Procurement Category Manager

rollsroyce; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Job summary

Rolls-Royce is seeking a Procurement Category Manager to lead a team of buyers, shaping global strategies and ensuring strong supplier relationships. The role focuses on improving cost, quality, and delivery, with emphasis on long-term sustainable supply chains and risk mitigation.

Responsibilities include negotiating complex contracts, developing category strategies, and driving supplier performance metrics. Hybrid work arrangement is offered, with relocation not available for this position.

Qualifications

• Associate degree and 7+ years of Supply Chain, Procurement, Logistics or Operations experience.
• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of Supply Chain, Procurement, Logistics or Operations experience.
• Master's degree and 3+ years of Supply Chain, Procurement, Logistics or Operations experience.
• JD/PhD and 9+ years of experience in Supply Chain, Procurement, Logistics or Operations experience.
• U.S. Citizenship or U.S. Permanent Resident required

Responsibilities

• Effective management of supplier relationships and strategic direction of partners and suppliers, including escalation, conflict resolution, in-contract performance, and KPI reporting.
• Lead complex negotiations with total cost lifecycle models, contracts, and business cases to maximize value across major categories.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain integrated commodity/category supplier strategies with a clear vision and framework for designated supply chains.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate commercial risks to ensure continuity and resilience in the supply chain.
• Manage and mentor a team of buyers to achieve superior outcomes for the business.

Skills

Supplier relationship management

Strategic sourcing

Negotiation

Cost analysis

Team leadership

Education

Associate degree

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

JD/PhD

Job description

Join our Rolls-Royce Business as a Procurement Category Manager role, you will lead a team of buyers 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.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere. At Rolls-Royce, we are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We foster a welcoming and innovative work environment that invests in you, giving you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

Rolls-Royce is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristics.

What you will be doing :

• 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 KPIs to procurement.
• 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.
• 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 & lead a team of buyer(s) to excel in their strategic tasks by fostering skill development and achieving superior outcomes for the business

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.

Basic Requirements:

• Associate degree and 7+ years of Supply Chain, Procurement, Logistics or Operations experience, OR
• Bachelor's degree and 5+ of Supply Chain, Procurement, Logistics or Operations experience, OR
• Master's degree and 3+ of Supply Chain, Procurement, Logistics or Operations experience, OR
• JD/PhD, OR
• 9+ years of experience in Supply Chain, Procurement, Logistics or Operations experience

In order to be considered for this opportunity, you must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. Permanent Resident

Preferred Requirements:

• Long term contract negotiations and drafting
• Knowledge of and experience working with casting and Forging within Aerospace.
• Knowledge of United States Government sourcing

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, 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.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Closing date: October 2, 2026

Job Category

Procurement

Job Posting Date

22 Sep 2026; 00:09

Pay Range

Pay ranges for remote employees a