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We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

Business Automation Lead

Location: Newbury (Full-time remote working during COVID-19)
Salary: Competitive plus bonus
COVID-19 Notice: We are continuing recruitment and have implemented new processes that promote candidate and employee safety. As part of this we have moved to a virtual hiring and onboarding process until further notice.

Vodafone UK Corporate functions work within the heart of our business, providing professional expertise, support and guidance across all operations, revolutionising our digital growth by always moving, always adapting, to be ready for the future.
 
  
What will you be doing?  

The Radical Simplification & Automation team acts as the Centre of Excellence to drive the digital and automation transformation path for Vodafone UK.  This is a critical function to move Vodafone UK from a transaction-based operation, to a highly automated insight- and data-driven organisation. The Business Automation Authority role will involve working with Product Owners, business users and functional / technical experts to translate business opportunities into a high level technical analytics and automation solutions.

• Work with Product Owners, business users and functional / technical experts to translate business opportunities into a high level, technical, analytics and automation solutions.
• Act as the interface between the Product Owner and Solution Architecture / Design to document requirements and user stories.
• Contribute to business case quantification.
• Creation and definition of key performance indictors to measure the business value delivered by automation and analytics initiatives.
• Validation of high level designs, deliverables and timelines to meet business expectations.
• Validation and communication of value delivered by analytics and automation solutions.
• Represent the Radical Simplification and Automation team in internal and external forums, promoting and driving a Vodafone UK analytics and automation strategy

Who are we looking for? 

• Proficiency in Continuous Improvement methodologies (Six Sigma / Lean / Kanban), e.g. Green, Black or Master Black Belt Six Sigma qualified
• Agile development methodologies
• Strong knowledge and demonstrable experience of solving business problems with analytics and automation solutions.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience of working with a broad cross section of business users.
• Strong commercial skills, able to evaluate and measure business value and ROI

What’s in it for you?

An excellent remuneration and bonus package with 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive and flexible benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family. From our market-leading parental leave policies through to employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes we are committed to supporting you throughout your career with Vodafone.

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.

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