# VP Procurement Category Manager

Job Description VP Procurement Category Manager Full Time/ Hybrid (3 days per week on site) Derby, UK Exciting opportunities have become available for VP Procurement Category Managers to join the Civil Aerospace Team. Procurement Category Management is accountable for category and sourcing performance across a defined portfolio of commodities. Leading Procurement Category Managers, aligning commodity strategies, supplier choices and commercial priorities to deliver cost, quality, delivery, resilience and long-term business value. The VP Procurement Category Manager role provides portfolio-level commercial leadership and ensures sourcing decisions follow the appropriate governance. What you will be doing: The VP Procurement Category Manager will be responsible for leading the commodity portfolio strategy, aligning category priorities, supplier choices and commercial plans with business goals and measurable value. Assures major sourcing and negotiation activity, challenging commercial positions and ensuring proposals deliver cost, quality, delivery and contractual outcomes. Owns portfolio-level commercial and supply risk and drives cost and value delivery. Preferred requirements: Ext

- **Id**: 4074208
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rolls-royce-vp-procurement-category-manager>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Derby, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T14:48:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T21:39:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3606
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Supply Chain, Nuclear Energy, Naval Systems, Defense Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 4431609
- **Name**: Rolls-Royce
- **Domain**: rollsroyce.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/rollsroyce-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 11
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 15
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T14:48:08Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 15
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T22:20:03Z

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