Are you an experienced commercial or category professional looking to take ownership of a high-impact product area? We’re looking for a skilled Business Manager to join our team and drive strategy, growth, and partnerships across a key segment of our IT product portfolio. In this role, you’ll combine deep product and market understanding with strong business planning and stakeholder engagement skills. You’ll play a pivotal part in shaping our category strategy, supporting sales teams, and delivering measurable business outcomes.
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Location: Winnersh, Manchester, London, Dubai
Type: Permanent, Full-time
What You’ll Be Doing
- Using your expert understanding of category products, business management, and sales challenges to influence strategic direction.
- Actively contributing to the development of the category business plan and long-term growth strategy.
- Building strong relationships and representing the category team with senior stakeholders across Sales and partner organisations.
- Taking responsibility for a significant portion of the product range or a defined customer segment, including tracking performance and revenue delivery.
- Leading functional areas within the team such as market analysis, marketing engagement, salesforce communication, or similar.
- Potentially leading a subset of the team or overseeing engagement with one or more sales teams.
- Managing key relationships with external IT vendors as required.
Requirements
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Finance, or a related field (MBA preferred).
- Typically 8–12 years’ professional experience across Marketing, Sales, Business Planning or similar commercial disciplines.
- Experience managing Consumer or Commercial Partners, or End-User Account Management exposure.
Skills & Knowledge That Will Help You Succeed
- Strong knowledge of the IT industry and its dynamics.
- Advanced business planning skills, with the ability to manage complex models and reporting.
- Robust financial planning and analytical skills.
- Confident communicator with the ability to influence senior stakeholders internally and externally.
- Understanding of promotional marketing processes and best practices.
- Strong negotiation capability and ability to articulate product value to customers and partners.
- Leadership skills with the ability to drive cross-functional collaboration across sales, marketing, and supply chain.
Why Join Us?
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants to drive meaningful business impact, work across multiple functions, and take real ownership of category growth in a fast-paced and evolving industry.
What We Can Offer You:
- Health & Wellbeing: We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
- Personal & Professional Development: We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
- Unconditional Inclusion: We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
