Programme Manager - DCC

Vodafone Group; Newbury; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading telecommunications company in the UK seeks a professional for its Data Centre consolidation team. The successful candidate will manage project workstreams, build relationships with executives, and ensure timely delivery. Required skills include a customer experience focus and strong facilitation abilities. This is an opportunity to enhance your career in a global, diverse environment with a focus on sustainability.

Qualifications

• Ability to relate Data Centre processes to provide solutions.
• Experience in telecoms or IT sector providing complex solutions.
• Exposure to platform and service rationalisation projects.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with Business Unit and Senior Executives.
• Interface with stakeholders for project prioritisation and delivery.
• Manage delivery schedules to ensure timely compliance.

Skills

Customer experience focus

Strong facilitation skills

Negotiation skills

Data analysis and mapping

Job description

Overview

Role Purpose

The Data Centre consolidation team is leading the programme to consolidate the European satellite data centres to drive cost efficiency, simplification and CO2 reduction across Vodafone Group. As an active member of the team, the successful candidate will be working across Vodafone Group and the local markets to manage the programme workstreams required to deliver the programme strategy.

Join Us

At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain professional relationships with all Business Unit Executives and Senior Executives to drive the implementation of the DC Consolidation programme’s strategy.
• Interface with all areas for prioritisation, development, delivery of projects and resolve priority conflicts with all relevant Executive Heads and Managing Executives.
• Analyse the DC consolidation project strategy and with various business units define the projects to deliver against the strategy. Ensure all projects are sufficiently resourced.
• Organise virtual teams to develop and execute various project deliverables and ensure achievement of all revenue objectives. Analyse each project’s detail with the respective project managers to ensure the objectives will be met and phased plans are put in place.
• Manage delivery schedules for the projects to ensure timely delivery and compliance with requirements. Managing change control procedures to ensure that key scope changes are escalated. Ensure identified risks and issues are mitigated to ensure on-time delivery of products.

Who you are

• Ability to relate Data Centre processes, IT and people/organisation to help provide solutions with a strong focus on the customer experience
• Strong facilitation and negotiation skills, having worked within multi-disciplinary virtual teams, ideally in the telecoms or IT sector, providing complex solutions
• Experience of platform, product and service rationalisation projects
• Experience of supporting the development of data analysis and data mapping tools and techniques would be desirable

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people 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 still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

What’s in it for you

Who we are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people\'s lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn’t a concept; it’s lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You\'ll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. We’re committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

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Together we can.

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