Strategic Buyer

Job Description

Job Title: Strategic Buyer

Working Pattern: Hybrid (3 in office days a week)

Working Location: Indianapolis, IN

As a Strategic 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.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

At Rolls-Royce, we are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We foster a welcoming and innovative work environment that invests in you, giving you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

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.

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 behaviors 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 4+ years of experience in purchasing, OR

Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years of experience in purchasing, OR

Master’s degree, OR

JD/PhD, OR

6+ years of experience in purchasing in lieu of a degree

In order to be eligible for this opportunity, 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 will be provided if applicable.

Posting Close Date: July 31, 2026

Job Category

Procurement

Job Posting Date

24 Jul 2026; 00:07

Pay Range

$81,520 - $132,470-Annually

Location:

Indianapolis, IN

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.