Programme Manager

Role Profile

Title - Programme Manager

Location- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Reports to- Senior Programme Manager

Business Area- VBTS

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

The Project Lead manages end-to-end projects (e.g. a system implementation) and has responsibility for the planning, coordination, and deployment of all releases into production within a particular domain. They identify, manage, and mitigate individual projects, programmes or cross-programme risks and issues in order to facilitate the on-time and on-budget delivery of capabilities and features aligned to the business outcome vision. The Project Lead focusses on successful delivery of the whole of the proposed change, through effective co-ordination of the programme or project tasks, management of their inter-dependencies and holding project stakeholders to account for delivering their individual activities effectively. Typically reports to Senior Project/Programme Manager.

Who you are

• Accountable for defining and leading the programme/project, cutting across multiple channels, products, systems and departments, to time, budget, and scope from initiation through to completion;
• Responsible for overall integrity and coherence of the programme/project and executing the programme/project vision, mapping all initiatives and taking accountabilities for all dependencies and alignment.
• Runs a high performing, collaborative, delivery team, who may be directly managed or matrix managed;
• Drives the delivery of the programme/project through active management ensuring milestones are met to time, cost and quality;
• Defines release readiness requirements against business outcome needs and validates readiness before release into production;
• Ensures overall integrity of the project and compliance to Standards;
• Monitors performance across programmes in the portfolio to enable tracking of the strategy execution;
• Uses best practice knowledge to generate analytics and maintain a common set of practices, principles and templates for managing, anticipating and exceeding the needs of the business;
• Possesses understanding of frameworks (e.g. Waterfall/Agile) and methodologies (e.g. Prince2);
• Demonstrates strong communication skills, coordinates project stakeholders and may also act as lead representative in key governance and decision meetings;
• Maintains strong relations and works closely with stakeholders across Vodafone and external partners in order to ensure alignment with the broader commercial objectives of the business.

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.

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.