Success. The Softcat Way.
Softcat is a £multi billion+ technology solutions business and trusted partner to names like Apple, Microsoft and Adobe. Offering a growing portfolio of services including software licensing, cyber security and IT infrastructure, we give our technical teams the tools and support to make exciting things happen. This is where to achieve more for your career.
Join our Advisory Services team!
Our Advisory Services function advise organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technologies, optimising their performance, and help them in managing their end to end IT services against business needs. In doing this we help the leaders (CxO's) within our customers maximise productivity and realise the business value of IT for internal and external users.
Advisory Services has 3 distinct focusses:
- Industry / Vertical Advisory
- Billable Advisory / Consultancy
As an Enterprise Technologist you will be working predominantly with our most Large and Complex customers to help them drive largescale technology transformations. Working alongside Softcat's technology sales specialists, Enterprise Architecture team and liaising with our Office of the CTO colleagues you will be one of our most senior Technology Evangelists for Cyber Security. The role is 100% focussed on pre-sales engagements and enablement for our largest customers, providing a deep level of understanding of our technology propositions within the context of a customer's requirement or problem statement. Enterprise Technologists are expected to drive sales growth within the aligned technology proposition.
As Enterprise Technologist - Cyber, you'll be responsible for:
- Attend customer opportunity and strategy meetings
- Focus on and directly influence the sales growth of Cyber Security
- Engage at senior level to influence customer security strategy and become a trusted advisor
- Lead the technical sales teams within the account team, ensuring the solutions proposed are fit for purpose and provide good value
- Function as a proactive member of the relevant Sector/Account leadership teams
- Provide leadership input into transformational sales opportunities within accounts
We'd love you to have
- Specific knowledge in Cyber Security at a senior level i.e. CISO, Security Architect, Senior Sales Engineer, Architecture etc and/or Consultancy and/or CISO and/or CTO and/or CIO level experience within Cyber Security
- To represent Softcat and the Advisory team by embodying the values of the business and meeting the needs of the role profile (attached)
- Experience at leading major largescale transformational programmes
- Relationship focused; experience of building relationships at the highest levels within enterprise customers, becoming a trusted advisor on a technology basis
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
- 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.
