Supplier Manager

**Supplier Manager**

The Supplier Manager is part of the wider Product and Supplier Management organization and executes the agreed common EMEA category strategy on a local level. This includes developing and leveraging local supplier relationships within the 7 pillars framework, focusing on the strategic suppliers in first priority, qualifying new suppliers following a request from the sales team or from insight coming from the EMEA team or from an insight came from a supplier. Main objectives include achieving targeted profitable growth, customer acquisition, market share growth and ROI. This is achieved through development and execution of supplier business plans to realize the category strategy.

The Supplier Manager constitute an important part of the market intelligence of the group category team providing market trends and insights as well as customer needs/insights/feedback. Also part of a virtual regional team to ensure regional alignment and maximization of supplier value extraction supported by procurement and governance.

**About the role**

The Supplier Manager is responsible for the following processes:
Development and execution of supplier business plans in line with the agreed common EMEA category strategy.

Supplier value extraction.

Local sourcing within agreed corridor of terms

Communication across all levels of the suppliers’ organisations

Management of supplier expectations in line with our objectives and category strategy

Securing Minimum Viable Content (MVC) product and transactional content onto content aggregator as basis for all NPIs

Successful NPI delivery and performance by supplier following the supplier segmentation

Collaboration across the regional product teams and achievement of suppliers KPI’s.

Develop a marketing plan and ensure its delivered & invoiced

**What we’re looking for**

Successful track record in supplier/account management or related discipline

Business planning and execution capability

A collaborative team player across a business with fast moving, customer driven markets

Successful supplier relationship management

Ability to work cross functional as well as cross cultural as part of a wider global team

Strong commercial acumen and broad communication skills

Educated to degree-level or equivalent

Understanding of marketing, purchasing and inventory control

Operational problem solver and good process management capability

**A bit about you**

We are looking for someone who has an outstanding communication and influencing skills

Positive can-do attitude, takes ownership and very results oriented completed the profile

**We are RS Group.**

RS Group is a global integrated omni-channel solutions partner for industrial B2B customers who design, build, and maintain industrial equipment and operations. We are a FTSE 100 company with £2 billion in revenue, operating in 32 countries, shipping 60,000 parcels a day to over 1.2 million customers worldwide.

Our Vision is to be first choice for all our stakeholders, and we know that starts with our people. At RS we want everyone to show up to work as themselves and know that they will be supported and encouraged to develop and grow. We want work to be a place that excites and empowers, a place where you can be passionate and challenge people to think differently.

We want to hire the best talent, people who share our values and understand that when we act with respect and humility, we can do great things. That’s why we’ve put our purpose at the heart of our organisation, we want to make amazing happen for a better world. We empower our people to make a difference, innovate to make more possible and deliver to make it happen.

**Are you ready to explore the possibilities?