Procurement Category Manager

Job Description

Working location

• Indianapolis, IN
• 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?

What you will be doing

Who we’re looking for

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

Pay Range

• Pay ranges for remote employees are based on the state where the employee resides and may vary from the posted range.

Benefits

• Rolls-Royce provides a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that includes base pay and a discretionary bonus plan. Eligible employees may have the opportunity to enroll in other benefits, including health, dental, vision, disability, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance; a flexible spending account; a health savings account; a 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match; Employee Assistance Program; Paid Time Off; certain paid holidays; paid parental and family care leave; tuition reimbursement; and a long-term incentive plan. The options available to an employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as date of hire, employment type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.