Vodafone

Senior Transformation Manager

Vodafone

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Lisboa • Portugal

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

IoT

About the role

  • Lead and manage multiple IoT projects from inception to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and budget;
  • Accountable for the programme level plans and roadmaps across the portfolio scope;
  • Interlock with all delivery teams, functions, other portfolios and stakeholders to ensure plans are agreed and interlocked;
  • Management of demand and capacity to ensure the programme has the available resource to deliver objectives;
  • Proactive management of the portfolio level plans through governance and dependency tracking;
  • Managing sourcing strategy and the sourcing processes, working with Supply Chain Management;
  • Ensuring outcomes from suppliers are matched to the programme delivery plans;
  • Tracking performance (time, cost, quality) of supplier deliverables and taking proactive actions where performance is not on track;
  • Ownership of programme budget and spend;
  • Defining and operating the financial tracking processes;
  • Budget submission and governance within Vodafone finance governance bodies;
  • Tracking of value KPIs and ROI for the portfolio;
  • Managing governance forums at programme and executive steerco level to communicate progress and make key decisions across stakeholder groups including the IoT C-suite;
  • Establishing and managing forums to control scope and business case changes;
  • Communicating the purpose, outcomes, plan and progress to the entire organisation with tailored communications for different groups.

Requirements

  • Relevant university degree (M.Sc., B.Sc.);
  • Qualifications in relevant delivery methodologies e.g. SAFe, PRINCE2;
  • Experience leading a large portfolio of technology work, and delivering transformational change initiatives in a multi-vendor environment;
  • Highly organised and motivated to manage large complex plans across multiple teams;
  • Excellent verbal and written communicator to large audiences (100s of people) and C-suite members;
  • Very strong stakeholder management skills (including influencing and mediation), with technical and non-technical teams up to head of department level;
  • Highly skilled at managing finance and KPIs on multi-million pound technology projects with a high attention to detail on financial metrics;
  • IoT or telecoms BSS knowledge is highly desirable;
  • Fluency in English.
Benefits
  • Hybrid Work Model - Flexible hybrid work model with 8-10 in-office days per month, managed by team leaders;
  • Vodafone Products and Services - Employees get a mobile phone, free communication plan, data card, and various discounts on services and products;
  • Recognition - Recognition programs for innovative, creative, high-potential employees and exemplary behaviors;
  • Health and Well-being - Well-being Program offers nutrition and psychological consultations, webinars, workshops, and discounts on various services and products;
  • Learning - Access to Communities of Practice and a customizable digital training platform with high-quality content (namely Harvard Business Publishing, Skillsoft and Speexx);
  • Local and International Mobility - Internal recruitment with local and international rotation opportunities across departments and roles.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
SAFePRINCE2financial trackingbudget managementKPI trackingperformance trackingresource managementsourcing strategydependency trackingprogramme management
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementcommunicationorganisationinfluencingmediationmotivationattention to detailleadershipproactive managementteam collaboration