In EMEA Product & Supplier Management, across all categories and market P&SM teams, there are common commercial processes with significant opportunities for increased technology enabled standardization and optimization. The Digital Product & Process Owner is accountable for developing and owning products and applications which enables and drives increased commercial excellence and efficiency across the commercial category teams. This will include but not be limited to the development of a Supplier Relationship Management solution and process, as well as standardising our approach to developing, executing and tracking impact of our category and supplier strategies. In addition to working with the Senior Product owner on applications to introduce and maintain the solutions required to achieve their change roadmap. Through this responsibility, they are directly facilitating our range expansion and acquisition of high value customer strategic pillars. For their product and domain, the Product Owner has ultimate accountability for getting the right stuff done and ensuring the business understands what, how and why. This includes people and business management of a focused team of developers to enable agile and accelerated delivery of agreed product roadmaps.
Hybrid – office attendance is Project dependant.
What you’ll be doing:
- Standardise Category and Supplier Strategy / Plan technology and process
- Establish customer needs for your product domain.
- Establish the role of your product domain in achieving company and category needs and create its long-term strategy for accomplishing these.
- Develop the product roadmap required to holistically deliver that strategy.
- Define the Objectives and KPIs for your product domain.
- Own, drive and oversee the development of your product to achieve the outcomes our customer’s needs.
- Contract Management.
About you:
- Understanding of the basics of software development.
- Should be obsessively data driven in their decision making and effortlessly assess processes at a macro and micro level.
- Confidently defining how to accurately measure success.
- Effectively able to communicate at all levels. While all decisions should be led by the data, not all communications should and demonstrable ability to bring challenging stakeholders on side is vital.
- Customer focus – Should hold the customer needs as sacrosanct and recognise the difference between these needs and what is asked for, and crucially, able to demonstrate bringing people on the journey with you.
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 800,000 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 over 9000 employees worldwide – and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.
Rewards
At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company (Annual Bonus, Private Medical Cover, Life Assurance, Generous Pension) we’ve just introduced several new Family Friendly Policies including:
- Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma.
- Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members.
- Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause.
- Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues.
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