Global Category Manager Expert - Machined Components

Regal Rexnord; Des Plaines (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k Matching

Paid Time Off

Tuition Assistance

AD&D Insurance

Job summary

Regal Rexnord seeks a Global Category Manager Expert for Machined Components to lead a global category across our worldwide supply base. You will partner with engineering, operations, and regional sourcing to unlock cost savings and improve supplier performance.

You will shape sourcing strategies, negotiate complex machining contracts, and build category frameworks that support scalability and sustainability, working in a matrixed environment to deliver measurable business value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Business, Supply Chain, Engineering) or equivalent experience.
• Strong global sourcing experience and strategic procurement across manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Plans, directs and communicates strategic sourcing activities for machined components.
• Leads global supplier qualification and category strategies to achieve cost savings and reliability.
• Negotiates and manages machining contracts, payment terms and delivery schedules.
• Develops supplier development programs and regional/global cost-savings funnels.
• Drives spend analysis, KPI reporting, and strategic project deployment across regions.

Skills

Category management

Machined components

Cost reduction

Negotiation

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Scope of Role We are seeking a Global Category Manager Expert – Machined Components to lead the global category for Machined and Bearing components across our worldwide supply base. This high-impact role partners with engineering, operations, and regional sourcing teams to unlock cost savings, improve supplier performance, and ensure long-term supply chain reliability.

Scope of Role We are seeking a Global Category Manager Expert – Machined Components to lead the global category for Machined and Bearing components across our worldwide supply base. This high-impact role partners with engineering, operations, and regional sourcing teams to unlock cost savings, improve supplier performance, and ensure long-term supply chain reliability.

You will lead global sourcing strategies, negotiate complex machining contracts, develop suppliers in low-cost regions, and build category frameworks that support scalability and sustainability. From cost modeling to problem-solving sessions with plant teams, this role sits at the intersection of technical expertise, strategic leadership, and global supplier partnership.

If you have deep knowledge of machining processes (milling, turning, grinding, casting, forming), thrive in a matrixed environment, and enjoy building strategies that deliver meaningful business value, this is an opportunity to lead category transformation at a global scale.

Responsibilities

• Plans, organizes, directs, and communicates all strategic sourcing activities for assigned commodities and services, collaborating closely with cross-functional partners in supply chain, engineering, technical support, and operations.
• Conducts brainstorming and problem-solving sessions at facilities with cross-functional groups to identify strategic opportunities and prioritize deployment of cost-saving initiatives.
• Provides oversight, guidance, and direction to sourcing and project managers to ensure effective deployment of strategic projects with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborates with global and regional supply teams to identify, assess, and qualify strategic suppliers that align with category and business objectives.
• Partners with global facilities to build regional and global material cost-savings funnels aligned with corporate strategies and financial targets.
• Leads comprehensive spend analysis, developing countermeasures for projects that fall short of plan and making data-driven decisions to resolve issues and ensure teams meet or exceed financial targets.
• Develop and deliver category strategies that advance strategic sourcing initiatives, drive year-over-year cost savings, and support long-term value creation.
• Proactively evaluates internal and external process improvement opportunities, leading and influencing meaningful changes to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
• Partners with Regal Rexnord business segments to prepare Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and oversees the screening and supplier selection process.
• Negotiates and manages supplier contracts, including payment terms, delivery schedules, pricing, freight terms, currency exposure, raw material fluctuations, and inventory levels.
• Analyzes market and delivery conditions to assess current and future product needs and identify potential availability risks.
• Provides timely reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs) and presents strategic sourcing plans and performance updates to stakeholders.

Professional Experience/Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required (BA or BS), preferably in Business, Supply Chain, Operations Management, or Engineering.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in an industrial manufacturing environment within a strategic Procurement or Supply Chain role.
• Proven experience developing and executing global sourcing strategies.
• Strong technical expertise in machining processes—including milling, turning, grinding, metal forming, and gear cutting with deep understanding of manufacturing and raw material inputs for machined and stamped components.
• Proven experience operating within a matrixed organization and managing categories at a global level.
• Experienced in negotiating external machining processes and driving supplier development with measurable performance improvements.
• Skilled in sourcing across low-cost regions and managing global, multi-region partnerships.
• Proven success thriving in change-intensive, high-stretch environments.
• Strong cost-modeling expertise for machined, cast, and fabricated components.
• Proven track record delivering strategic sourcing KPIs, including cost reductions and strategy deployment.
• Able to navigate and solve complex, high-volume, and sometimes contradictory information effectively.

Travel: Up to 20%

Language: English

Compensation Details: Expected Base Salary Range: $120,000 - $140,000. The salary range provided is intended to display the value of the company's base pay compensation for this position. Salary is dependent on a multitude of factors, including but not limited to the physical worksite location, the geographic market of that location, candidate's skill set, level of experience, education and internal peer compensation comparisons among other potential factors.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
• Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions
• Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Paid Leaves
• Tuition Assistance

About Regal Rexnord Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.

The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.

Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement Regal Rexnord is an Equal Opportunity and Affliative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status (unless required by the applicable law or government contract), disability or protected veteran status or any other status or characteristic protected by law. Regal Rexnord is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to building a team that represents diverse and inclusive backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. If you'd like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan for protected veterans/individuals with disabilities or policy statement, please email [e-mail]. If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please e-mail [e-mail].

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