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Category Manager Expert Machined

Rexnord Industries LLC

MILWAUKEE, WI · HybridJob$120–140K/yrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago

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Compensation
$120–140K/yr
Location
MILWAUKEE, WIHybrid
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Regal Rexnord seeks a Global Category Manager Expert for Machined Components to lead the global category for machined and bearing components across its worldwide supply base. The role partners with engineering, operations, and regional sourcing teams to pursue cost savings, improve supplier performance, and support supply chain reliability. It leads global sourcing strategies, negotiates machining contracts, develops suppliers in low-cost regions, and builds category frameworks.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Strategic SourcingSupplier QualificationMachining ProcessesMillingTurningGrindingCastingFormingContract NegotiationCost ModelingProblem SolvingCross-Functional Collaboration

Qualifications

English

Full job description

JOB REQUIREMENTS: Work Model: You'll work in a hybrid model, onsite at your designated Regal Rexnord location at least 3 days per week (Monday-Thursday), with flexibility to work remotely up to 2 days, including Friday. ____________________ Position: Global Category Manager Expert - Machined Components Reports To: VP, Supply Chain Region Location: Rosemont, IL - OR - Milwaukee, Wisconsin HQ Remote Type: Hybrid 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 company's 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, candidate's skill set, level of experience, education and internal peer compensation comparisons among other potential factors. Scope of Role We are seeking a Global Category Manager Expert - 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. Responsibilities 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... For full info follow application link. Equal Employment Opportunity Employer: Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Minority/Veteran/Disabled ***** APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Apply Online: ipc.us/t/5F47B0E953444FBD

How this job compares

Set against the 531 open Category Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$120–140K/yr
  • US median$106–152K/yr370 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $130K, is close to the US median midpoint ($127K) — in the middle half of Category Manager salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 17 open Category Manager jobs in Wisconsin and 531 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
Category Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 7 years (480 postings).
Education
347 of the 531 open Category Manager jobs (65%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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