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

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

Join our Commercial Operations Program Team

The Commercial Operations Program team at Softcat is the powerhouse behind the successful delivery of vendor programmes. They will evaluate and ensure that each programme not only aligns with strategic objectives but also brings tangible value to customers and impacts Softcat positively. With a keen focus on governance, the team effectively manages interconnected projects, guaranteeing that programme execution meets the highest quality standards. They are adept at resource allocation, risk mitigation, and financial management, all while providing detailed reports to stakeholders. Their commitment to continuous improvement and gap analysis drives innovation, making recommendations that enhance vendor programme effectiveness. Programmes looked after by this team will include, but are not limited to; large investment agreements, end customer funding, partner competencies / specialisations & the Softcat Vendor Framework.

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.

Driving Vendor Excellence & ensuring Effective Framework Utilization and Scalable Success

As the Vendor Framework Programme Manager, you will develop and maintain Softcat's vendor framework, ensuring effective governance. You will be responsible for evaluating the framework's suitability and importance, collaborating with various teams for successful utilization and reporting, and building processes for consistency and scalability.

As a Vendor Framework Programme Manager, you'll be responsible for:

• Summarizing key benefits and complexities to support evaluation of vendor contribution and access
• Regular reporting to senior stakeholders and leading QBRs for framework development
• Adhering to governance, managing execution, ensuring quality, allocating resources, mitigating risks, and providing regular status reports
• Overseeing budget, ensuring financial objectives are met, and assessing profitability
• Improving processes through innovation, identifying gaps, and making recommendations to relevant teams

We'd love you to have

• Proven experience in programme qualification and management within technology or sales is essential
• Strong leadership and success review skills
• Analytical skills for reporting and identifying improvement areas
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
• Strategic thinking in risk assessment, resource allocation, and commerciality

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 the times you start and finish during the day
• 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/