About the role

Manager IT Transformation overseeing multiple projects from inception to completion at Vodafone. Responsible for project plans, budgets, and stakeholder communications.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage multiple IT 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 IT 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.

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;
IT or telecoms BSS knowledge is highly desirable;
Fluency in English.

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.