Head of Product & Supplier Management

Location: This is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from either our Corby or Manchester office.

The Opportunity

As the Head of Product & Supplier Management, you will be responsible for leading and coordinating the commercial Product & Supplier Management teams in delivering sustainable and profitable sales and market share growth within the UK&I market

Placing the customer at the heart of what we do, with our strategic and key suppliers in mind you will create a progressive and forward-thinking team that is focussed on maximising our market relationships with suppliers to drive the best possible outcomes for our customers.

This role will allow you to operate in a highly complex, fast-moving, multi-cultural environment and be part of a wider EMEA P&SM leadership community. The person will be actively encouraged to seek new and better ways to develop the Product & Supplier Management function within the UK&I.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead, manage and develop the P&SM organisation
• Achieve defined targets relating to category growth, margin and strategic supplier performance, adapting to meet any revised targets / KPIs
• Develop, define and deliver the UK&I category strategies to deliver growth across all product groups, including supplier-funded marketing, new product introduction roadmap, pricing strategies and promotional activity
• High engagement with the sales teams, reviewing pipeline health, joining opportunity teams and influencing the necessary sales focus to achieve category targets
• Build strong local relationships with strategic suppliers to identify new growth opportunities to exploit for the UK&I market
• Work across the UK&I leadership community to ensure end-to-end success in Inventory, Maintenance, Procurement Solutions, and Technical Advocacy, which drives long-term sustainable growth and brand loyalty.
• Drive incremental margin benefit through delivery of supplier-supported pricing to help us win with our customers while growing our profitability
• Facilitating a feedback culture and processes that enable relevant insight on market, supplier, customer and competitor dynamics
• Oversee strategic supplier relationships to ensure they are in the best position to drive incremental value
• Regular customer interaction to ensure a strong, direct understanding of customer needs and developing trends
• Proactive contribution and representation of the UK&I market as part of the EMEA P&SM council
• Provide a focal point for UK&I inventory and supplier delivery performance and work across Supply Chain teams to deliver improved customer delivery performance

What You will Bring

• Extensive experience in Product and/or Supplier Management
• B2B Industrial Distribution experience
• A strategic and analytical mindset.
• An excellent communicator with top-notch presentation skills.
• Dynamic thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Leadership and mentoring skills.
• Developing and implementing strategies and performance goals
• Setting and monitoring budgets and workflows

We Are RS

We’ve been solving industry problems for over 80 years. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions to over 1.2 million customers globally, shipping a parcel every 2 seconds to over 130 countries. With over 800,000 stocked and 3 million unstocked products, we’re a trusted partner to the world’s leading industries.

We’re looking for curious, driven, and empathetic professionals to join our journey. People who think differently, act with purpose, and want to make a real impact. 

Rewards

Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company.

Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:

• Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
• Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
• Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
• Spotlight – our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values

Ready to Make Amazing Happen?

Join c. 9,000 colleagues and help us shape the future of our industry. Whoever you are, wherever you are — it all starts here.

Apply now and make RS a part of your journey.

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