Senior Category Manager - IT & Telecommunications

Quickline Communications; Willerby; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Health cashback

Leave - 25 days

Leave buy/sell

Parental leave

Life assurance

Discount scheme

Free parking

Lunch & Learn

Social events

Awards program

Job summary

Quickline Communications in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Category Manager for IT & Telecommunications to lead the technology sourcing strategy and supplier performance across a complex portfolio.

You will own the category roadmap, conduct market analyses, run tender exercises and negotiate contracts, partnering with senior stakeholders to optimise value and drive commercial outcomes aligned with Quickline's growth ambitions.

Qualifications

• Extensive procurement and category management experience in IT/telecoms or technology environments.
• Proven track record of leading high-value negotiations and contracts.
• Strong ability to influence senior stakeholders and build credibility across functions.

Responsibilities

• Own IT and Telecommunications category strategy and procurement roadmap.
• Lead market analyses, tenders, negotiations and contract awards.
• Build strategic supplier partnerships to drive performance and value.
• Collaborate with Technology, Cyber Security and Digital teams to align commercial strategy.

Skills

Procurement

Category Management

IT & Telecom

Stakeholder Influence

Tools

Software licensing

SaaS

Cloud services

Job description

Senior Category Manager - IT & Telecommunications

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

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