Marketing Manager (9 Month FTC)

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 Marketing Team

The story of Softcat is one driven by an unprecedented ‘people first' culture that celebrates talent, champions potential, and delivers customer-centric technology solutions that support business ambitions. The marketing function sits at the heart of Softcat's future market expansion and is accountable for partner marketing, sales enablement, communications, events, promotions, digital, campaign and performance marketing.

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.

Create and manage our strategic vendor marketing plans

Reporting to the Senior Marketing Manager, your goal will be to support the overall Softcat strategy of selling more to existing customer and finding more new customers. You will be responsible for managing a team of Partner Marketing Executives and key vendors identified as high market growth potential, to deliver a full range of joint marketing activities.

As a Partner Marketing Manager you'll be responsible for:

• Managing a team of Partner Marketing Executives to support with the execution of the marketing plans for our top vendors
• Direct management of top partners identified as high market growth potential
• Creation of comprehensive, strategic marketing plans that align to our business goals
• Leveraging market research materials, customer and employee insights and other sources, to identify industry trends, needs and opportunities
• Collaborating closely with our Sales. Alliances, Marketing GTM, Service delivery teams and OCTO and to ensure that plans are aligned with core messaging, USP's and opportunity development

We'd love you to have

• Strong marketing experience within a fast-moving reseller channel or distribution environment
• Experience of building annual Marketing plans
• The ability to win stakeholder confidence, applying expertise with credibility and professional authority
• Ability to analyse and interpret performance management data and make recommendations to optimise the effectiveness of marketing activities
• Confidence in collaborating cross-functionally and with multiple vendor partners to bring the portfolio to life

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 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.