Global Category Manager

Job Description

Procurement Category Manager/Global Category Manager

Why Rolls-Royce 

Join our Rolls-Royce Business as a Procurement Category Manager/Global Category Manager. In this 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.

Rolls Royce offers more than just a job, you'll be part of an inclusive culture that champions continuous learning and development, providing you with a wealth of experience and growth opportunities. There has never been a more exciting time to be part of Procurement within Rolls-Royce as our recent transformation programme has positioned the function as a critical Business Capability, trusted to deliver against our ambitious performance and financial targets. Beyond engine parts and aftermarket services, our procurement team acquires everything needed to run our company from IT services to catering, and we have opportunities in both our Aerospace Category Teams and Indirect Procurement Teams, with roles focusing on both strategic sourcing and strategic in-contract management. As well as providing an opportunity to demonstrate your procurement skills such as negotiation, strategic sourcing and supplier management, Rolls-Royce is also embracing the future of procurement by developing a digitally enabled and literate organisation, alongside a focus on embedding sustainability into the way we operate both internally and across our supply chain.

We offer excellent career development competitive salaries and exceptional benefits including bonuses employee support and discounts. Understanding that your needs are as unique as you are, we encourage flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working ensuring that you can excel wherever and whenever you work. Take the next step in your career with Rolls Royce and help us pioneer the power that matters.

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 of 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 are looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviors and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.
 A degree at BA level and or/CIPs qualifications, coupled with. with experience of working in procurement and proven leadership at this level in a regulated or complex industry. Experience of working in IT, Electronics, Indirect and Direct Procurement is highly desirable.
 Strong commercial and financial skills demonstrated through a proven track record of successful negotiations at a senior level that show negotiation excellence through the ability to influence, think strategically, and problem solver to deliver business value.
 Understanding of Total Cost of Acquisition/Product Cost Lifecycles and associated levers/analytics, contract drafting and implementation, and category strategy development
 Strong experience in strategic sourcing as well as managing supplier relationships and in-contract supplier management.
 Passion to drive change and make a difference combined with ability to solve complex problems.

The professional level and the salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate.

We are an equal opportunities employer. Were committed to developing a diverse team and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful well be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realize their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

Job Category

Procurement

Posting Date

31 Jul 2024; 00:07,