Supplier Manager

RS UK & Ireland; Corby; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

RS Group is seeking a Supplier Manager to build strong supplier relationships, negotiate terms, and drive value across our PPE and related categories. The role emphasizes collaboration with sales, cross-functional teamwork, and strategic supplier performance improvements.

You will contribute to cost savings and ensure supplier partnerships align with RS Group’s growth objectives in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in supplier/account or category management.
• Strong business planning and execution capabilities.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Meet with suppliers and develop partnerships to become first choice for strategic suppliers.
• Engage with the sales team and visit customers as part of the role.
• Negotiate commercial terms and pricing to deliver profitable growth for the category.

Skills

Supplier management

Relationship management

Commercial acumen

Excel & data analysis

Tools

Excel

Data analysis tools

Job description

Location: Hybrid at either Corby/Melton/Manchester We have an exciting opportunity here at RS for an ambitious individual to join our award-winning innovative company as a Supplier manager. This is a new role that will support our PPE offereing a side of our business who are experiencing a period of growth currently.

Job role: Supplier Manager Location: Hybrid at either Corby/Melton/Manchester We have an exciting opportunity here at RS for an ambitious individual to join our award-winning innovative company as a Supplier manager. This is a new role that will support our PPE offereing a side of our business who are experiencing a period of growth currently.

What you will be doing:

This is a critical role for our organisation where your primaryactivity will be meeting with suppliers and developing partnerships to become first choice for our defined strategic suppliers. There should be strong engagement with the sales community, with regular customer visits being a component of the role. Delivering commercial benefit from ongoing review of supplier pricing agreements, commercial term negotiations and gaining price support for specific customers / opportunities are also critical activities to contribute towards achieving the required profitable growth ambitions within the category.

What do I need to be successful?

• Successful track record in supplier/account or category management
• Business planning and execution capability
• A collaborative team player across a business with fast moving, customer driven markets
• Successful supplier relationship management
• Ability to work cross functionally as well as cross culturally as part of a wider global team
• Demonstrates an excellent understanding of, and the ability to articulate the RS Value Proposition
• Strong commercial acumen and broad communication skills
• Positive can-do attitude, takes ownership and very results oriented
• Outstanding communication and influencing skills
• Change Management experience
• Understanding of marketing, purchasing and inventory control
• Operational problem solver and good process management capability
• Excellent negotiation abilities
• Develop and implement category strategies aligned to business objectives
• Deliver sales, margin, and cost-saving targets
• Identify risks and opportunities to continuously improve category performance
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Proficiency in Excel and data analysis tools

We are RS Group.

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.