Operational Executive

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 Strategic Sourcing Team

The Strategic Sourcing Team are responsible for building and maintaining strong and trusted relationships with our suppliers to enable us to strategically source products to fulfil customer demand. The team analyse requirements to onboard new suppliers and negotiate commercials to ensure Softcat are receiving favourable pricing and service. External Supplier relationships are key to our success, and we host quarterly supplier reviews to ensure targets are being met. Internally we work alongside many other departments such as Procurement, Customer Services, Finance, Legal, Vendor Alliances and Sales which puts us at the centre of the Business Operations Department.

Success. The Softcat Way.

There's a uniqueness to Softcat - what we do, how we do it and why we do it. That's because we help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first. We give everyone the chance to step up and show how much they can achieve. We succeed when all our people succeed.

Be part of a team that enables business growth

This fast-paced role will give you an insight to how the IT Supply Chain operates and how supplier and vendor relationships are key to every part of our business. You will work with a wide variety of contacts both externally and internally across many different areas of the business giving you a full understanding of the IT reseller channel as well as an insight into Softcat's success as a business.

As a Strategic Sourcing Executive you'll be responsible for:

• Commercial responsibility - Responsible for tracking and collecting Softcat rebates to ensure they are accurate and paid on time
• Onboarding New Suppliers - Assessing the requirements for onboarding new suppliers followed by full onboarding process once an application is approved
• Reporting - Analyse procurement trends utilising internal reporting
• Drive best practises within the business around preferred supplier routes
• Managing a busy inbox responding supporting Softcat's internal sales team
• Working with UK and Multi-National supply chains

We'd love you to have

• Experience in Strategic Sourcing, Procurement or Operational roles
• Knowledge or experience of the IT channel is an advantage
• Confident at building relationship with strong written and verbal communication skills
• Highly organised and process driven
• Proven negotiation skills
• Ability to run reports and analyse data using Excel

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 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

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.