Data and Digital Business Partner Exec

Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive, collaborative and innovative company?

Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team?

Join our Data and Digital Business Partnering Team

The Business Partner team acts as the bridge between the business and Data & Digital, working closely with stakeholders to understand their challenges, opportunities, and requirements. They provide a single entry point for all data and digital demand, ensuring requests are clearly defined, prioritised, and aligned to business strategy before being routed to the right delivery teams

Success. The Softcat Way.

At Softcat we want to support you at every stage of your career. Whether that means stepping up into a more senior role, taking on more responsibilities in your current role or broadening your skills and experiences in a different department, we encourage all our employees to develop and grow with us.

Your role

We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Business Partnering Executive to support the Business Partnering Team Lead in driving strategic collaboration across departments. This role supports in engaging with stakeholders to understand, capture, and document business needs—particularly around data and digital requirements—to enable effective decision-making and solution development.

This role requires strong interpersonal skills, analytical thinking, and a passion for enabling data and digital transformation through effective business engagement.

Key Responsibilities

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders across various functions.
• Facilitate discussions to understand business challenges, opportunities, and priorities.

Requirements Gathering

• Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit, define, and document data and digital requirements.
• Translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements for technical teams.

Data & Digital Support

• Assist in identifying gaps in current data and digital capabilities.
• Support the development of business cases and proposals for new initiatives.
• Continual review and management of the backlog items.

Collaboration & Communication

• Work closely with the Business Partnering Team Lead to ensure alignment of stakeholder needs with strategic objectives.
• Communicate findings, insights, and recommendations effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Documentation & Reporting

• Maintain accurate records of stakeholder interactions, requirements, and project progress.
• Prepare reports and presentations to support decision-making as required

Skills & Experience

• Experience in a business support, analyst, or stakeholder engagement role.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to gather and document business requirements effectively.
• Basic understanding of Jira, or a willingness to learn.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and collaboration tools (e.g., Teams, SharePoint)

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 – 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home
• 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.