Supplier Development Manager

Looking for a challenging new role and career development as a Supplier Development Manager? If the answer is yes, then Future Electronics wants to hear from you! We are currently looking to employ a Supplier Development Manager to join our EMEA team at our Head Quarters in Egham, Surrey.

We know our employees are what make us great, that's why we constantly develop and motivate our talent with world class organizational development to learn and achieve our goals together. Successful applicants will gain a highly competitive salary, full training and a range of benefits including:

• Private Medical
• On Site restaurant
• Life Insurance
• Career Development and Progression
• Social Club and Events
• Plus, many more

Job Outline: The prime 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. This will require driving a demand creation strategy with NPI and marcom activities on the key technologies of their suppliers. The SDM is the primary interface and facilitator to relationships between all key personnel at the suppliers and Future Electronics. The SDM will be expected to create the business plan, ensuring alignment with sales, marketing, engineering, the supplier and drive the execution with all associated parties. The primary metrics for success will be achieving the sales, demand creation and network share metrics set within the business plan.

What the role involves:

• Hold principle accountability for success with assigned focus suppliers. Act as the primary lead within Future for the focus suppliers and ensure proactive alignment of distribution and market segment strategy.
• 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.

Do you have:

• Ideally educated 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: 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. Offering the industry’s highest level of overall service, including customer-specific programs and processes, and worldwide e-commerce support, the company’s mission is always to Delight the Customer®. The company’s success is largely built upon its commitment to maintain close business partnerships with suppliers and customers, coupled with the strength of its commercial and technical competencies through all stages of the design-production cycle.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: We are committed to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. We recruit the ‘best person for the job’ regardless of age, race, colour, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability creating an inclusive working environment and culture for all our employees.