Supplier Manager

Here at RS, we have an exciting opportunity to join our high-performing and innovative organisation as a Supplier Manager for our Iberia market. We are a company that takes great pride in the investment we make in our people, providing them with every chance to become success.

You will not stand-still in this position, and we will provide you with the guidance, support, and development opportunities for progression that you need to take your career to the next level. This is your chance to be a part of an open, diverse, and truly world-class team

**What you will be doing as a Supplier Manager at RS**

You will play a pivotal role in helping the organisation maintain our position as first choice for both suppliers and customers by playing a part in the development and execution of our EMEA category strategy in Iberia. We will look to you to engage and collaborate with our supplier partners across all levels of their organisations, manage expectations and deliver business plans to drive incremental sales and margin growth.

Though you will be meeting with suppliers every week, you will also spend time with our customers to uncover opportunities and ensure we remain customer centric. In addition, you will work cross-functionally to align the EMEA strategy with our Sales, Marketing, Purchasing, Inventory and Pricing teams, amongst others.

Your focus will be to extract as much value from our suppliers as possible to help support our Commercial, Product and Service offer and work closely with our sales community to gather market intelligence.

**What you enjoy and have experience of to be successful in this role**

Experience in supplier and category management is essential, but it’s so much more than that: we need a business partner with exceptional communication, analytical and influencing skills, someone who is curious and takes ownership with a result-oriented and commercial mindset.

You also need to have:

- The ability to build strong and lasting relationships with internal and external stakeholders across a multitude of teams and levels.
- Good judgment with evidence of business development and a positive ‘can-do’ mindset that sets you apart.
- A strong analytical and commercial way of working.
- Collaborative negotiation skills
- Ability and experience of delivering to strategy.
- Operational problem solver and good process management capability
- Ability to work cross functionally and cross-culturally as part of a wider global team.

**The extras you will get**

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including quarterly performance bonus, and local benefits associated with the Iberia Market.

Monthly Lunch Vouchers

Accident insurance paid by the company

Parking slot in the Alcobendas offices

Possibility of participation in “Loyalty Programs” when the group offers them (Phantom Shares)

EAP Program (Employee Assistance Programme)

Hybrid Working Model

Continuous Learning & Development opportunities

**We are RS**

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 800,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.1 million customers.

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and 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.

**What to do next**

We reply to everyone and will get back to you as soon as we can to let you know if we’d like to arrange an interview.

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