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This is Infinite Potential. And it’s your chance to really shine and contribute to one of the world’s most recognized brands and a beacon for engineering excellence.\nPosition Summary:\nJoin our Rolls-Royce Business as a Procurement Category Manager. 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. In this role, you will travel up to 25% domestically and internationally.\nWhat you will be doing:\nEffective 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.\nLead 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.\nResponsible 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.\nManage the identification, assessment, and mitigation of commercial risks within the supply chain to ensure continuity and resilience.\nManage & lead a team of buyer(s) to excel in their tasks by fostering skill development and achieving superior outcomes for the business\nBasic Requirements:\nAssociate degree with 7+ years of procurement or supply chain experience, OR\nBachelor’s degree with 5+ years of procurement or supply chain experience, OR\nMaster’s degree with 3+ years of procurement or supply chain experience, OR\nJD/PhD, OR\n9+ years of procurement or supply chain experience in lieu of a degree\nIn order to be eligible for consideration, you must be a U.S. Citizen\nPreferred Requirements:\nCommercial, procurement and strategy experience\nAerospace or Defense procurement experience\nOur vision is to ensure that the quality and dynamism that shaped our history continues into our future. It’s a bold pursuit, and we never stop striving to go further, faster, and better. We lead progress, creating the technologies that move us forward. If you’re driven to grow, to learn, and to make a lasting difference, this is where you belong.\nRolls-Royce is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristics. We are committed to providing a respectful and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued and everyone can thrive.\nInfinite Potential\nClosing date: November 3, 2026\nJob Category\nProcurementJob Posting Date\n27 Oct 2026; 00:10Pay Range\nPay ranges for remote employees are based on the state where the employee resides and may vary from the posted range.\n$111,868 - $181,786-Annually\nLocation:\nIndianapolis, IN Benefits\nRolls-Royce provides a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that includes base pay and a discretionary bonus plan. 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