Job Title: Senior Procurement Category Manager

Working Pattern: Hybrid (3 office days a week)

Working location: Indianapolis, IN

The Senior Procurement Manager (SPCM) role manages a team of procurement professionals to develop and execute global sourcing and category strategies that deliver cost savings, supplier performance improvements, and long-term business value. The Senior Procurement Category Manager will lead high-impact negotiations, oversee complex commercial activities, and ensure supply chain competitiveness, compliance, and resilience. You’ll influence senior stakeholders and leverage global talent to strengthen Rolls-Royce’s sourcing capability across multiple business areas.

What you will be doing:

• Lead supplier negotiations, strategic sourcing, and category management to drive cost, quality, and delivery improvements.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies that align with the company goals and deliver measurable value.
• Manage supplier relationships, ensuring performance, compliance, and long-term collaboration.
• Oversee cost-reduction initiatives and risk mitigation plans to ensure commercial resilience.
• Guide and develop a team of strategic sourcing professionals to build capability and drive results.
• Collaborate across business functions to align procurement strategy with organizational priorities.
• Support ongoing process improvement and best-practice sharing across the global procurement network.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

Basic Requirements:

• Associate degree with 10+ years of procurement experience, OR
• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of procurement experience, OR
• Master’s degree with 6+ years of procurement experience, OR
• JD/PhD with 3+ years of procurement experience, OR
• 12+ years of experience in procurement in lieu of a degree
• In order to be eligible for consideration, you must be a U.S. Citizen

Preferred Requirements:

• Commercial, procurement and strategy experience

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location.  It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement.  As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

Relocation assistance is available for this position.

Level B B&P

Closing date: June 22, 2026

If you have questions regarding this requisition, please contact Alisha Byrne.

Benefits

Rolls-Royce provides a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that includes base pay and a discretionary bonus plan. Eligible employees may have the opportunity to enroll in other benefits, including health, dental, vision, disability, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance; a flexible spending account; a health savings account; a 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match; Employee Assistance Program; Paid Time Off; certain paid holidays; paid parental and family care leave; tuition reimbursement; and a long-term incentive plan. The options available to an employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as date of hire, employment type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.