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About the Role
Managing a team of 20 NPI and data governance professionals, this role provides strategic and operational oversight to ensure efficient supplier data onboarding and guide cross-functional system, process, and data model requirements. The focus is on continuous improvement to accelerate product speed to market and enhance product growth capability.
Responsibilities
- Lead business transformation to improve supplier product onboarding using digital technology for automated product introduction processes.
- Proactively manage the product lifecycle from introduction to discontinuation.
- Ensure data governance and accurate product data to protect customers and minimize business risk, supporting all channels to market.
- Implement automation and digital solutions for scalable growth of the RS product range while reducing cost to serve.
- Reduce time to market to under 7 days, ensuring market-leading launch plans and high-quality data/content standards.
- Drive continuous improvement in product launch and lifecycle management using data and insights to manage stakeholder performance and input quality.
- Lead and develop a high-performing team and foster a continuous improvement culture.
- Collaborate with solutions architecture and IT to deliver a flexible, to-be technical architecture for product introduction and maintenance.
- Provide thought leadership for content briefing, standards management, and acquisition capability.
- Lead understanding of NPI cost to serve and its net performance against category and market strategies.
Requirements
- High technical competence with extensive digital know-how.
- Knowledge of enterprise-level Content systems (PIM, DAM, CMS, and ERP).
- Strong leadership capability and experience in large-scale business change and transformation.
- Proven track record of process design and re-engineering.
- Excellent strategic thinking capability and ability to execute plans through teams and third-party partners.
- Experience managing large offshore partners and supplier performance using KPIs.
- Experience leading QBR processes.
- Ability to work proactively and collaboratively with diverse internal and external global stakeholders.
- Strong analytical and data-driven mindset.
- Excellent knowledge of continuous improvement methodology and application.
- Budget responsibility, including managing overhead costs and multi-million pound NPI sales and customer views.
Skills
- Digital technology
- Product lifecycle management
- Data governance
- Automation
- Digital solutions
- Continuous improvement
- Stakeholder management
- Team leadership
- Solutions architecture
- Content strategy
- Thought leadership
- Content briefing
- Standards management
- Acquisition capability
- Cost to serve analysis
- PIM
- DAM
- CMS
- ERP
- Business transformation
- Process design
- Process re-engineering
- Strategic thinking
- KPI management
- QBR process
- Collaboration
- Analytical skills
- Data-driven decision making
Location
- Manchester
- Corby
- London Kings Cross
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Extensive digital know how
- Strong leadership capability
- Experience of large-scale business change and transformation
- Proven track record of process design and process re-engineering
- Expell Bring rience of managing large offshore partners
About the Company
- RS is a global product and service solutions provider helping industrial customers operate more efficiently and sustainably.
- Operates in 33 markets, supporting around one million customers worldwide with over 875,000 stocked products and access to over five million additional products.
- Offers a range of service solutions designed to help businesses thrive.
- Values: We are one team, We deliver brilliantly, We do the right thing, and We make every day better.