Would you like to shape strategic vendor partnerships in a market-leading business?
Do you enjoy driving growth through collaboration and innovation?

Join our Alliances team

The Alliances team at Softcat drives strategic vendor success with sharp focus and collaborative expertise. They're the architects of our vendor strategy, working seamlessly across functions to ensure we have the right alignments to the right vendors to support our technology proposition. Working diligently with our vendors they will ensure that we have the right strategic vision that aligns to our own goals and objective, reviewing market opportunities and innovating to ensure Softcat, alongside our vendors stay as market leaders.

Success. The Softcat Way.
It's an exciting time to be at Softcat, one of the UK's most successful technology solutions businesses. We help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first. We've reached the £1 billion+ pa revenue milestone, opened our first office outside the UK and picked up a series of industry awards. We've got even bigger plans for the future. So, if you share our drive and ambition, get ready to achieve more from your career.

Drive strategic Cisco partnership growth

As a Cisco Alliance Manager you will lead and execute the strategic vision for Cisco across Workspace and hybrid platforms. You will collaborate across the business and with Cisco to deliver shared objectives, build relationships, and identify new opportunities.

As Cisco Alliance Manager, you'll be responsible for:

Creating, reviewing, and executing Joint Business Plans with key stakeholders
Supporting and guiding internal and external sales pipelines
Leading Quarterly Business Reviews and delivering engaging presentations
Building strong relationships across internal teams and external Cisco stakeholders
Driving go-to-market initiatives, sales enablement, and partnership opportunities

We'd love you to have:

Proven experience in partnership or vendor management
Strong leadership and presentation skills with QBR experience
Relevant sales or technical certifications
Excellent collaboration and relationship-building abilities
Strong analytical skills for reporting and performance insights

We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!

Work in a way that works for you
We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home
Working flexible hours – flexing start and finish times
Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs

Working with us

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.

Join us

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence. You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/

Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.