  We realize and study a model of hybrid inflation in the context of softly
broken supersymmetry. The inflaton is taken to be a flat direction in the
superfield space and, due to unsuppressed couplings, its soft supersymmetry
breaking mass runs with scale. Both gauge and Yukawa couplings are taken into
account and different inflationary scenarios are investigated depending on the
relative strenght of the couplings and the mass spectrum.
