National Supplier Manager

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We are seeking a National Supplier Performance Manager. The National Supplier Performance Manager is responsible for managing our core supplier’s business planning and performance, and maintaining a healthy financial position for Johnson Brothers; while working as a conduit between supplier and our branches across the U.S.

This position can sit in any of the following markets:
Minnesota, North Carolina, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Iowa, Nevada,Texas, Florida (Tampa Area), North Dakota and South Dakota areas.

Job Description:

Oversee Supplier(s) Planning Process:

• Develop tactical overlays to cluster/brand strategy
• Engage Johnson Brothers Leadership during process
• Plan / execute against suggested pricing strategies
• Build target account lists for identified activities
• Plan effective use of POS
• Develop market execution plan
• Including measurable goals by geography, channel, customer, and brand
• Integrate plan to drive Transformational Priorities
• Include brand training where appropriate

Other Duties:

• Plan activity/goals against achieving brand standards
• Lead planning of national/local POS buys with Supplier(s)
• Follow Supplier(s) lead on innovation planning within assigned brands including programming, goal setting, inventory management, selling tools, kickoff meeting, training, tracking, etc.
• Communicate monthly, quarterly, and annual portfolio priorities and key execution metrics by channel, geography, customer and brand across entire selling Johnson Brothers Network to achieve internal alignment
• Manage Budgets:
  Grant/Tactical/Trade $’s/Discounts/LMF
• Identify and propose solutions to competitive pricing opportunities / challenges
• Incorporate “best practices” and other market learning’s across the Network
• Develop and plan against creative selling opportunities
• In depth analysis of activities by channel, geography, customer and brand
• Scorecard Performance across Johnson Brothers Network
• Measure and update against execution plan and continually identify strategic gaps in plan
• Measure monthly progress against achieving brand standards and goals across network
• Manage Supplier(s) scorecard against innovation, on premise & other KPI’s
• Develop business analysis for key accounts
• Use internal tracking of goals including displays, feature ads, pricing, distribution, visibility, accounts sold, menus, drink features, etc. to deliver above
• Lead on identified Investment Activities
• Locally created POS / tactical spends / pricing
• Assist Supplier(s) in management of supplier(s) programming
• National POS / sampling / local media / etc.
• Monitor and recap against pricing strategies / programs
• Assess Supplier(s), Brand and Category health using syndicated data; including Nielsen, IRI, DISCUS, Etc.
• Overall Management of profitability for Supplier and Distributor alike
• Assess and monitor spend against budgets to identify risk and/or opportunities
• Run standard and other reports for business needs
• Coordinate mid-month and end of month business reviews across channels with Supplier(s) Leadership
• Coordinate quarterly business reviews and planning meetings with Supplier(s) Leadership
• Collaborates with Supplier to build comprehensive training programs, designed to educate an enhance Johnson Brothers Sales personnel capabilities
• Works in conjunction with Corporate Training Platform
• Ensures all Supplier and Johnson Brothers Corporate Compliance measures are in place and being followed pertaining to designated portfolio(s)
• Work with Purchasing Department to ensure contractual obligations and asks are being adhered to
• In conjunction, maintaining healthy Inventory levels for internal purposes
• Oversight to Branch forecasting using Logility
• Develops influential relationships with local market sales leaders, including Regional Presidents, GM’s, Sales Managers, Brand…