Senior Category Manager

Preferred location is Milwaukee (Hybrid), will consider remote candidates

Join our dynamic team as a Senior Category Manager! This role offers a unique opportunity to step into a position of influence, providing global category leadership. As a key player in our supply chain organization, you will collaborate with regional category teams, divisional product leaders, and operations to implement strategies that not only drive value but also promote sustainability in our supply chain.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain a multi-year category strategy that delivers year-over-year value to the organization

- Develop a multi-year purchase Category strategy to deliver year-over-year cost savings, consolidate suppliers, reduce risk and improve trade working capital

- Manages complex multi-year supplier relationships to enable our front-end portfolio strategies

- Maintains ownership and communication for all strategic sourcing activities for  assigned commodities and services to cross-functional teams

- Conducts and leads brainstorming sessions at facilities with cross-functional teams to identify strategic opportunities and deployment priorities on cost-saving initiatives.

- Provides oversight to sourcing/project managers on the deployment of projects with internal and external stakeholder

- Collaborates with global and regional sourcing teams to identify, screen and qualify strategic suppliers.

- Works with global facilities to create regional and global material cost savings funnels that align with commercial strategies and financial targets

- Drives spend analysis, including countermeasures for projects that deviate from plan and make  decisions to address issues

- Proactively assesses internal and external process improvements, influences effective change, and drive innovation and continuous improvements

- Collaborates with global business units on the preparation of Request for Proposals (RFPs), Request for Quotations (RFQ’s) and leads the screening and supplier selection process

- Negotiate and draft supplier contracts of sale, including payment terms, deliveries, price, freight terms, currency exchange, raw material steel fluctuation, inventory levels

- Analyzes market and delivery conditions to determine present and future (industry trends in pricing and availability that will impact the business) material availability, and prepares market analysis reports

- Responsible for timely reporting on key metrics and presenting Strategic Sourcing plans, activities and progress

Professional Experience/Qualifications:

The successful candidate will have proven experience and qualifications in the following:

- BA or BS degree in Supply Chain/Operations Management, Business or related field OR equivalent experience

- 5-10 years’ experience working in an industrial manufacturing environment with experience in strategic Procurement/Supply Chain, or similar position

- Proven success of strategically working with suppliers

- Experience sourcing in best value low-cost regions

- Experience working with multiple locations globally

- Proven success in change management

- Ownership of direct material categories with general knowledge of other categories such as steel, resin, forgings and stampings are a plus

- Proven success in a matrix-driven organization

- Excellent working knowledge of industrial markets, suppliers and company requirements

- Domestic and International travel requirements up to 25%

The targeted base salary for the role is $115,000-$140,000 dependent on experience.

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

About Regal Rexnord

Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.

The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.

Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Regal Rexnord is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status (unless required by the applicable law or government contract), disability or protected veteran status or any other status or characteristic protected by law. Regal Rexnord is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to building a team that represents diverse and inclusive backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan for protected veterans/individuals with disabilities or policy statement, please email Recruiting@RegalRexnord.com. If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please e-mail Recruiting@RegalRexnord.com.

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: Please note that Regal Rexnord Corporation and its affiliates and subsidiaries ("Regal Rexnord") do not accept unsolicited resumes or calls from third-party recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Master Service Agreement or similar contract and approval from HR to submit resumes for a specific requisition, Regal Rexnord will not consider or approve payment to any third-parties for hires made.