughton