Company
Vodafone is a leading telecommunications company in Europe and Africa.
We connect for a better future, using technology to improve people’s lives and enable an inclusive, sustainable digital society.
We are guided by our Social Contract – how we bring our purpose to life through what we do. It is our commitment to society, customers, and governments to connect rural communities, to enable access to education, healthcare, and financial services; and to help businesses. With these actions we also contribute to the success of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Through our business, we aim to build a digital society that enhances socioeconomic progress, is inclusive for all and does not come at a cost to our planet.
Role title: Manager, IOT Commercial In-Life
Location: London - Paddington
Role Purpose
Manage the In-Life Commercial relationship and profitability for the NaaS and VISOL contracts. Understand the cost drivers, actions to improve profitability, impacts of change requests, SLA credits. As such, you will be part of a new function specific for IoT, managing supply relationships direct with other Vodafone entities for the critical supply arrangements for the procurement and in-life contract management of network services. Responsible and accountable for the end to end commercial (P&L), technical (to Contract) and service delivery (SLA compliance) of the IoT Network as a Service agreement, Temporary Service Agreements owning strong internal and external relationships and ensuring success on all levels.
What you'll do
- Own the performance of the P&L for the Service, take actions on costs.
- Ensure that the Commercial terms in the contract are complied with, covering billing, commitments etc
- Plan the budgets of the supplying organizations within Vodafone, matching forecast revenues and costs.
- Evaluate commercial impact of change requests, obtaining costs. Monitor delivery and price impacts.
- Work with all parties to optimize efficiency.
Who you are
- Experience in running complex managed services contracts.
- Excellent negotiation and stakeholder management experience in an international environment
- Understanding of economics of managed network services
- Decisive decision-making driving successful outcomes.
- Professional experience with minimum of 5 years in Telco industry purchasing.
- Sound understanding of Telco technology, products and supply for Enterprise market.
- Ability to accomplish goals in traditional and matrix organization preferable.
- Cross-functional thinking and acting
- Experience in Supply Chain Management for vendor management.
- Achieving cost and quality improvement across the NAAS contract framework
- New vendor on-boarding in line with business requirements
- Successful performance management of existing supplier relations
What's in it for you
- Discretionary yearly bonus: 10%
- Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year.
- Charity days: 5 days/year
- Maternity leave: 52 weeks out of which 39 weeks are fully paid + 13 weeks half pay and 6 months - working 4 days, getting paid 5
- Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
- Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme.
- Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan.
Who we are
You may have already heard of Vodafone - We're a leading Telecommunications company in Europe and Africa. But what you might not know is that we are continuously investing in new technologies to improve the lives of millions of customers, businesses and people around the world, creating a better future for everyone.
As part of our global family, whether that's Vodafone, Vodacom or _VOIS, you'll feel a sense of pride and purpose as you contribute to our culture of innovation. We pursue equality of opportunity and inclusion for all candidates through our employment policies and practices. We recognise and celebrate the importance of diversity and inclusivity in our workspace and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination especially related to but not limited to race, colour, age, veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation, pregnancy, ethnicity, disability, religion, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, social origin, cultural background, social, or marital status.
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