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Personality. Passion. Ambition. If you’ve got these qualities, you can grow a successful sales career at Softcat (and earn some eye-catching rewards). You could be a recent graduate. You could already have experience after school, college or university. Do you need to be a techie type? Nope – we’ll give you all the training and support you’ll need.

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Learn & Grow

Whether you’re a recent graduate or have some sales experience in another industry, you’ll join one of our Sales Development Programmes which have been designed to accelerate competence and confidence within the sales role across our corporate, public sector, and specialist sales areas. The programmes focus on behaviours and provide support and structured training, with a clear route of progression across each division.

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SALES DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

For your first six months, you’ll attend sales workshops to grow your knowledge, skills and behaviour, alongside one to one coaching to help you achieve your goals and kick start your Softcat Sales career.
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BESPOKE INDUCTION

We kick things off with a tailored induction plan specific to your role and needs. You’ll meet our senior leaders, start getting to grips with tech, and learn sales techniques and best practices.
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TRANSITION TRAINING

From one year onwards this training will give you the skills and knowledge to make a strategic shift as well as the opportunity to adopt new practices in your sales processes, boosting your confidence moving into the second year.
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ADVANCED TECHNIQUES

As part of our 9 week Vendor Sales Academy you will have the opportunity to strengthen your presentation skills, build technical knowledge and develop advanced sales techniques thus growing your pipeline.
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SOLUTION SALES ACADEMY

Supported by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the Solution Sales Academy is a 14 week course. You will learn how to adopt a strategic approach, identify and develop solution opportunities, while increasing your confidence in conversations about business value.
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ENTERPRISE SALES SKILLS

Invitation only programme with an emphasis on consultative communication techniques, planning, and key stakeholder engagement that will enable you to position Softcat in the competitive and complex enterprise marketplace.
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TAILORED TRAINING

After two years, your training is increasingly personalised to your individual career goals. You'll define your development areas. We'll deliver regular one-to-one coaching to help you beat your targets.

Choose your Path

Follow a structured career progression path into account management or leadership.

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SALES EXECUTIVE

You'll likely join the team as a Sales Executive. In your first 12 months, you enjoy comprehensive training and build your confidence working with customers.
For more information, see our infographic.
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ACCOUNT MANAGER

Your role will naturally evolve into Account Manager. You’ll have the freedom to run and develop your own accounts - and really show what you can do. Your earnings will grow with your achievements.
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SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGER

Prefer to focus on growing your own business? Then your ideal career path is to progress as a Senior Account Manager, then Account Director and Senior Account Director.
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DECISION TIME!

Once you’ve proven yourself as an Account Manager, you have a decision to make. Continue to progress in Sales Account Management or if you enjoy leadership and developing the potential in others, then Softcat’s Team Management route is for you.
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MENTOR

Your leadership path will begin around 18-24 months in, when you can take the first step into people management as a Mentor to new colleagues.
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DEPUTY TEAM LEADER

You can advance to a Deputy Team Leader position, likely to be around 24-32 months. As well as managing your own business, you'll support the Team Leader in co-managing a number of Account Managers.
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TEAM LEADER

If you achieve personal and team success, you could make Team Leader in a further 18 months. That’ll provide significant quarterly bonus opportunities for you.
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SALES MANAGER

Next up, you’ll be responsible for managing a number of teams, as well as your own business. It’s a big job with big rewards.
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LATERAL MOVES

You could also choose to progress laterally, for example by specialising in a specific technology or switching to a different client sector. We'll always be as flexible as possible to support your growth, wherever you want to go.

Rewards & Benefits

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UNCAPPED COMMISSION IN SALES

The earnings potential in sales really stands out. You could be earning £60k a year inside three years.
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STAND OUT INCENTIVES

Our high-performers have enjoyed recent trips to Asia, the Caribbean, Colorado and Sicily.
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BENEFITS TO SUIT YOU

Personalise the perks and benefits you want via our dedicated portal, Perklife
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FUTURE PLANNING

Contributory pension scheme, life assurance and a company share scheme (after qualifying periods).
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HEALTH BENEFITS

Free eye tests, on-site massage therapist, and after a qualifying period there’s private health and dental care.
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REWARDING PERFORMANCE

Recognition awards and incentive schemes to reward personal achievements.
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FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD

Help yourself to a free breakfast selection.
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FAMILY FRIENDLY

We’ve held family fun days and aim to support parents and returners to work.
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'YOU' TIME

Flexible start/finish times, duvet days, a day off for your birthday and Christmas

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If you have any specific questions about working for Softcat, please check the FAQ section. If you can’t find the answer you are looking for, please email us at recruitmentteam@softcat.com, and we’ll get back to you when we can.

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