Product Portfolio Manager - Sensors

About RS Group

Across the industrial design, manufacturing and maintenance worlds, we’re the digital destination for product and service solutions to help our customers with the maintenance, repair and operation of their businesses. We provide global access to an unrivalled range of over 750,000 stocked industrial products. Each day our team of experts deliver solutions to resolve our customer’s challenges across design, procurement, inventory and maintenance. We consistently strive to deliver the best possible service to all of our customers and challenge ourselves to provide a seamless procurement experience.

We are one team. We deliver brilliantly. We do the right thing. We make every day better. These are our values. They unite our c.9,000 global colleagues and differentiate us from our competition. They are a mix of how we work today and how we must step up for the future. Most importantly, it is one set of values shaped by our people, for our people.

Together, we can make great things happen. Aim for amazing and beyond.

Product and Supplier Management is where the RS product portfolio comes to life. By partnering with over 500 world class suppliers, we develop a product offering to support our internal sales team and external customers. We engage cross-functionally with other departments such as Supply Chain, Marketing, and Content to create positive customer experiences in their search for the products to fit their applications.

About the Role

Role Purpose

As Product Portfolio Manager, you will focus on building and accelerating the development, evaluation and execution of product expansion opportunities with existing and new suppliers. You will be a strong collaborator with an entrepreneurial mindset that is outcome oriented, someone with the ability to envision the big picture and implement tactically.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive technology portfolio expansion by adding new products to our offer.
• Determine which products added should be stocked utilizing technology knowledge and data analysis tools to drive decisions. 
• Influence new supplier acquisition for the product category in conjunction with the product category team.
• Collaborate with RS’ Content team to ensure that product data held in the system is relevant and accurate.
• Understand existing portfolio landscape and dynamics and analyzing competitor product positioning to uncover opportunities for expansion.
• Engage with RS’ Marketing team to ensure campaigns best represent RS’/Supplier’s portfolio offering

How I make a difference in this role

The Product Portfolio Manager will determine the portfolio strategy and development of their assigned supplier base. They will use market intelligence, supplier recommendations, and internal reporting to create and maintain RS’ product portfolio to drive financial performance and positive customer experiences.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong analytic and decision-making skills utilizing multiple data points and Excel
• Effective communication skills – verbal, written and listening
• Exhibits a positive attitude and is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external stakeholders including customers and suppliers.
• Strong teamwork and organizational skills
• Knows how to set priorities and can quickly zero in on what is critical
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel
• Strong interpersonal skills and be able to build effective relationships
• 3-5 years of Industrial distribution experience in similar role.
• Basic math skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
• Presentation ability in front of the Supplier management team, suppliers, and other stakeholders in the business.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• 4-year degree in Business or related field
• Knowledge of the specific product technology is HIGHLY desirable
• Supplier and technology obsessed attitude with a constant desire to learn more.
• Experience with Power BI
• Experience with Access

Org Structure 

Reporting to Category Manager with key relationships with Supplier Managers and Product Director

Equal Employment Opportunity

RS Americas is an equal opportunity employer and maintains policies and practices that are designed to prevent and prohibit unlawful discrimination against any qualified employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, military/veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other unlawful classification to the extent protected by law. This policy of non-discrimination applies to all employment practices, including hiring, compensation, benefits, promotion, training and termination. Employees who engage in unlawful discrimination will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination.

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