At Softcat, we celebrate change makers and entrepreneurs. We're not just a company; we're a community that stands at the forefront of progress. As a Chief Strategist, you'll be empowered to lead with creativity, drive strategic initiatives, and make a tangible impact. With Softcat, you'll find a culture that values your insights and supports your journey every step of the way. If you're ready to inspire and be inspired, we invite you to be part of our mission to revolutionise IT services for our customers.

Join our Advisory Services team! 

Our Advisory Services function advise organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technologies, optimising their performance, and help them in managing their end to end IT services against business needs. In doing this we help the leaders (CxO's) within our customers to maximise productivity and realise the business value of IT for internal and external users.

Success. The Softcat Way. 

Softcat is a £1billion+ technology solutions business and trusted partner to names like Apple, Microsoft and Adobe. Offering a growing portfolio of services including software licensing, cyber security and IT infrastructure, we give our technical teams the tools and support to make exciting things happen. This is where to achieve more for your career.
 

The Chief Strategist will be working with key, strategic accounts within the Private Sector to help them drive largescale transformation. The role is pivotal in bridging the gap between business problems and technology solutions for our top tier customers.

As Chief Strategist, you'll be responsible for: 

• Engage at senior level to influence customer strategy and become a trusted advisor.
• Lead the Architecture team within the account and sector, ensuring the solutions proposed are fit for purpose and provide good value
• Function as a proactive member of the relevant Sector/Account leadership teams
• Provide leadership input into transformational sales opportunities within accounts
• Identify and analyse requirements and customer problems, develop suitable architectures, and lead a virtual team including the Softcat and Partner network
• Actively contribute to the Softcat Propositions and standards

We'd love you to have

• Consultancy and/or Senior Leader level experience
• Experience at leading major largescale transformational programmes
• Relationship focused; experience of building relationships at the highest levels within enterprise customers, becoming a trusted advisor on a technology basis
• Excellent negotiating skills and exceptional commercial skills
• Knowledge of and experience in designing and implementing solutions comprising of multiple technologies and business applications
• Commercially astute with governance experience
• Demonstrable experience in having previously identified and led cross working party initiatives through discovery, selection, implementation, and continuous review to assure customer satisfaction

We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!

Work in a way that works for you  

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:  

• Hybrid working 
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day  
• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs 

Working with us  

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.  

Join us  

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence.  You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/ 

Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.