VodafoneThree - Senior Cloud & Security Portfolio Manager

Business Area: Local Vodafone Business Unit
Posting Country: United Kingdom
Full Time / Part Time: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: London or Newbury (Hybrid)
Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits
Working Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday

At Vodafone, we're working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this.

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

The Senior Cloud & Security Portfolio Manager is responsible for defining and delivering the product development roadmap across a diverse portfolio including Security, Private, Public Cloud, SaaS and managed services that supports Vodafone Business UK's growth ambitions. Working in close partnership with commercial, sales, and operational teams, the role is pivotal in launching new products, optimising the performance of in life products and driving commercial success.

This role demands a deep understanding of customer needs, market dynamics, and the competitive landscape, combined with a relentless focus on execution turning insight into action and product strategy into results.

A key part of the role is to evangelise the portfolio across the business, articulating the value to customers, and feeding insight back into the roadmap. Ultimately, the Senior manager for cloud, security, SaaS & managed services portfolio is accountable for delivering a market leading portfolio that stands out in a crowded market, serving all our segments and accelerates profitable growth. Key accountabilities include:

• Strategy - Develop and own the product strategy for the Cloud and Security portfolio, ensuring alignment with Vodafone Business UK's strategic goals, customer needs, market trends, and the evolving technology landscape.
• Roadmap - Define and deliver the product roadmap across cloud, security, SaaS & managed services portfolio, managing associated capex and opex to ensure efficient and effective investment.
• Partnerships - Collaborating with the Partnerships and Alliances team to shape and deliver strategic SaaS initiatives with Microsoft and Vodafone Group, to enhance portfolio innovation and customer value.
• Lifecycle - Lead end to end product lifecycle management, from new feature development and continuous improvement to the launch and retirement of products and services, including their operating models.
• Leadership - Leadership of a virtual team of commercial and operational functions, making sure they are lined up to support the portfolio strategy and inter locked with Sales.
• Commercial - Own the financial performance of the portfolio, including revenue, margin, and customer adoption, and take proactive steps to optimise commercial outcomes.
• Enablement - Evangelise the portfolio, equipping commercial and sales teams with the knowledge and tools to effectively position and sell Vodafone's offerings, and feeding insights back into the roadmap.
• Market Dynamics - Continuously monitor market dynamics and customer feedback, using insights to evolve the portfolio and maintain a competitive edge.

• Significant experience as a product manager and product team leadership
• Excellent knowledge across products including Security, SaaS, Managed Services, Private and Public Cloud
• Strong understanding of Data Centres and optimisation.
• Understands customer requirements, purchasing criteria and buying behaviours; considers variations across different segments and industries for their portfolio.
• Setting vision, product strategy & commercial strategy for total product portfolio aligned to external market and competitive context, customer requirements and current and future internal capabilities.
• Able to connect the dots beyond role and function to do what's right for employees and customers.
• Managing end to end product lifecycle from innovation to retirement and rationalisation. Driving investment and divestment cases. Owning and growing portfolio P&L
• Understands importance of an effective cross functional operating model and works across functions to define and deliver our customers & product North Star
• Ability to operate at Business Board level within Vodafone to determine strategic plan and investments; interfacing with Global and Local LT, customers and partners, and coaching and mentoring cross functional teams.

We care about our people's success by offering great pay, bonuses, up to 28 days off plus bank holidays, and paid time for charity work. You can personalise our benefits for you and your family, like discounts, vouchers, a pension plan and loads more. We help with your career through our amazing learning tools and top notch parental leave policies.

We are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulator's standards.

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, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website () for guidance.

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