Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive, energetic and innovative company?

Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team?

Please note this role is a 12 month secondment

About the Team

The Manchester Office is a fast growing, multi-facetted, large office. It currently consists over 550 aligned people, 110+ of those being in corporate sales, with the majority of others being a mixture of public sector sales, Sales support and internals and specialist and services divisions. The collaboration between all departments is a key driver for the success of the office and the culture currently epitomises the one team mentality. There is a strong senior leadership group spanning all departments and some high potential candidates coming through from a corporate sales perspective. 

 

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.

Your Role

As a support for the Sales Manager in the Manchester Office, you'll be responsible for supporting the Sales Manager in delivering strong performance against budget and employee satisfaction of teams within Manchester. To help achieve this you'll be responsible for co-ordinating, supporting and planning various tasks, meetings and data which supports the sales manager on a daily basis.

What you'll be doing

People and Culture

• Provide Data to help and support quarterly pulse surveys

• Support with the data from the annual employee survey results and support with presenting to wider management.

• Responsible for the management of the email pots and ensuring the correct progression groups are in the correct group.

• Responsible for creating and sharing the STL and TL meeting agenda

• Responsible for taking minutes and actions from STL meetings and TL meetings, and sharing.

• Help build sales leagues and share on email where necessary

• Gather sentiment on GTM's and training.

• Monthly collection of the forecast tool, analyse and share with STL's.

• Quarterly Look back/Look forward presentations

• Support and help organise annual Kick off presentation

• Gather data, and create power point for weekly sales meeting

• Diary management for regular 1:1's with direct reports and relevant departments.

• Support with account distribution

• Help co-ordinate diary time with Key Vendors

• Help track measurables of any key incentives we are running – local BDR data, new business incentive, Microsoft CSP incentive etc

Office

• Support Mover and Joiner requests

• Support STL/TL's with arranging Incentives - Killerboard, Place to win a space, new business –

• New start welcome lunches 

• Helping with company card/expenses

• Helping organising with in person figures

Customers & Employee Events

• Support and organise customer events, such as customer Golf days.

 What we need from you

• Highly organised

• Self motivated

• Able to work in a high paced environment

• Take the initiative to lead on tasks.

• Ability to understand Data

• The appetite to learn and take on new challenges

• Proactive and highly driven individual

• Strong organisational and communications skills

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 2days working from home
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day
• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs

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 processor 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.