SENIOR MANAGER, DIGITAL PROCESSES & TOOLS

What you’ll do   Location.
Newbury/London plus Hybrid Salary.
Excellent base salary plus benefits Working Hours.
37.
hours Mon-Fri    At Vodafone UK we believe that through collaboration and connection with our colleagues we can achieve great things.
Our hybrid working approach allows our people to work both in the office and at home, providing the flexibility and resources you need to succeed in your role.
We don't require you to be in on specific days; instead, we ask people to come into the office 2-3 days each week, on average 8 days a month.
What You'll Do   Join our Vodafone UK Networks team, where we’re continually building and enhancing our network, connecting millions of people and businesses across the country.
Be part of the team that makes it all happen – simplifying, automating, and bringing better connectivity than ever before, with giga-fast speed, to our customers.
We are looking for an individual to be accountable for, in conjunction with vertical department, setting the strategy and execution for Digital, Processes & Tools across UK Network Development and wider teams.
This is a critical role to ensure consistency and alignment across ND both market and vertical.
You will work to ensure that the execution of vision and strategy is planned within financial and resource element aligned to Networks & Delivery roadmaps.
This will include ensuring the data strategy, data lake, and associated analytics and automation products deliver value.
This role will ensure that maximum value is delivered from these services and work with data and automation teams to deliver to time, cost, and quality against joint roadmaps.
What You’ll Do •    Establish digital strategy for UK ND aligned to ND/NSE strategy •    Building the overall digital roadmap, identifying business drivers and benefit •    Simplification of  processes and tools to drive forward the digitalisation and automation strategy  •    Driving the harmonisation and automation of Network Development tools within the UK market, working with internal and external solution providers to establish tools and digitalisation •    Ensuring the necessary process methodology expertise to achieve ISO certifications •    Establishing process methodology expertise for process and quality assurance and improvement within the UK Network Development Organisation  •    Define and own the CapEx and OpEx budget required to deliver digital transformation and to deliver in line with unit cost targets, ensuring consistency across time, cost & quality •    Own digital governance & ensure collaboration across UK Networks and communication of progress across the wider organisation •    Build a team responsible for driving tools and digital base results across ND UK    •    Proactive search and independent implementation of innovations in the areas of project and process management as well as digitalisation and automation •    Understand and application opportunities of big data platforms and automation tooling evolution •    Present back a unified Digital roadmap, strategies and new technologies to both market and vertical leaders     Who you are   •    Experience working in an agile methodology within a digital or network environment  •    Knowledge and practical experience of managing and executing transformation projects •    An experienced manager with exposure to building and managing locally distributed teams •    Understanding and experience of applying advanced data practices, cloud, and ML/AI/GenAI (including cost and opportunities) •    Excellent communication and senior (up to Executive level) stakeholder management skills within a matrix environment •    Strong analytical, conceptual and organisational skills with and entrepreneurial mindset      Not a perfect fit?   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.
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.
odafone.
om/uk/applying-to-vodafone/) for guidance.
What's in it for you   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 and market leading parental leave policies.
Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded.
We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business.
We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.