Softcat
Sales Strategy & Planning Executive
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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 Sales Strategy & Planning team
The Sales Strategy and Planning team is focused on positively improving sales performance, working closely with the Senior Leadership Team and Sales teams to deliver strategic projects improving the experience of our people and customers.
Success. The Softcat Way.
We aim to turn strategy into action by prioritising what matters, supporting the right people, and executing at pace. We connect priorities across Softcat, guide and challenge decisions where needed, and ensure strategy is delivered with purpose, clarity, and impact.
This is a broad and varied role that will require the successful candidate to demonstrate a range of skills, behaviours and habits, including: Proactivity, adaptability, creative problem solving and effective collaboration.
About The Role
As a Sales Strategy & Planning Executive, you will be owning and leading the planning and implementation of strategic and long-term projects across Public Sector and those within the Performance & Progression strategy.
As Sales Strategy & Planning Exe, you'll be responsible for:
- Owning the end-to-end delivery of Public Sector Sales Strategy & Performance and Progression strategy through programme and portfolio management
- Leading high-impact Public Sector and Performance and Progression initiatives across Sales
- Ensuring appropriate governance and performance measures are in place, supporting intelligent business decision making.
- Collaborating and aligning with key Public Sector sales stakeholders and senior sales stakeholders to execute priorities.
- Maintaining cross-functional relationships and stakeholder engagement.
- Innovating and improving, suggesting relevant improvements where practical to positively impact efficiency and performance – using relevant data to steer decision making
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We'd love you to have
- Organisation – Effective project and programme management
- Proactivity and an inquisitive nature
- Adaptive, able to keep track of business changes and react accordingly
- Proficient use of Microsoft Office applications – Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Ability to develop and maintain relationships internally
- Articulate – ability to present information clearly, persuasively and elegantly
- Data acumen – ability to use data to make informed decisions
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:
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- 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.
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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.
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