Senior Category Manager - IT & Telecommunications
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Job description
Our mission relies on a team full of inspiring, customer obsessed people, ande’re looking for a Senior Category Manager with extensive procurement and category management experience to lead our technology sourcing strategy, strengthen supplier performance and deliver greater commercial value across a complex portfolio.
Could that be you? This is an opportunity to own a strategically important spend portfolio, build influential supplier partnerships and drive commercial outcomes that directly support Quickline’s future ambitions. If that sounds like your kind of challenge, we’d love to hear from you.
Here’s why you’ll love this role…
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Take ownership of Quickline’s IT and Telecommunications category strategy, ensuring procurement decisions support our technology roadmap and wider business goals.
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Shape and lead complex sourcing activities, from market analysis and tender exercises through to commercial negotiations and contract award.
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Build strong relationships with strategic suppliers, driving performance, innovation and value across a critical technology portfolio.
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Partner closely with senior leaders across Technology, Cyber Security, Infrastructure and Digital Transformation, becoming a trusted commercial advisor.
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Play a key role in supporting Quickline’s growth ambitions through cost optimisation, risk management and smarter technology investment.
Requirements
Significant experience within procurement and category management, ideally across IT, telecommunications or technology-driven environments.
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A proven track record of leading high-value negotiations and securing commercially beneficial outcomes.
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Strong knowledge of software licensing, SaaS, cloud, telecoms and managed service commercial models.
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Confidence influencing senior stakeholders and building credibility across multiple business functions.
- Commercially minded, analytical and comfortable balancing value creation, supplier performance and risk management in a fast-paced environment., * Category Management
- Communication Skills (Key)
- Contract Management (Practices)
- Negotiation Skills (Dealmaking)
- Procurement Management Titles
Benefits & conditions
Health Cashback Scheme - Can claim back prescription, GP and optician charges, therapy allowance, private outpatient consultations, EAP, 24/7 remote GP service, member discounts.
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25 days annual leave + bank holidays, your birthday, house move and wedding day off.
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Option to buy or sell up to 5 additional days annual leave
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Enhanced Paternity/Maternity/Adoption leave
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Life Assurance
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High Street Shopping Discount Scheme - Holidays, food and drink, insurance, sport, tech, high street, Ikea, M&S, cinema etc.
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Free Parking on site.
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Regular ‘Lunch & Learns’
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Social Events - Summer and End of Year parties etc.
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Core Value Awards - Regular opportunities to win!
About the company
We’re Quickline, and we believe everyone deserves great internet. Whoever you are, wherever you are and whatever you do online - our customers are at the heart of everything we do. So we’re on a mission to provide lightning fast, reliable broadband that reaches the places other providers leave behind.
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