As a Procurement Category Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping procurement strategy across Rocket Companies. You'll serve as the subject matter expert for supplier partnerships—driving value, optimizing costs, and ensuring outstanding service delivery in collaboration with cross-functional partners. Your leadership will bring innovation, structure, and efficiency to the procurement process while fueling an agile, collaborative culture.

About the role

• Serve as the category subject matter expert for procurement, leading prospective supplier research, and strategic sourcing strategies aligned with overall business objectives. These include but are not limited to RFI, RFP, RFQ, and reverse auction.

• Conduct in-depth market research to identify trends, opportunities, and potential risks within the assigned category.

• Identify, evaluate, and recommend both existing and new vendors to align with evolving needs

• Offer alternative sourcing approaches or vendor recommendations to business partners, ensuring the selection of best-value partners

• Work closely with legal and compliance teams to develop, review, and execute contracts, ensuring timely renewals and strict adherence to internal policies as well as Rocket governance and risk management standards

• Identify and implement cost savings initiatives within assigned category, including negotiating favorable pricing and payment terms

About you

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field

• 3 or more years of procurement experience

• Direct experience in sourcing methods including RFI, RFP, RFQ, and reverse auction processes

• Proven expertise in negotiating and managing contracts and relationships

Preferred qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to optimize category performance and cost, including benchmarking against industry standards

• Experience identifying and onboarding new suppliers to address evolving business objectives

• Skilled in cross-functional collaboration and educating business partners about vendor management and supplier accountability

• Knowledge of procurement policy compliance and risk mitigation specific to sourcing and contracting

• Prior procurement experience with services directly related to mortgage origination or procurement experience in facilities management/workforce experience a plus

What you’ll get

Our team members fuel our strategy, innovation and growth, so we ensure the health and well-being of not just you, but your family, too! We go above and beyond to give you the support you need on an individual level and offer all sorts of ways to help you live your best life. We are proud to offer eligible team members perks and health benefits that will help you have peace of mind. Simply put: We’ve got your back. Check out our full list of Benefits and Perks.

About us

Rocket is a Detroit-based company made up of businesses that provide simple, fast and trusted digital solutions for complex transactions. The name comes from our flagship business, now known as Rocket Mortgage®, which was founded in 1985. Today, we’re a publicly traded company involved in many different industries, including mortgages, fintech, real estate and more. We’re insistently different in how we look at the world and are committed to an inclusive workplace where every voice is heard. Apply today to join a team that offers career growth, amazing benefits and the chance to work with leading industry professionals.

This job description is an outline of the primary responsibilities of this position and may be modified at the discretion of the company at any time. Decisions related to employment are not based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. The company provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in completing the application and/or participating in the application process should contact a member of the Human Resources team at Careers@myrocketcareer.com.