# Category Manager

At Gerdau, we empower our people to grow, thrive, and make a difference-together. With a culture built on trust and teamwork, we offer meaningful work, continuous development, and opportunities to shape your future. We invite you to come work with us, where your contributions are valued, your voice is heard, and your career is forged with purpose Build Strategic Sourcing Solutions That Drive Impact Gerdau is seeking a Category Manager I to support global sourcing initiatives and strategic procurement activities across multiple steel mills and recycling operations. In this role, you will lead sourcing strategies, supplier negotiations, competitive bidding processes, and contract management efforts that directly impact cost savings, operational performance, and supply chain effectiveness. If you thrive in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, enjoy negotiating complex agreements, and have experience with global sourcing and category management, this is an exciting opportunity to influence procurement decisions across a large-scale industrial organization. What You'll Do Develop and execute procurement and sourcing strategies for assigned categories at the global, national, and regi

- **Id**: 3763420
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/gerdau-category-manager>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T19:17:36Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T20:46:19Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 9
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4854
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Metals & Metallurgy

## Company

- **Id**: 2124200
- **Name**: Gerdau
- **Domain**: gerdau.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/gerdau-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.5
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 9

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T19:17:36Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.857
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 7
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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