• Procurement Category Manager (Marketing)

    Rock Family of Companies (Detroit, MI)


    As a Procurement Category Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the marketing procurement strategy across Rocket Companies. You will serve as the subject matter expert for marketing supplier partnerships—driving value, optimizing costs, and ensuring outstanding service delivery in collaboration with cross-functional partners. By managing relationships with agencies and vendors in areas such as brand, media, PR, marketing data, performance marketing, and production, you will directly support Rocket’s bold marketing vision and growth. Your leadership will bring innovation, structure, and efficiency to the marketing procurement process while fueling an agile, collaborative culture.

    About the role

    + Serve as the category subject matter expert for marketing procurement, leading RFI, RFP, and RFQ processes specific to brand, media, performance marketing, PR, marketing data, and production

    + Collaborate with marketing teams and the contracts team to negotiate with vendors and secure the best value for marketing services

    + Track internal marketing procurement performance and benchmark against industry standards to identify continuous improvement opportunities

    + Identify, evaluate, and recommend both existing and new marketing vendors and agencies to align with evolving marketing needs

    + Conduct in-depth market research to inform sourcing decisions, vendor selection, and to understand competitive cost structures and market innovation in the marketing category

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

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

     

    About you

    Minimum qualifications

    + Bachelor’s degree in a related field

    + 4 or more years of management and strategic procurement experience within the marketing space

    + Direct experience with RFI, RFP, and RFQ processes, especially for marketing services

    + Proven expertise in negotiating and managing contracts and relationships with marketing agencies, suppliers, and platform

    Preferred qualifications

    + Demonstrated ability to optimize category performance and cost within marketing procurement, including benchmarking against industry standards

    + Experience identifying and onboarding new marketing 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 marketing sourcing and contracting

     

    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 (https://www.myrocketcareer.com/working-here/benefits/) .

     

    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_ [email protected]_ _._