EMEA Supplier Growth & Partnerships Lead

Future Electronics; Fatih; On-site; TRY 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Future Electronics is seeking an EMEA Supplier Development Manager to drive supplier engagement, shape the business plan, and coordinate with sales, marketing and engineering from Istanbul. The role focuses on demand creation with NPI and marcom activities to strengthen supplier partnerships.

You will lead initiatives across marketing, engineering and sales, develop programs with suppliers, and monitor performance to achieve growth targets for the EMEA region.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Hold principal 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.

Skills

Electronics knowledge

Sales & marketing familiarity

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Proactive/organised

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Future Electronics is seeking an EMEA Supplier Development Manager to drive supplier engagement, shape the business plan, and coordinate with sales, marketing and engineering from Istanbul. The role focuses on demand creation with NPI and marcom activities to strengthen supplier partnerships.

You will lead initiatives across marketing, engineering and sales, develop programs with suppliers, and monitor performance to achieve growth targets for the EMEA region.