Strategic Buyer
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Why Rolls-Royce?
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.
Position Summary:
As a Buyer for Rolls-Royce, you'll play an integral role in developing the purchasing strategy across various commodities and executing that strategy through high-impact contract negotiations, lead commercial activities, and ensure supply chain competitiveness, compliance, and resilience. This is an exciting opportunity, as you'll interface with a range of senior internal stakeholders and drive success to improve cost, quality, delivery and performance.
What you will be doing:
- Lead supplier negotiations, strategic sourcing, and category management to drive cost, quality, and delivery improvements
- Taking a significant role in crafting commodity strategies
- Building relationships with suppliers
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies that align with the company goals and deliver measurable value
- Lead cost-reduction initiatives and risk mitigation plans to ensure commercial resilience
- Collaborate across business functions to align procurement strategy with organizational priorities
- Support ongoing process improvement and best practice sharing across the global network
Basic Requirements:
- Associate degree with 4+ years of experience in purchasing or supply chain, OR
- Bachelor's degree with 2+ years of experience in purchasing or supply chain, OR
- Master's degree, OR
- JD/PhD, OR
- 6+ years of experience in purchasing or supply chain 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
Our 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.
Rolls-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.
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