Description

What’s the role about?

The Supplier Management team performs a critical role in the Partnership, working collaboratively with internal teams and external suppliers to deliver the customer plan and maximise profit for the Partnership.

As a Supplier Asset Sales Manager working in the Supplier Management profession you will collaborate with various teams, including Trading, Marketing, Shops and Retail teams, whilst also developing close relationships with suppliers to ensure delivery of the customer plan and maximise supplier funding as part of our commercial agreements. Day to day you will lead negotiations with suppliers to ensure we are utilising our physical estate space to maximise profit and return for both JL and Suppliers.

What will you be doing?

• Build relationships with suppliers to maximise supplier funded revenue in shop space

• Align suppliers spend ambition and marketing plans with John Lewis customer plans

• Work closely with Buying teams to identify and prioritise commercial opportunities to invest in JL real estate with suppliers.

• Reviewing rate cards looking for opportunities to drive consistency and increase spend

• Use CI to develop tools and best practice that improves the process for the supplier, drives efficiency and captures more revenue

• Work collaboratively with stakeholder teams to align plans to Category ambitions

What you'll have 

• Strong levels of stakeholder management and evidence of influencing at all levels

• Excellent negotiation skills developed over experience in relevant role

• Strong planning experience with an ability to manage several competing priorities to deliver the best outcome

• An understanding of marketing assets, how to appraise their value and negotiate best price

What else could you bring? 

• Completion of recognised qualification e.g GAP skilled negotiator course would be an advantage

• Experience of working with/in retail space utilization projects 

• Project management experience

Please note: 

• As a business we encourage flexible working. We have a number of different ways to work flexibly, so at your interview feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you. There are no guarantees, however, examples of how our Partners already work flexibly include part-time, job share, home working and compressed hours

• We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we recommend you apply early .

Duties and Responsibilities

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