Project Manager

Location: Farnborough, Newbury, Oxford or Bristol (Onsite)
Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits
Working hours: Full Time (Mon-Fri 37.5 hours per week)

Who We Are

We’re a global technology communications company that empowers people and businesses to stay connected and thrive in a digital world. With a focus on innovation, sustainability and earning customer loyalty, we leverage cutting-edge technology to offer products and services that enhance communication and improve lives.

At Vodafone UK, diversity isn’t just a buzzword, it is core to who we are as a company. We’re proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work and are committed to driving inclusion for all; creating a workplace that is fully representative of the communities and customers we serve.

Join Vodafone Business Security Enhanced (VBSE) for Vodafone UK and support in providing world-class Secure Solutions for our Enterprise clients.

What you’ll do

This role will lead and take ownership of Vodafone Business Security Enhanced customer projects, or lead a workstream on large complex programmes. The role will adhere to programme delivery methodology, in such a way that each underlying project or workstream is accomplished to the complete satisfaction of the customer, on schedule, quality assured and within budget. Typical contract value(s) £10m+ with the responsibility of managing large virtual teams and reporting to C level executives. Experience of delivering a range of portfolio solutions and non standard solutions.

Planning:
• Prepare and deliver Project Plan (outlining the activities, tasks, dependencies and timeframes) as to be jointly baselined with the Customer and placed under change control.

Implementation and Control:
• Lead the virtual project team (as the overall primary point of contact and escalation point), coordinate all project delivery activities and ensure that all key milestones are met.
• Execute the project governance and chair both operational and strategic project review boards.

Project Closure, Handover & Review:
• Ensure that a clean hand-over to the Customer & Service Management team at the close of each project is facilitated

Manage Risks, Actions, Issues & Dependencies (throughout project lifecycle)
• Assess, record & mitigate risks / dependencies against programme on-time delivery, quality &/or budget

Who you are

• Extensive Project Management skills and experience required.
• Exposure to commercial management contractual negotiation experience
• Experience of delivering mobility, LAN, WAN, IPT, Security and managed solutions desired.
• Build strong relationships with customers, delivery partners and external vendors.
• Ability to manage from a distance, including resources who work for other organisations
• Strong written and oral communications skills (including C-level communication) required.
• PRINCE2 Practitioner or PMI-PMP required
• Security Clearance: This position requires the person to hold or to be eligible to undergo UK Developed Vetting (DV) clearance
• Experience of customer delivery into the Defence Sector

What we offer

We believe that taking care of our employees is the key to their success. That is why we offer an excellent remuneration and bonus package with up to 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family, including employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes. We take pride in our commitment to supporting you at every stage of your career by providing top of the range learning and development tools and market leading parental leave policies.

Together we can

Vodafone UK 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 regulators 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 (https://careers.vodafone.com/uk/applying-to-vodafone/) for guidance.

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