Senior Product Manager Home Connectivity

Vodafone Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading telecommunications company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Home Connectivity. You will lead the development of connectivity products, managing strategic projects and relationships with stakeholders, while ensuring product lifecycle management. The role demands strong strategic planning and leadership skills to align with market trends and customer needs, offering competitive benefits including a yearly bonus and company car.

Benefits

Yearly bonus: 20%

Company car: company funded

Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays

Charity days: 5 days/year

Maternity leave: 52 weeks

Private pension with 2:1 matching

Access to private medical and dental

Qualifications

• Experience leading strategic projects focused on product development.
• Strong understanding of market trends and customer needs.
• Ability to manage global strategy and commercial requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic projects for new connectivity products.
• Manage relationships with Vodafone markets for smooth execution.
• Ensure financial performance meets revenue growth objectives.

Skills

Product lifecycle management

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Technical knowledge

Cross-functional team leadership

Job description

Overview

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

Our Home Portfolio team leads a portfolio of routers and services to support the Vodafone markets with their broadband offerings. These devices, like Ultra Hub 7, are our customers’ primary touchpoint with our broadband services, and therefore it is important we provide a premium and differentiated experience. As a Senior Product Manager Home Connectivity, you will be building new home connectivity products in alignment with overall business objectives and key stakeholders, considering industry and customer trends, as well as Vodafone’s future strategy. In this role, you’ll be owning E2E product lifecycle for our connectivity products and researching new technologies to further enhance our broadband product & propositions, with the aim to match the evolving needs of broadband customers. You’ll be responsible for development and growth of multiple products including but not only limited to: FWA Hub - Vodafone’s first platform-based router for the fixed wireless access technology, aiming to bring uncompromised connectivity experience to millions of Vodafone customers; Vodafone Hub Platform – A unique platform based on the industry standards, which brings together selected features and enablers to Vodafone’s routers, unlocking the ultimate connectivity experience and allowing for rapid development of various connectivity products.

Responsibilities

• Leading the strategic projects with the focus on developing, rolling out and scaling new connectivity products across different access technologies
• Managing the relationship with Vodafone markets and ensuring smooth executions of the Home Portfolio’s key commercial initiatives
• Supporting the Principal Product Manager Home Connectivity in developing vision and strategy for connectivity products in alignment with the overall business objectives, taking into account the latest industry and market trends in the home connectivity area
• Ensure overall financial performance of the products within the home connectivity product portfolio to meet overall revenue growth objectives, implementing cost optimisations and making key investment decisions as needed
• Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle: ideation, development, launch, and in-life optimisation
• Focus on ‘total product design’ to ensure all E2E requirements are captured including quality, safety, regulatory and sustainability
• Responsible for definition and implementation of the product requirements as well as for the platform functionalities and interfaces towards the end customer
• Operates at a higher vision and strategy level for an overarching group of products. Needs to align customer requirements and potentially consider segment level variations. Should consider broader customer thinking and requirements at a global and local level
• Capture, translate and own global customer needs into clear product capabilities and features or to optimise existing products
• Partner with technology, procurement and delivery teams to ensure timely and high-quality product delivery

Who you are

• Operates at a higher vision and strategy level for an overarching group of products
• Needs to align customer requirements and potentially consider segment level variations. Should consider broader customer thinking and requirements at a global and local level
• Ability to operate at the highest level within Vodafone to determine strategy plan and investments, interfacing with senior leaders across Group and OpCo’s but also externally with big tech players and partners, coaching and mentoring cross-functional multinational teams
• Drives senior functional stakeholders to align with their product strategy and requirements. Highly proficient at managing global strategy and commercial requirements for a global product/s
• Excellent knowledge across multiple products within a portfolio. Greater emphasis on cross-portfolio solutions and product linkages
• A combination of strong commercial, business acumen and technical knowledge from a product standpoint, with the ability to bridge any gaps between the two
• Ability to build regular innovation increments into existing portfolio solving direct customer needs
• Enables the global vision locally, through alignment of the global roadmap strategy to the local business priorities
• Excellent ability to influence and navigate in a highly complex environment, whilst maintaining entrepreneurialism and delivering strong leadership to the teams

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

• Yearly bonus: 20%
• Company car: company funded car of £580 per month + private fuel or cash alternative of £630 per month
• 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 – the first 13 weeks are fully paid, followed by 26 weeks of half pay
• 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

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 are committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

Together we can.