Senior Business Operations

1 week ago


Paddington, United Kingdom Vodafone Full time

**Description**:
**Role purpose**:
The Senior Business Operations & Transformation Manager supports the CIO who reports into the CIO for Vodafone. The role is accountable for managing & aligning the internal & external governance of the whole function, covering the monitoring, reviewing & improving of its operational effectiveness. The role supports the strategic alignment across all platforms and all local markets with effective internal & external communications, strong business & commercial thinking and exceptional influencing at SLT level. The role requires frequent content creation for SLT & ExCo boards and provides the key interfaces between IT, networks, local markets and security.

This role has accountability for Risk Management, including several top Technology key risks.

The team is at the start of transformation, growth and operating model restructure, aligning multiple local operating companies, ways of working, processes, toolsets, KPIs and needed culture transformations. This role will be responsible for the programme management and transformation of multiple major programmes, requiring key organization, influencing and superior strategic thinking at a high level, dealing with SLT members across the organization and preparing work for ExCo review.
Key responsibility for culture & change transformation across the function which requires strong business & cultural understanding, with key strategic thinking supporting New Gen Telco and driving a platform-led organization. The role will be responsible for creating the roadmaps, strategy, managing workstreams at a senior level, and embedding the required changes both strategically and culturally.

**Job Responsibility**:
**Key accountabilities and decision ownership***:

- Supporting the CIO & overall business management & transformation of the function, maintain & improving key interfaces with multiple areas across Networks, IT, Security, Vodafone Business and local markets
- To create the strategy, in collaboration with key leaders (including local markets)
- Programme management of key function-wide programmes, including market integration
- Represent & create influential content for SLT & ExCo review board level, ensuring key workstreams are efficient, collaborative & effective & key decisions are made & implemented
- Accountability for risk management, operational governance & senior level business management with key working relationships across Vodafone Technology, HR, Finance, Internal Comms

**Core competencies, knowledge and experience***:

- Strong experience in Technology and Business function & sound understanding of Telecommunication Networks, IT, Platform, Product & Service
- Strong understanding of and experience in strategy setting & implementation
- Experience in working and being able to align and influence virtual and multinational teams, with proven record of delivering goals in matrix organizations
- Exceptional ability to understand & communicate strategic issues at board/Director level, flexing style when necessary, effectively communicating to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to work pro-actively on a day-to-day basis with minimum guidance, dealing with ambiguity & complexity on a daily basis, managing multiple & changing priorities & taking accountability for decisions made
- Strong line management and leadership of both technical experts and senior transformation manager

**Must have technical / professional qualifications***:

- Degree qualification (IT/engineering/business/ or MBA) and minimum 5+ years’ experience in a Technology and commercially focused function
- Superior programme management with a key consultancy focus, and ability to transition strategy into implementation
- Exceptional influencing skills at a senior level, organisaitional & communication skills, including creating ExCo level documentation for key steercos and review boards
- A continuous improvement mind-set focussed on processes, tooling, automation & activities that maximise revenue, efficiency and most importantly Vodafone Business customer loyalty
- International experience preferred with ability to work across local markets, cultures
- Strong understanding of technologies, platforms and product with ability to drive the change required in line with the Project Gamma and VT change programme

**Key performance indicators***:

- Exceptional delivery, governance & management of key strategic programmes
- Superior working relationships with key stakeholders at all levels, and across functions
- Strong & accurate governance and documentation of programme management, communications, exec presentations & risk & governance



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