Supplier Manager
Possible
Sponsorship likelihood
Only if it's SOC 1134
Not disclosed
Salary
Not disclosed by employer
Ineligible
Going rate
Occupation not currently eligible
This role may qualify, but only under another code
Our best guess, SOC 3551, is not on the eligible-occupation list. The job could also be SOC 1134, which is on it, so we rate it Possible at most. Ask RS Group Plc what the duties are.
We pick the code from the advert's text, so it is our best guess, not the employer's. Each code it could be has its own likelihood:
- Ineligible 3551 (Buyers and procurement officers) · 65% match
- Possible 1134 (Purchasing managers and directors) · 23% match
- Possible 3556 (Sales accounts and business development managers) · 7% match
About the role
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 primary activity 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?
If you have the following skills and experience, we want to hear from you:
- 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
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.
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Where this offer sits in the market
Buyers and procurement officers (SOC 3551) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~66k in sample- Middle half £30,836–47,164
- Median £36,920
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