Scope of Role
We are seeking a Global Category Manager Expert 6 Machined Components to lead the global category for Machined and Bearing components across our worldwide supply base. This highimpact role partners with engineering, operations, and regional sourcing teams to unlock cost savings, improve supplier performance, and ensure longterm supply chain reliability.
You will lead global sourcing strategies, negotiate complex machining contracts, develop suppliers in lowcost regions, and build category frameworks that support scalability and sustainability. From cost modeling to problemsolving sessions with plant teams, this role sits at the intersection of technical expertise, strategic leadership, and global supplier partnership.
If you have deep knowledge of machining processes (milling, turning, grinding, casting, forming), thrive in a matrixed environment, and enjoy building strategies that deliver meaningful business value, this is an opportunity to lead category transformation at a global scale.
- Plans, organizes, directs, and communicates all strategic sourcing activities for assigned commodities and services, collaborating closely with crossfunctional partners in supply chain, engineering, technical support, and operations.
- Conducts brainstorming and problemsolving sessions at facilities with crossfunctional groups to identify strategic opportunities and prioritize deployment of costsaving initiatives.
- Provides oversight, guidance, and direction to sourcing and project managers to ensure effective deployment of strategic projects with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Collaborates with global and regional supply teams to identify, assess, and qualify strategic suppliers that align with category and business objectives.
- Partners with global facilities to build regional and global material costsavings funnels aligned with corporate strategies and financial targets.
- Leads comprehensive spend analysis, developing countermeasures for projects that fall short of plan and making datadriven decisions to resolve issues and ensure teams meet or exceed financial targets.
- Develop and deliver category strategies that advance strategic sourcing initiatives, drive yearoveryear cost savings, and support longterm value creation.
- Proactively evaluates internal and external process improvement opportunities, leading and influencing meaningful changes to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
- Partners with Regal Rexnord business segments to prepare Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and oversees the screening and supplier selection process.
- Negotiates and manages supplier contracts, including payment terms, delivery schedules, pricing, freight terms, currency exposure, raw material fluctuations, and inventory levels.
- Analyzes market and delivery conditions to assess current and future product needs and identify potential availability risks.
- Provides timely reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs) and presents strategic sourcing plans and performance updates to stakeholders.
Professional Experience/Qualifications
- Bachelor92s degree required (BA or BS), preferably in Business, Supply Chain, Operations Management, or Engineering.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in an industrial manufacturing environment within a strategic Procurement or Supply Chain role.
- Proven experience developing and executing global sourcing strategies.
- Strong technical expertise in machining processes 6including milling, turning, grinding, metal forming, and gear cutting 6with deep understanding of manufacturing and raw material inputs for machined and stamped components.
- Proven experience operating within a matrixed organization and managing categories at a global level.
- Experienced in negotiating external machining processes and driving supplier development with measurable performance improvements.
- Skilled in sourcing across lowcost regions and managing global, multiregion partnerships.
- Proven success thriving in changeintensive, highstretch environments.
- Strong costmodeling expertise for machined, cast, and fabricated components.
- Proven track record delivering strategic sourcing KPIs, including cost reductions and strategy deployment.
- Able to navigate and solve complex, highvolume, and sometimes contradictory information effectively.
Travel: Up to 20%
Language: English
Compensation Details: Expected Base Salary Range: $120,000 - $140,000. The salary range provided is intended to display the value of the companys base pay compensation for this position. Salary is dependent on a multitude of factors, including but not limited to the physical worksite location, the geographic market of that location, candidates skill set, level of experience, education and internal peer compensation comparisons among other potential factors.
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Benefits- Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
- Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
- Paid Time Off and Holidays
- 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions
- Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
- Paid Leaves
- Tuition Assistance
