Snr MSFT Product Manager

Vodafone Group; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a strategic leader to spearhead its Microsoft Practice. This role involves defining and executing a comprehensive strategy to leverage Microsoft products, driving growth and innovation across markets. You will lead a dynamic team, fostering collaboration and continuous learning while ensuring alignment with global business priorities. If you are passionate about technology and have a proven track record in managing large-scale programs, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a forward-thinking organization.

Benefits

Yearly bonus: 20%

Company car: company funded car

Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays

Charity days: 5 days/year

Maternity leave: 52 weeks

Private pension with matching

Access to private medical and dental

Free health assessments

Share save scheme

Additional discounts on retail and services

Qualifications

• Experience in leading large-scale global programs.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft products and services.
• Ability to manage P&L and commercial strategies globally.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the strategy for Microsoft Practice.
• Lead a virtual extended team across multiple regions.
• Establish frameworks for collaboration and continuous learning.

Skills

Leadership in global matrix programmes

Microsoft products expertise

P&L management

Customer focus

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Microsoft 365

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Teams

Job description

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

Vodafone has an ambition to build a $750m Microsoft business by leveraging its global scale and incubating new capabilities. To scale this business, we plan to build in-house services and tooling across markets, build deeper and broader Microsoft expertise, and formalize best practices to ensure commercial success. To facilitate and accelerate best practice sharing and leverage our scale, we propose to build a virtual community called “the Microsoft practice”.

This role will establish the practice, owning the strategy, implementation and execution. Working closely with key Microsoft stakeholders and bringing together a community of ~100 Microsoft practioners across Vodafone footprint. Each local market will have a Microsoft Practice Leader accountable for the performance of Microsoft revenues and targets in their market. This role will lead this virtual community of pre-sales, sales, commercial, product, and partner management.

This role requires experience in building, managing and engaging large scale multi-market matrix programmes successfully and flexibility, showing comfort to adapt direction and priorities as business needs change. It requires the ability to define understand market & customer and strategic partner dynamics across multiple geographies, to define strategy and to influence internal stakeholders, external partners and other product portfolios and various Vodafone Business functions across local markets to ensure successful delivery. This role will be expected to be the thought leader on Microsoft and to have a track record of driving change and launching solutions in a highly matrixed environment.

• Define and drive the strategy for Microsoft Practice (~3-5 year horizon) in line with global business and commercial priorities (e.g. revenue growth and new customer acquisition).
• Maximise investment and return, leveraging Microsoft programs to full extend to drive growth
• Create the Future and build new capabilities through embedding knowledge and formalizing best practices to ensure consistent and replicable success across different regions. Drive an upskilling program and ensure continuous learning and development through the Microsoft Academy.
• Lead a virtual extended team with representatives from Microsoft product lines (365, Azure, Teams Phone, Security), Partnership Management, Product Marketing, Commercial, GTM, and Engineering5.
• Establish a robust framework for collaboration and continuous learning, including regular workshops, webinars, and training sessions. Implement a comprehensive feedback mechanism for constant refinement of strategies and services.
• Leverage the strategic partnership with Microsoft and the strategic partnership team to gain early access to new technologies and programs, offering cutting-edge solutions to clients.

Key performance indicators:

• Global Product revenue and P&L targets
• Successful launch of new products to market
• Product-related customer satisfaction & churn
• Market visibility and global rating of respective global products
• Products performing to cost and service level promises to to meet customer needs and be competitive in the market
• Deliver real differentiation for Vodafone via innovative products and services and a consistent, best-in-class user experience
• Information security and data privacy compliance
  

Who you are

• Experience in leading and managing large-scale global matrix programmes
• Strong understanding of Microsoft products and services, including 365, Azure, Teams Phone, and Security.
• Experience building technical and commercial capability in a large corporate and matrixed environment, especially related to the Microsoft ecosystem
• Experience and/or knowledge of Vodafone global product offerings (Cloud, Fix, UC, Cybersecurity, Digital Apps, etc)
• Ability to conceptualize new, innovative applications/services and justify design, build, and/or buy decisions using solid ROI analysis.
• Focus on customers at a global level whilst appreciating any local differences. Able to manage and understand global customer trends.
• Drives senior functional stakeholders to align with their strategy and requirements. Highly proficient at managing global strategy.
• Requires ability to manage P&L and commercials and service levels globally for their product .. This scope includes providing pricing guidelines and templates to ensure that we use all our global incentives from Microsoft to construct winning, profitable offers to customers.
• Able to spot global product and technology trends. Good understanding of key enabling product technologies
• Emphasis on resolving conflicting requirements within OpCos, Global portfolios and operations

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're 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.