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Description

Job Title: Programme Manager
Location: Newbury 

The Role
The Programme Manager role exists within the Delivery Chapter of Vodafone Business Technology Solutions. The Delivery Chapter is part of an Agile organisation of squads, tribes and other chapters, which design and deliver enterprise level technology solutions to customers. These solutions primarily consist of Unified Comms, Connectivity, Internet of Things, Managed Mobility, Cloud and Security. The Programme Manager is responsible for owning a variety of customer delivery programmes through the phases of a project lifecycle, from initial opportunity through to successful handover into business-as-usual operations, with a focus on meeting programme commitments through strong leadership and pragmatism. 

With us you will:
-    Lead a matrix-team of multi-talented people from across geographical locations, cultures and organisations, including Vodafone, its vendors and its customers
-    Operate at a strategic level, to establish and manage; budgets, deliverables, milestones and timescales for the programme to ensure all contractual obligations are met & programme benefits are measured.
-    Deliver multi-tower technical solutions into enterprise customer estates
-    Create programme plans and schedules to support and track milestone delivery, using tasks, dependencies and timeframes
-    Execute programme governance and chair both operational and strategic programme review boards
-    Manage the programme budget through regular finance tracking
-    Provide high level programme reports to key stakeholders 
-    Record programme data in a central system
-    Develop and maintain strong relationships with customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders
-    Close programmes and record lessons to promote resilience and continuous improvement
-    Promote the use of digital tools over manual processes and handoffs

Apply if you have:
-    A successful track record of delivering complex customer programmes within a fast-paced ICT or Telecommunications industry
-    Excellent communication and presentation skills, especially when working with remote team members and stakeholders
-    The ability to build strong relationships with customers, vendors and internal stakeholders
-    A dynamic approach to leading matrix teams, with a drive towards team empowerment and self-sufficiency
-    Pragmatic approach to problem solving and issue resolution
-    Experience of working in a highly matrixed, Agile organisation
-    A keen interest in continuous improvement and digitisation
-    Delivery orientated programme management certifications such as PMI, PMP, Prince 2, Agile.

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Job Responsibility

* Accountable for defining and leading the programme/project, cutting across multiple channels, products, systems and departments, to time, budget, and scope from initiation through to completion;

* Responsible for overall integrity and coherence of the programme/project and executing the programme/project vision, mapping all initiatives and taking accountability for all dependencies and alignment;

* Runs a high performing, collaborative, delivery team, who may be directly managed or matrix managed;

* Drives the delivery of the programme/project through active management ensuring milestones are met to time, cost and quality;

* Defines release readiness requirements against business outcome needs and validates readiness before release into production;

* Ensures overall integrity of the project and compliance to Standards;

* Monitors performance across programmes in the portfolio to enable tracking of the strategy execution;

* Uses best practice knowledge to generate analytics and maintain a common set of practices, principles and templates for managing, anticipating and exceeding the needs of the business;

* Possesses understanding of frameworks (e.g. Waterfall/Agile) and methodologies (e.g. Prince2);

* Demonstrates strong communication skills, coordinates project stakeholders and may also act as lead representative in key governance and decision meetings;

* Maintains strong relations and works closely with stakeholders across Vodafone and external partners in order to ensure alignment with the broader commercial objectives of the business.

Skills

Business Partnering

Partner and Vendor Management

Agile

Project and Programme Management

Business Acumen

Complexity Management

Expert Communication

Risk Assessment

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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