AddressRS Australia and New Zealand business reports into Asia Pacific as a region with a distribution centre in Sydney stocking >55,000 products. We have sales teams in the capital cities of ANZ and we continue to expand warehousing in Auckland and Western Australia to support our growing customer base
ABOUT THIS ROLE
To manage the sourcing of NCO (Non-Core Offer) products and services, through best in class sourcing practices, strong commercial effectiveness, and positive/collaborative working relationships with both external Vendors and key stakeholders internal to RS Group.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Manage the sourcing and procurement of NCO articles and services to provide the required level of profitability and service to support fulfilment of our Sales and customer strategy.
- Apply commercial acumen to determine appropriate response to NCO enquiries.
- Create and maintain accurate NCO article data.
- Drive improved and increased efficiency of our NCO processes through application of CI based approach.
- Develop strong vendor relationships and manage stakeholders to ensure integration with the business area.
- Negotiate with vendors on product commercial terms and service scope of work
- Carry out procurement of NCO articles and services as per company policy and procedures using the ERP system.
- Where and when appropriate, drive Vendor delivery performance and resolve non conformance issues enabling efficiency of Inbound Logistics processes.
- Collaborate with relevant Sales & Market teams to interpret requirements and enable a profitable NCO response.
- Provide relevant insight, data, and input to the Product teams to enable and exploit Vendor commercial opportunities across the core and non-core product range.
- Identify and implement new Vendors to support NCO article sourcing needs.
- Maintain effective communications of sourcing and supplier delivery updates to internal stakeholders likes Sales, Finance and Logistics teams
Key Skills Required For Role
- Proven purchasing / procurement experience
- Knowledge and experience of managing multiple/varied sourcing requests
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Effective commercial and decision making skills which can interpret and communicate financial impact
- Knowledge of our external market place (customers, competitors & suppliers)
- Knowledge and experience of Vendor management processes and practice.
- Ability to use knowledge and experience of external best practice to drive a continuous improvement based approach
