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Programme Manager

Location: Newbury (Starting with working from him, occasional travel to office location)  

Safety Notice: To ensure candidate and employee safety, we are continuing with our virtual hiring and onboarding processes until further notice. 

This exciting role manages sits within the PMO team and will drive end-to-end projects & programmes and has responsibility for the planning, coordination, and deployment of all releases into production within a particular domain. They identify, manage, and mitigate individual projects, programmes or cross-programme risks and issues in order to facilitate the on-time and on-budget delivery of capabilities and features aligned to the business outcome vision. 
 

The Project Lead focusses on successful delivery of the whole of the proposed change, through effective co-ordination of the programme or project tasks, management of their inter-dependencies and holding project stakeholders to account for delivering their individual activities effectively.
 

This role will also be instrumental in delivering the vodafone’s growth strategy including programmes process & application optimisation, specifying and delivering new capabilities, on-boarding new divisions, sharing learnings and best practice and driving the transformation towards digital and smart ways of working. 
 

What will you be doing?
 

• Driving transformation across multiple channels, products, systems and departments
• Drive the delivery of the programme/project through active management ensuring milestones are met to time, cost and quality
• Define release readiness requirements against business outcome needs and validate readiness before release into production
• Ensure overall integrity of the project and compliance to Standards
• Monitor performance across programmes in the portfolio to enable tracking of the strategy execution
• Use best practice knowledge to generate analytics and maintain a common set of practices, principles and templates for managing, anticipating and exceeding business needs
• Demonstrate strong communication skills, coordinate project stakeholders and may also act as lead representative in key governance and decision meetings
• Maintain strong relations and work closely with stakeholders across Vodafone and external partners in order to ensure alignment with the broader commercial objectives of the business
• Championing new ways of working as the Business adopts SAFE ways of working.

Who are we looking for?
 

• Ambitious with a challenger mindset and is passionate about making real transformation and impact in to the business
• Able to flex project/programme frameworks and approaches to manage projects and relationships in order to drive excellence through effective action management/tracking, planning and cost/quality control  
• Demonstrates clear and effective communication through all channels 
• Robust understanding of business needs, identifies and prioritises stakeholders, builds sustainable relationships to drive increased business performance and best value outcomes
• Drives performance and relationship management with internal and external stakeholders to support improvement of delivery standards for Vodafone and our customers
• Able to quickly and efficiently identify opportunities, tackle big challenges, understand root causes and make informed decisions in order to deliver business impact
• Ability to identify and understand emerging risk and apply the risk management approach. Understands the process of Risk identification and assessment, response and reporting
• Project/Programme management 
• Self-Starter that can deal with ambiguity
• Has Agile experience (SAFE) / Agile coach 
• Experience in a PMO team is also desirable
• Proficient on Microsoft applications such as Power Point, Excel

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. 
 
Together we can 
 

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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