Supplier Manager DACH (m/w/d)

Local Supplier management is part of the wider P&SM organisation and executes the category strategy on a local level in strong alignment with the group category team. This includes a key emphasis on in-market business development by developing and leveraging local supplier relationships within the internal framework. 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 realise the category strategy.

Local Supplier management constitutes an important part of the market intelligence of the group category team providing market trends and insights as well as customer needs/insights/feedback.

It is also part of a virtual regional team to ensure regional alignment and maximization of supplier value extraction in association with procurement.

You will be responsible for the following processes

• Development and execution of supplier business plans in line with category strategy
• Supplier value extraction
• Local sourcing within agreed corridor of terms in close association with Procurement
• Communication across all levels of the suppliers’ organisations
• Management of supplier expectations in line with our objectives and category strategy

Key Deliverables for the role

• Execution of local supplier business plans following the group category strategy with an end-to-end channel understanding
• Secure the Supplier’s full line card data to enable automated product launch and improve customer online experience
• Deliver agreed KPI’s for: Supplier sales revenue; Supplier product Margin (cost ownership and resale influence); Customer acquisition and lead generation by supplier while focusing on the customer journey
• Volume and tender price optimisation for focused customer accounts
• Local supplier marketing contributions that tie into the overall RS proposition
• Analyse digital supplier performance using Adobe Data with a focus on digital channels

Your Profile

• Successful track record in supplier/account management or related discipline (ideally minimum 3 years of experience)
• Business planning and execution capability
• Supplier relationship management experience
• Knowledge and experience of working with an online digital toolset
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• A collaborative team player across a business with fast moving, customer driven markets
• Ability to work cross functional as well as cross cultural as part of a wider global team
• Strong commercial acumen and communication skills
• Positive can-do attitude, takes ownership and very result-oriented
• Fluency in German and English is required

Our Benefits:

• Shopping card
• Job Ticket
• Bike Leasing
• 30 days paid holidays
• Saving plans
• Pension scheme

We are RS

RS Group is a global omni-channel provider of product and service solutions for designers, builders and maintainers of industrial equipment and operations. It looks to provide an unrivalled choice of products, to help its customers solve problems with innovative solutions.

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. 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. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.  ​

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.  ​

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do. ​

Come and join us and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things, too.​

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