Job Title
A Challenging Role for a Supplier Development Manager.
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual to join our EMEA team as a Supplier Development Manager at our Head Quarters in Egham, Surrey.
The successful candidate will receive a highly competitive salary, full training, and a range of benefits including:
* Life Insurance
* Career Development and Progression
* Social Club and Events
* Plus, many more
Job Outline:
The primary responsibility of the EMEA Supplier Development Manager (SDM) is to ensure the successful execution of the business plan for their assigned focus suppliers. The SDM acts as the bridge to drive successful engagement between marketing, sales, engineering, and the supplier.
* Hold principal accountability for success with assigned focus suppliers.
* Develop a business plan with associated programmes, gain mindshare and acceptance from the organisation and drive success across the EMEA organisation.
* Control and communicate NPI to all relevant parties, including Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and management.
* Communicate supplier strengths, product offerings, roadmaps, and strategies effectively across the EMEA organisation in order to target specific/strategic customers where requested.
* Work with the technical and Marcom teams to develop and execute on demand creation programmes, including driving the launch and co-ordination of new product offerings. Provide enablers (demos & Marcom material) for product push programmes.
* Develop business relationships to a level that will support Future gaining the 'unfair' advantage through supplier relationship and matrix development.
* Develop tools to track and monitor performance, measure and communicate successes, and drive improvements/product push programmes where needed.
Requirements:
We are looking for an individual with:
* Ideal education to degree level with comprehensive knowledge of electronics and/or electronic distribution across a region or countries.
* Fully au fait with the sales and marketing working practises of Future and EMEA/international distributor.
* Commercially astute with strong credibility, able to win the customer, and develop long-term customer relationship management.
* Able to think strategically and implement tactical plans as required.
* Strong service ethic able to work on own or as core support to others.
* Proactive, adaptable, organised, and multi-tasking achiever.
* Excellent verbal and written communicator and presenter.
About Us:
Headquartered in Montreal and operating in 150 locations in 40 countries around the world, Future Electronics has earned an impressive reputation for providing outstanding service and developing efficient, comprehensive global supply chain solutions.
Our mission is always to Delight the Customer. We commit to maintaining close business partnerships with suppliers and customers, coupled with the strength of our commercial and technical competencies through all stages of the design-production cycle.