NSE & Market Integr.Planning Team Leader

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

Networks are our key asset and enabler to better serve new and existing customers. Vodafone is a rapidly changing company that constantly invests in improving and optimising the networks. As part of this effort, we are looking for someone with a financial & planning mind-set to work within the Planning, Demand, Transform & Delivery, reporting to the Network Market Partner for Italy, Greece and ensure the budget market network investments and plans are efficiently submitted on time. This role requires a candidate with business acumen and knowledge of the overall telecoms market in Italy, Greece who is passionate about technology, and high experience in budget planning (Capex & Opex).
The candidate will oversee the annual CAPEX and OPEX budget/LRP planning process for Greece & IT ensuring alignment with overall company objectives and regional business goals, drive/manage the preparation and approval of the annual DB/LRP and in-year plan changes across all Network functions. He/she will assist the CNOs in the prioritization of the budget plan to meet the financial envelope, ensuring all cross-domain dependencies are properly captured and priorities are validated against the Technology Strategy guidance and market demand. The candidate will be responsible for managing both the NW financial envelope for Greece and the NSE budget planning for Italy covering the full process from NEP to LRP/DB and operational financial envelope execution.

• More specifically you will:
  Manage the consolidation and harmonization of the Capex plan across all NW functions, collaborating with Finance to optimize OPEX.
• Support the CNO in the prioritization of the NW plan, providing scenarios to align with budget constraints and overseeing the submission of the NW consolidated (DB/LRP) plan to
• Finance, including KPIs submission in OHP.
• Oversee the NSE budget planning from NEP to execution, ensuring the inclusion of DB/LRP budget and KPIs submission. Ensure that all dependencies across NSE domains are captured cross-functionally during the budget preparation.
• Support plan submission, in-year budget tracking, and re-prioritization, aligning with Vodafone's strategy and market competition, while focusing on cost reduction, ROCE improvement, and reduced TTM.
• Manage Finance support during both OPEX/CAPEX plan submissions and any specific ad-hoc cost analysis or audit exercises.
• Ensure alignment with local markets, manage demand forecasts and delivery, handle ad hoc demands, support marketing with network announcements, and assist the CNO in aligning network plans.

Who you are

• More than 3 years of experience in network planning or a similar role
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field
• Proven planning experience with the ability to work effectively under pressure
• Strong financial acumen
• Knowledge of end-to-end (E2E) network architecture (desirable)
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to build and maintain effective cross-functional relationships
• Proven experience in executive-level reporting
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel & English
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong executive presentation capability

Key Deliverables:

• Supports the CNO in prioritizing the NW plan, providing budget-aligned scenarios, and overseeing the submission of the NW consolidated (DB/LRP) plan and KPIs to Finance
• Oversees NSE budget planning from NEP to execution, ensuring DB/LRP budget and KPIs submission, capturing dependencies across NSE domains, and aligning with Vodafone's strategy
• Manages Finance support for OPEX/CAPEX plan submissions and ad-hoc cost analysis or audit exercises
• Ensures alignment with local markets, manages demand forecasts and delivery, handles ad hoc demands, and assists the CNO in aligning network plans.

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

• Award-winning work environment -certified #1 Top Employer in Greece
• Competitive pay, bonus & remuneration package
• Private Health & Medical Insurance
• Hybrid way of working: a blend of remote and office-based working, including the option to work from abroad
• Unlimited access to learning resources and trainings
• Vodafone Parental Leave: 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave to all employees regardless of gender, sexual orientation or length of service
• Spirit of Vodafone Day: one day each quarter dedicated to your personal development
• Extra days off: Vodafone Day, Family Day, Volunteering Day
• Office amenities (subject to the office location): such as restaurant, beauty corner, gym and parking
• Special employee offers and discounts

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.