Senior Category Manager - IT & Telecommunications

Quickline; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Private health support

Annual leave

Birthday leave

Life assurance

Staff discounts

Free on-site parking

Training & events

Company social events

Job summary

Quickline is seeking a Senior Category Manager to lead our IT and Telecommunications procurement strategy. You will own complex sourcing, manage supplier performance, negotiate contracts, and partner with senior leaders to drive commercial value across a strategic technology portfolio.

The role requires extensive category management experience, strong negotiation skills and a track record of influencing stakeholders in fast-paced environments.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in procurement and category management, across IT/telecom environments.
• Proven track record of leading high-value negotiations with favorable commercial outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of software licensing, SaaS, cloud, telecoms and managed services models.
• Confident in influencing senior stakeholders and building credibility across functions.
• Commercially minded, analytical, balancing value creation with risk management.

Responsibilities

• Own IT and Telecommunications category strategy to align with technology roadmap and business goals.
• Lead complex sourcing activities from market analysis to tendering and contract awards.
• Build relationships with strategic suppliers to drive performance and value.
• Partner with senior leaders across Technology, Cyber Security and Digital Transformation.
• Support growth through cost optimisation, smarter technology investments and risk management.

Skills

Procurement strategy

Category management

IT & telecom procurement

Negotiations

Stakeholder influence

Job description

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.

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…

• Take ownership of Quickline’s IT and Telecommunications category strategy, ensuring procurement decisions support our technology roadmap and wider business goals.
• Shape and lead complex sourcing activities, from market analysis and tender exercises through to commercial negotiations and contract award.
• Build strong relationships with strategic suppliers, driving performance, innovation and value across a critical technology portfolio.
• Partner closely with senior leaders across Technology, Cyber Security, Infrastructure and Digital Transformation, becoming a trusted commercial advisor.
• Play a key role in supporting Quickline's growth ambitions through cost optimisation, risk management and smarter technology investment.

Here’s why you’ll be great in this role…

• Significant experience within procurement and category management, ideally across IT, telecommunications or technology-driven environments.
• A proven track record of leading high-value negotiations and securing commercially beneficial outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of software licensing, SaaS, cloud, telecoms and managed service commercial models.
• 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.

The Benefits…

• Pension – 5% employer / 5% employee contribution.
• Health Cashback Scheme – Can claim back prescription, GP and optician charges, therapy allowance, private outpatient consultations, EAP, 24/7 remote GP service, member discounts.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, your birthday, house move and wedding day off.
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 additional days annual leave
• Enhanced Paternity/Maternity/Adoption leave
• Life Assurance
• High Street Shopping Discount Scheme - Holidays, food and drink, insurance, sport, tech, high street, Ikea, M&S, cinema etc.
• Free Parking on site.
• Regular ‘Lunch & Learns’
• Social Events – Summer and End of Year parties etc.
• Core Value Awards - Regular opportunities to win!

Please note: You must have the right to work in the UK in order to be successfully appointed to this role.