The Role
Manage a portfolio of strategic suppliers, analyze market conditions, negotiate prices, and drive supplier relationships while monitoring product opportunities and communicating updates.
Summary Generated by Built In
About the role:Your key responsibilities will be to manage an assigned portfolio of strategic suppliers across the Brenntag UK & Ire organisation, which will involve gathering data on, analyse, and communicate market conditions for the allocated products.Also:
- Establish and build working relationships with suppliers and develop new relationships when necessary.
- Travel will be required to customers, suppliers, industry events.
- Defining and negotiating the best prices and support from the supplier base.
- Effectively manage specific supply scenarios such as: FM’s, product shortages, allocations, manufacturing issues. Engagement with the wider business is key.
- Seek new market and product opportunities.
- Completion of reports on a monthly, quarterly basis for the relevant stakeholders within the business, such as commercial reports and presentations.
- Responsible for the delivery of annual Gross Profit. Manage and support on stock holding and working capital.
- Strong communication and persuasion skills for implementing strategies.
- Monitor, evaluate and clearly communicate on Market dynamics and product opportunities.
- Collaborating with the sales team to drive the existing supplier relationships forward and expand them where appropriate.
- Deliver and present the necessary product training and commercial updates when required.
Skills Required
- Experience in chemical distribution
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The Company
What We Do
We are the global market leader in full-line range of chemical & ingredient products and value-added services. Our more than 17,500 employees provide tailor-made application, marketing and supply chain solutions. Our full-line portfolio comprises specialty and industrial chemicals and ingredients of a world-class supplier base. Building on our long-standing experience, unmatched global reach and local excellence, we work closely alongside our partners to make their business more successful. We operate a unique global network with about 600 locations in 72 countries.
