Would you like to continue your career in a supportive, collaborative and innovative company?
Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team?
Join our Communications 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. As such, employee engagement, high knowledge share, productivity and creative collaboration sit at the heart of what will drive future growth and both employee and customer satisfaction.
Success. The Softcat Way.
Softcat is a £1billion+ 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.
Lead our Communications team
This is a senior role responsible for leading the strategy, planning, and delivery of internal and external communications. This role plays a critical part in shaping company-wide messaging, protecting and evolving brand voice, and ensuring communications activity drives measurable impact.
As a Communications Manager, you will be a senior member of Softcat's Marketing department, with responsibility across all areas of communications. You will work closely with senior stakeholders across the business, providing expert guidance and owning the end-to-end delivery of high-impact communications initiatives.
As Communications Manager, you'll be responsible for:
- Deliver and drive the communications strategy, ensuring alignment with wider business and marketing objectives.
- Lead the planning and execution of integrated internal and external communications campaigns, from concept through to delivery and evaluation.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, providing guidance on messaging, tone of voice, positioning, and communications approach.
- Oversee the creation of high-quality content across all channels, ensuring consistency, clarity, and alignment with brand and business priorities.
- Monitor, analyse, and report on communications performance, using data and insights to optimise strategy and demonstrate impact.
- Manage and prioritise complex communications requests, taking ownership of high-profile or business-critical activity.
- Manage and prioritise complex communications requests, taking ownership of high-profile or business-critical activity.
- Act as leadership within the Communications team, supporting best practices and contributing to overall team performance with line management responsibility.
- Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices, using insights to inform communications strategy and recommend improvements.
We'd love you to have
- Deliver and drive the communications strategy, ensuring alignment with wider business and marketing objectives.
- Lead the planning and execution of integrated internal and external communications campaigns, from concept through to delivery and evaluation.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, providing guidance on messaging, tone of voice, positioning, and communications approach.
- Oversee the creation of high-quality content across all channels, ensuring consistency, clarity, and alignment with brand and business priorities.
- Monitor, analyse, and report on communications performance, using data and insights to optimise strategy and demonstrate impact.
- Manage and prioritise complex communications requests, taking ownership of high-profile or business-critical activity.
- Manage and prioritise complex communications requests, taking ownership of high-profile or business-critical activity.
- Act as leadership within the Communications team, supporting best practices and contributing to overall team performance with line management responsibility.
- Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices, using insights to inform communications strategy and recommend improvements.
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.
