Category Manager

Location: UK - London, UK - Hatfield | Job-ID: 200844 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Others

If you’re a great collaborator with a superb track record then join our highly motivated and industry leading Group Partner Management team as a Category manager. 
Based in the Hatfield Head office or London with the option for hybrid home working with everything in place for you to realise your ambitions in this growing industry.

We’ve become the leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services by being open, upfront and straightforward. As a Category Manager at Computacenter you will be responsible for Developing and creating a deep understanding of vendor requirements and delivering a commercially focused strategic sourcing function.

What you will be doing

• Developing and creating a deep understanding of vendor requirements and delivering a commercially focused strategic sourcing function 
• Promoting Computacenter (CC) as the preferred route to market for our vendors and reverse selling CC’s capabilities into vendor partners
• Engaging with stakeholders both within CC and externally to understand requirements and delivering commercial solutions and capabilities to meet these needs 
• Developing and owning commercial programmes with vendors and building strategies to maximise the commercial benefit for CC from these programmes and ensuring CC compliance with vendor programs
• Managing vendor accreditation programmes 
• Facilitating the creation of solutions between Sales and Vendors, shaping and negotiating large, complex opportunities
• Managing and driving the performance of your team and our partners to deliver CC objectives
• Facilitating the development of joint partnership between CC and vendors
• As a Category Manager you will have responsibility for the networking lines of business and Vendor Partners within the Partner Management organisation, personnel responsibility for the Partner Managers, and management of relevant commercial partner relationships with manufacturers and distributors with the aim of achieving a commercial competitive advantage
• You will be fully accountable for their own work, establish their own milestones, team objectives and will delegate assignments
• You will demonstrate all the abilities needed to deliver at a senior level as a professional

What you will bring

• A deep understanding and knowledge of vendor requirements
• Extensive experience in networking channels
• Ability to influence and promote Computacenter as the preferred route to market for our vendors
• Able to engage with stakeholder both internally and externally to build robust working relationships
• Commercial acumen
• Ability to facilitate the creation of solutions between sales and vendors, shaping and negotiating large, complex opportunities
• Leadership experience with the ability to mentor and motivate your team to success

Current information for our applicants

We have made our application and recruitment process virtual, we are excited to bring talent like you on board to join our growing teams within Computacenter. Our recruiters remain available to you should you have any questions. We are looking forward to getting to know you!

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, with about 18,000 employees worldwide and a global revenue of £6.7 billion (2021). We work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology and managing our customers’ infrastructures.

We offer a friendly, open working environment without too much fuss about hierarchy. We are looking for professionals with diverse competencies, personalities and strengths who want to live our shared value of teamwork and performance.

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