Senior Risk Manager

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

• Act as a strategic partner enabling informed decision‑making aligned to Vodafone's strategy and Group Risk priorities.
• Contribute to the design, evolution and implementation of the Global Risk Management Strategy and supporting Framework, incorporating emerging risk sensing, enhanced risk taxonomy, and integrated assurance priorities.
• Lead top‑down and bottom‑up risk assessments across markets and Group functions, embedding consistency, aggregation of principal risks, and thematic insights.
• Prepare high‑quality, insight‑led governance reporting for the Board, ExCo and assurance committees, ensuring clear articulation of risk exposures, appetite, controls, scenarios and required actions.
• Shape and strengthen the global risk community, driving capability uplift, consistent application of the risk framework, and embedding of Group Risk’s maturity roadmap.
• Partner with Strategy, Finance, Technology and Commercial teams to embed risk analysis into strategic bets, investment cases, budget cycles and major transformation programmes.
• Support development of forward‑looking strategic risk intelligence, scenario planning and stress testing to inform strategic planning.

Who you are

• We are looking for candidates with experience managing a broad range of enterprise level risks in large, complex organisations. Backgrounds that include exposure to strategic, operational, technology and transformation-related risks tend to be particularly well suited to the role
• Able to synthesise complex information into clear, concise insights for senior executive audiences.
• Experienced in designing and implementing risk frameworks, taxonomies and control environments across large organisations.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and partner across diverse functions to embed risk into decision‑making.
• Strong analytical capability with experience in scenario planning, emerging risk identification and thematic analysis.
• Capable of building and leading a global community of risk professionals, driving consistency, maturity uplift and capability building.

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

• Discretionary yearly bonus: 20%
• Company car: company‑funded car of £580 per month + private fuel or cash alternative of £630 per month.
• Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + ability to buy/sell/carry over 5 days.
• Charity days: 5 per year.
• Maternity/adoption leave: 52 weeks (39 weeks fully paid + 13 weeks half‑pay) + 6 months working 4 days/paid 5.
• Paternity leave: 16 weeks fully paid.
• Private medical family plan fully paid.
• Private pension with 2:1 matching up to 10%.
• Access to private dental, health assessments, share save schemes and additional 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.