Vendor Business Manager

**Description**
- **Permanent Full Time Opportunity**:

- ** Hybrid Work Culture (2 days office,3 days home)**:

- ** Base yourself in Sydney, Rosebery**

**We are Ingram Micro**:
It is no surprise that technology powers the planet. But what might surprise you is that Ingram Micro can reach more than 90% of the global population.

By joining us, you make Ingram Micro’s contribution a reality: helping businesses grow, supporting industries from healthcare to education with their technology, or even connecting the world.

**About the Role**:
The** Vendor Business Manager - Palo Alto**

The Vendor Business Manager is responsible for the overall direction and management of their assigned vendor/s. Developing strategies that will achieve profitability and growth targets while owning the P&L ensuring costs are minimized by driving process efficiencies and profit by maximizing on growth strategies.

The vendor business manager acts as the brand ambassador for their vendor to internal stakeholders, providing a specialized consultative service, driving, and maintaining vendor programs, marketing direction, training; review and negotiate terms of vendor contracts and communicate with vendors regarding day-to-day matters; build and maintain positive relationships with vendors and monitor vendor performance.

**Your role will include but not limited to**:

- Accountable for the profitability of the assigned vendor and business segments or projects, ensure vendor target are met.
- Develop and facilitate profitable partnerships and strategic management of the vendor relationship, develop business plan.
- Build and maintain tight relationships and regular contact and relationship with all key vendor personnel.
- Drive business for assigned vendor, understand key initiatives, assisting vendor operations manager with product and markets served.
- Maximising mindshare for assigned vendors architecture segments with both the vendors and general sales team and offering appropriate level of sales support
- Coordination of Ingram Micro - Vendor Marketing Plan
- Responsible for optimizing's GM$ and % margin by product group and the integrity of the pricing data
- Inventory Management & rebates

**What you’ll bring**

A positive and creative attitude with a competitive nature.
- Strategic mindset, passionate, energetic and creative
- Highly autonomous and able to drive change
- Effective communication skills and proven success working with cross functional teams with the ability to build credible stakeholder relationships and engagement
- Results driven, customer focused, accurate and analytical
- Methodical with outstanding organizational and time management skills
- Able to plan and implement marketing plans and achieve business objectives
- Strong Excel/MS Office skills, financial/numeric skills to work with pricing, stock/inventory management and reporting
- Experienced in multiple market sectors, with a strong business acumen
- Ability to thrive within an innovative, fast-paced and competitive environment
- Product management/sales/procurement and marketing positioning experience

**What’s On Offer**:
At Ingram Micro, we treat each other with dignity & respect, providing an environment where you are always encouraged to be yourself. We are a collaborative team who like to challenge the status quo and constantly look for better ways to serve our colleagues & customers. Some of our benefits include:

- Genuine Career Progression Pathways
- Training & Development Opportunities
- Flexible Working Environment
- Competitive Remuneration Package
- Staff Purchase Policy, Benefits Scheme & Birthday Leave
- Wellness programs
- Work from home allowance

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Ingram Micro Inc. is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law.

**If this sounds like something you want to be a part of click “Apply”.