Solutions Consultant

Solutions Consultant

Virtual, Remote Working

We have an exciting opportunity has opened within our EMEA Value Added Solutions team. The  Solutions Consultant role requires strong execution skills as you are sharing accountability for the successful delivery and growth of RS Value Added Solutions into defined EMEA markets. This person will work closely with the Head of Product Management & Delivery and senior market stakeholders to build and execute a Value-Added Solutions roadmap with partner markets, focusing on the ongoing growth of existing solutions and importantly the establishment of new, EMEA-wide capabilities such as Inventory Solutions.

This person will ensure that markets understand and are ‘bought in’ to the delivery roadmap for inventory solutions and will support them with subject matter expertise to build and execute their local plan.  This will ensure markets know how to define and recruit required resources, adopt technology systems and adopt/develop business processes to deliver a consistent customer experience and commercial business model.

This person will also work with the wider EMEA VAS team, Digital and Technology functions to ensure that product roadmaps and development activities in relation to eCommerce solutions are effectively communicated into market stakeholders. We hope you will develop a strong commercial understanding of customer needs, competitor environment and overall market commercial landscape., using this knowledge to inform market stakeholders and collectively deliver against execution plans that drive sustainable profitable growth.

Success will come from:

Collaborating with market and regional and group functions to deliver industry recognised best practice project installations, including an acceptance into service framework that provides support for ongoing implementations & service issue resolution.

Supporting partner markets build and scale new and existing profitable capabilities through structured project planning, operational excellence, and commercial governance

Collaborating with the broader EMEA VAS team to deliver new go to market materials into markets including sales presentations, case studies and technical value calculators.

What we are looking for from you:

A proven with a track record of managing operationally focused teams in a process centric environment.

Solid experience of establishing operational, customer implementation and technical support processes in relation to managed service and digital propositions.

You shine as an effective coach and collaborator, influencing other teams to take personal ownership & responsibility.

An appreciation of digital procurement methods such as PunchOut, Electronic Ordering, Electronic Invoicing, and web order management tools would be great!

Benefits

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, private healthcare and 30 days holiday, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:

- Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation
- Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome
- Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause
- Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery

Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all

We are RS

From our humble beginnings operating out of a lock-up garage in London in 1937 to the global company we are today, we’ve been on an incredible journey supporting engineers around the world with products for all types of applications, and the best is still to come.

As a leading provider of industrial and electrical products and service solutions, we provide over 700,000 products, sending over 60,000 parcels every day.

Our unique team of over 7,600 individuals is the lifeblood of our business. Every day, their passion and expertise enable us to Make Amazing Happen for a Better World. We are working hard to create a purpose-led culture where our people are proud and excited to come to work every day. Investing in their wellbeing, development and, above all, empowering them to drive our journey towards being a truly great company. 

And rest assured, being an ethical and responsible business underpins everything we do. Our people support our customers to help build a better world. That’s why Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) is at our heart, driving our commitment to deliver long-term benefits through our 2030 ESG action plan - with a focus on sustainable solutions.