Supplier Management Specialist / Asst/Product Manager

Overview

Supplier professional focused on the strategic leadership and relationship of company suppliers to achieve the best financial performance and relationship with assigned product lines.

What you'll do

• Direct and manage the supplier business plan and implementation process throughout the organization, leveraging supplier strengths and resources on behalf of the supplier and communicating supplier benefits to the company.
• Align goals and objectives of the supplier with the company to ensure mutual goals and objectives are achieved.
• Determine, monitor and recommend plans for the supplier-company business relationship on a tactical and strategic level.
• Participate in supplier business reviews, providing appropriate data and engaging in resolving issues.
• Identify and drive new supplier opportunities, with particular emphasis on developing new services that blend unique supplier resource/capability with service/capability to create a unique value proposition.
• Support cross-functional communication with the company's product groups in price negotiations and market knowledge.
• Manage activities and programs that drive the supplier's pro-forma performance in an effort to achieve Avnet's financial goals.
• Perform analysis and reporting of various program impacts for the supplier.
• Manage forecasting pipeline requirements and rebate projections.
• Other duties as assigned.

What you'll need

• Typically 8+ years of experience with a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience from which comparable knowledge and job skills can be obtained.
• Mastery knowledge of industry best practices and disciplines.
• Acts as a subject matter expert within the organization and contributes to the development of new concepts, techniques and standards.
• Develops solutions to highly complex and uniquely challenging situations, requiring extensive evaluation of alternatives and variables.
• Works independently toward long-range goals and objectives, often self-initiating assignments using independent judgment and discretion.
• May act as informal team lead and/or coach less experienced team members.
• Serves as consultant to management and/or internal/external spokesperson for the organization on major initiatives related to policies, plans and long-range objectives.

Details

• Actions may impact the organization and its reputation; effects of erroneous decisions may be long-lasting and require the expenditure of extensive additional resources.