At the heart of Sonepar lies a deep-rooted belief anchored in family values. While we operate on a global scale, we remain a family-owned business, cherishing the bond, commitment, and legacy that comes from shared lineage. We believe that the power of connection extends beyond business interactions – it's about creating a sustainable legacy for future generations and ensuring that our impact on the planet is both meaningful and positive.
Our purpose isn't merely to distribute electrical products but to create a world where businesses and communities are empowered through seamless access to vital resources. We envision a future where every business, regardless of its size or location, has equal opportunities to innovate, thrive, and make a positive impact.
Through our vast network spanning over 40 countries, we bring together industry expertise, cutting-edge digital transformation, and a commitment to sustainability. Our digital journey isn't just about adopting new technologies; it's about setting new industry benchmarks and redefining customer experiences.
How will you shape our tomorrow?
For this job creation, join us to bring the digital partnership to the next level! As our Digital Supplier Relations Manager, you’ll be part of the global Vendor relation team, at the heart of our digital transformation, building strong, innovative relationships with selected Strategic Suppliers. Sonepar is committed to delivering an exceptional omnichannel experience to our customers and you play a vital role in achieving this goal.
Your mission: being the single point of contact for the Digital relation with selected Strategic Suppliers, you drive growth through targeted digital initiatives, foster global & local collaboration, and unlock new opportunities by onboarding our Strategic Suppliers into the Sonepar vision for Strategic Suppliers digital integration. You’ll work cross-functionally, influence strategy, build strong and collaborative relationships with the local operations and ensure our suppliers deliver the innovation, quality, and agility our business needs to thrive in our markets.
Why is this role exciting?:
1. You will have an important role to play in supporting Sonepar Transformation with our Strategic Suppliers through several pillars:
2. Orchestration of Experiences enablement
3. Local alignment
4. Product data push
5. Transversal marketing services coordination
6. As a digital account manager, you directly oversee Strategic Suppliers and act as a digital key account manager:
7. You cultivate and maintain robust relationships with the Strategic Suppliers and their digital team.
8. You align both Strategic Suppliers / Sonepar strategies from top management to local execution through structured meetings and events.
9. Ecommerce performance analysis: as a key partner to the Business/ commercial team, you shall be able to understand the real business behind the numbers, and transform the data into actionable insights (Sell-Out, growth, online penetration, online/ offline channels, benchmarks, Ecommerce metrics…).
10. Product Data quality excellence: in a very close collaboration with the experts from the Sonepar Product Data Experience team, you will:
11. Ensure the Strategic Suppliers receive the necessary guidelines and support to deliver the best in class PDQ, aligned with our business priorities.
12. Regularly monitor the PDQ and push the Strategic Suppliers for continuous improvement
13. Coordinate between the Strategic Suppliers and Sonepar global/ local PIM teams
14. Unlock opportunities with local operations, bringing value to all parties.
15. Transversal marketing services: you could be involved in the shaping of new transversal marketing services, leveraging retail media capabilities to coordinate and synchronize marketing campaigns across multiple channels, countries, and teams to deliver unified, consistent, and personalized customer experiences.
16. Drive impactful digital initiatives by connecting global vision with local execution—aligning strategies, activating digital features, fostering collaborative discussions, and energizing a community through regular engagement, that shares best practices and creates real value for local teams on both Sonepar and Suppliers side.
The experience you bring
17. Minimum 5 years professional experience.
18. You have a proven experience in Ecommerce, digital Marketing (retail media…), ideally in the electrical sector, retail, B2B distribution…
19. You are familiar with key ecommerce metrics, follow industry’s best practices, emerging technologies, customer experience strategies, and digital sales accelerators.
20. Experience with Product Data (management, syndication, strategy…) is appreciated.
21. Experience with Sonepar (Spark ecosystem) is a plus.
22. Proficiency in English required (oral & written); French or any additional language is an asset
23. Availability to travel internationally (5%)
📊 Benefits that await you:
The role - Your daily activities will be interesting, stimulating and varied... No two days are alike!
The organisation - You'll be part of the Sonepar family and share the same values!
The culture - You'll be working in an international environment.
The team - Our dynamic, multidisciplinary, open-minded and talented team is eager to welcome additional skills to continue to meet the challenge.
✅ Reimbursement of your monthly or annual transport pass.
✅ Lunch card (CHF 180,- / month)
✅ Reimbursement Private Health insurance (Lamal) up to CHF 5000,- per year
🤝 Recruitment Process:
24. Interview with an HR Member
25. Interview with the manager
26. Interview with SIS President
We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description. Don't hold back because you feel you don't tick every box. At Sonepar, we value your skills, your passion and if your career journey has had remarkable twists and turns, it only adds to your unique story. We ensure we create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcomed and valued for their uniqueness. Regardless of physical abilities, office requirements, gender, sexual orientation, academic backgrounds or other diversity dimensions, every position at Sonepar is open to individuals who share our core values and engagements. We aim to ensure our job listings resonate with everyone and truly represent the diversity we embrace and we are proud to have the GEEIS Label (Gender Equality for European & International Standard).
You are interested in this challenge? Then join and build a better future with us!
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