Senior Programme Manager - Enterprise & Corporate

Location: {Insert Office Location} + (Hybrid/Homebased Working*)

Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits

Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week – Mon to Fri}

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Who We Are

We’re a global technology communications company that empowers people and businesses to stay connected and thrive in a digital world. With a focus on innovation, sustainability and earning customer loyalty, we leverage cutting-edge technology to offer products and services that enhance communication and improve lives.

As a Senior Programme Manager within UK Digital & IT Delivery, you will deliver highly complex, cross-functional technology programmes that support wider strategic business transformation and product delivery focussed on generating value for our customers. The Senior Programme Manager will work collaboratively across all Digital & IT functions to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery of programme budgets up to £20M, with a significant matrix programme team of up to 30 people, and direct line management of Vodafone Technical Delivery Managers

What You'll Do

• Leading from the front, design, plan and own the end-to-end delivery of a complex technical programme of work with multiple sub-projects &workstreams.
• Identify key business stakeholders, leading on defining the business case, programme objectives, scope, agreed set of expected benefits and outcomes.
• Maintain oversight of the programme through setting clear priorities and responsibilities and coordinate planning across multiple Technical Delivery Managers and engineering teams, giving due consideration to company-wide priorities and dependencies and optimising the programme plans to maximise benefits as required.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, challenging decisions where appropriate to ensure a successful programme outcome up to Director/Board level
• As a subject matter expert, use your deep technical knowledge to support and lead improvements in Digital & IT.
• Act as a thought leader on programme and project management and collaborate across the company to bring new ways of working to improve delivery outcomes

Who You Are

• Experience dealing with a IT Capex budget of up to £20 Million
• Demonstrable experience in building and managing complex stakeholder relationships (Director & Heads of Function)
• Have experience of managing significantly complex Digital & IT Programmes using Agile and Waterfall approach
• Proven track record of managing application development and software engineering programmes – building products from scratch directly with engineering teams
• Leadership – ability to manage, motivate & develop a direct team and in a matrix environment

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.

What We Offer

We believe that taking care of our employees is the key to their success. That is why we offer an excellent remuneration and bonus package with up to 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family, including employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes. We take pride in our commitment to supporting you at every stage of your career by providing top of the range learning and development tools, market leading parental leave policies and an innovative Reconnect programme for people who have taken a career break.

Together We Can

Vodafone UK are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators standards.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website (https://careers.vodafone.com/uk/applying-to-vodafone/) for guidance.

Posting End Date: 31/05/23