Chief Technologist - Cyber

The OCTO is responsible for delivering world-class technology market insights and guidance to our customers and internal stakeholders. We work with sales, services, vendors, customers, partners, analysts and Softcat's leadership teams to ensure that our propositions and capabilities remain relevant now and into the future.

Success. The Softcat Way.

As the UK's largest technology solutions provider and a FTSE 250 listed company, we have built areputation for excellence. Our strategy is simple – we believe that highly engaged employees are the key to building customer trust and loyalty over the years. This trust and loyalty, combined with our market leading growth and performance, enables us to invest in our technology and services capabilities.

In this senior role, w e are looking for a high impact , highly collaborative and highly experienced technology leader and Cyber expert to o wn the technology decisions for our Cyber Security proposition .

The ideal candidate will be a determined positive energising collaborator, who will set a clear and simple vision, will initiate and build trust amongst co lleagues , customers and partners , is comfortable with passionate debate and making decisions, is confident presenting to business and technical audiences, and who has a get it done , get it done together, and get it done well attitude.

Above all, you will obsess over customer and colleague engagement, to ensure every interaction proves that we care.

As a member of the Cyber Security Technology Tower Council (TTC) , Product Council and Services Council , you will collaborate with colleagues to ensure that our proposition and execution is effective in the short-term, built for l ong
-term success , and is change-ready .

In addition, you will be working with th e Office of the CTO (OCTO) to identify cross sell opportunities across all Softcat business lines , including workspace, hybrid platforms, networking and connectivity , and data, automation and AI .

• Acting as an ambassador for Softcat's values(passion,fun,intelligence,responsibility,and community)
• Providing technology market insights and guidanceforthe
  
  Cyber SecurityTTC, andthe Softcatleadershipteams
• Identifyingcommoncustomer problems and opportunities that will gain mainstream technology and services adoption
• Selecting theproductsand services that address those problems
• Engagingtechnicaland business audiences alongside salesand services colleagues
• Uncovering opportunities and identifying clear outcomes and success criteria

We'd love you to have

• Extensivecybersecurityknowledge and experience, andanoutstanding track record ofpropositiondevelopment and leadership
• Creativity,curiosity,critical thinking, advanced problem solving,humility and drive
• Energising collaborative team playerand relationship builder
• Outstanding organisational skills, with the ability toco-ordinate and prioritise effectively
• Outstanding public speaker, with confidence and credibility in front of external and internal business and technical audiences
• Commercially aware approach to customer engagement andpropositiondevelopment

We also acknowledgethattheconfidencegap and imposter syndrome are a real thing andcanget in thewayof 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:

• 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…