Role purpose:
The role is responsible for understanding Vodafone Business strategy,
market/technology trends, competitive landscape and, working with VBG P&S
Senior Strategy Managers, employing this insight to create innovative,
practical strategies that will drive growth across the VBG P&S portfolio. The
role will be responsible for demonstrating customer focus and external
orientation to bring new ideas and thinking to Vodafone Business.
This role sits within the VBG P&S Strategy team working along-side VBG Senior
Strategy Managers. The role will employ tried and tested methodologies for
gathering insight, reviewing strategic options and assessing the most
attractive and practical medium and long-term steps for Vodafone that will
drive profitable growth above market rates for our portfolio. This role will
have a particular focus on market analysis, competitor analysis, understanding
customer needs and developing best practice methodologies for portfolio
strategy development.

The role will be responsible for providing input and agreeing:
* Market, competitor and customer analysis that would input into our strategic projects
* Running strategic projects - either stand-alone within VBG P&S or jointly providing portfolio leadership into projects led by Group strategy
* Business cases for new strategic product ideas, engaging and collaborating with markets to validate the opportunity
* Supporting the strategic input for every market's ‎9+‎15 planning cycle, ensuring they take into consideration both Global and local market trends
* Aligning with VBG P&S Product Managers & Portfolio leads to ensure full alignment and adoption of strategies developed by the team

Key accountabilities and decision ownership
* Distil market analysis, customer and competitive intelligence, industry and technology trends into usable insight for compelling strategy formulation, while interlocking the strategy with local markets.
* Renowned for being a clear, influential voice among internal stakeholders.
* Define strategic guidelines for customer (CX), partner & ecosystem, GTM and commercial strategy for our Mobility services reflecting the product portfolio strategy
* Identify opportunities to continually improve the market perception of key capabilities
Core competencies required;
* Experience at formulating strategy as part of a product management/ commercial/ marketing position and/or through a management consulting/ strategy role
* Understanding of our products and services; high level of commercial expertise is required including understanding of product P&L, unit economics, profitability and product lifecycle management
* Strong focus on execution, with a result driven attitude and detail oriented approach, while being comfortable to navigate through ambiguity to define direction and recommendations in an effective and timely manner
* Strong capability in articulating complex ideas with authority and making the case for change; Experience at presenting at Board level with customers and internally
* Strong presentation and influencing skills and capacity to drive change in a highly complex organisational environment due to dispersed geographies, OpCo based organisational design and multiple stakeholders with different priorities

Must have technical / professional qualifications:
* Excellent knowledge and understanding of the telecommunications industry with strong focus on Mobility
* Team leadership experience and proven ability to operate within a matrix organisation
* Honours degree as a minimum
* MBA preferable

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