About this role
About the Role Avnet seeks a supplier-focused professional to lead and manage supplier relationships to achieve strong financial performance and alignment with assigned product lines. The role emphasizes strategic collaboration with suppliers, forecasting, and cross-functional coordination to maximize value for Avnet and its suppliers. What You'll Do
- Directs and manages the supplier business plan and implementation process throughout the organization leveraging supplier strengths and resources on behalf of the supplier and communicating supplier benefits to the company.
- Aligns goals and objectives of supplier with the company to ensure mutual goals and objectives are achieved.
- Determines, monitors and recommends plans for the supplier, company business relationship on a tactical and strategic level.
- Participates in supplier business reviews providing appropriate data and engaging in resolving issues.
- Identifies and drives new supplier opportunities with particular emphasis on the development of new services that blend unique supplier resource/capability along with service/capability to create a unique value proposition.
- Supports cross functional communication with the company's product groups in price negotiations and market knowledge.
- Responsible for the management of activities and programs that will drive the supplier’s pro-forma performance in an effort to achieve Avnet's financial goals.
- Performs analysis and reports of various program impact for the supplier.
- Manages forecasting pipeline requirements and rebate projections.
- Other duties as assigned.