Senior Category Manager - IT & Telecommunications

Quickline; Willerby; Sur place; GBP 70 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Pension 5%/5%

Health Cashback

25 days annual leave

Buy/sell extra leave

Enhanced parental leave

Life Assurance

Discount scheme

Free parking

Lunch & Learns

Social events

Value awards

Résumé du poste

Quickline is seeking a Senior Category Manager to own the IT and Telecommunications category strategy, align procurement with our technology roadmap, and lead high-value sourcing initiatives.

You will shape negotiations, build influential supplier relationships, and work with senior Technology leaders to drive value, risk management and cost optimisation across a complex portfolio.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in procurement and category management across IT/telecoms or technology environments.
• Proven track record of leading high-value negotiations and securing beneficial outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of software licensing, SaaS, cloud, telecoms and managed service commercial models.

Responsabilités

• Own IT and telecommunications category strategy to align with technology roadmap and business goals.
• Lead complex sourcing activities from market analysis to tendering, negotiations and contract awards.
• Build and maintain strategic supplier relationships to drive performance and value across a critical tech portfolio.
• Partner with senior leaders across Technology and Cyber Security to act as a trusted commercial adviser.
• Support growth through cost optimisation, risk management and smarter technology investments.

Connaissances

Procurement

Category Mgmt

Negotiation

Stakeholder Mgmt

Description du poste

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!

Note to agencies -

Quickline have an internal recruitment team. We will not accept unsolicited CVs from any source other than directly from a candidate via our Applicant Tracking System (“ATS”). Any unsolicited CVs sent to Quickline, via the Quickline careers email address, directly to Quickline employees or managers, will be considered Quickline property and Quickline are free to contact those prospective candidates directly with zero financial repercussions. For further information refer to our careers page. Please note: You must have the right to work in the UK in order to be successfully appointed to this role