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Shape the inorganic growth agenda for Vodafone IoT as a Senior Manager Corporate Development based in London, United Kingdom. In this full-time role, you will lead M&A, strategic partnerships, and target origination, working closely with executive leadership to drive global connectivity solutions.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in strategy consulting, corporate development, or a similar strategic role.
  • Proven track record in M&A, deal execution, and post-merger integration.
  • Experience in IoT, telecoms, or technology sectors.
  • Strong financial acumen and stakeholder management skills.
  • Master's in Business Administration (MBA) from a leading business school is desirable.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • M&A and Transaction Execution: Lead Vodafone IoT's inorganic growth opportunities including target origination, due diligence, and transaction execution in partnership with Group M&A.
  • Strategic Opportunity Assessment: Conduct rigorous analysis of acquisitions, investments, and partnerships to evaluate market attractiveness and value creation potential.
  • Cross-functional Alignment: Align Legal, HR, Finance, Product, Technology, Sales, and Commercial teams to successfully realize value from strategic opportunities.
  • Stakeholder Communication: Translate complex insights into compelling narratives for internal and external stakeholders like Vodafone Group and Liberty Global.
  • Potential transition routes: People from corporate strategy, investment banking, or venture capital roles may bring strong financial modeling, transaction execution, and market analysis skills, alongside meeting the required strategic and sector experience.

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.

Joining Vodafone IoT’s team means being part of a growing, purpose-driven organisation at the forefront of innovation. Our teams are made up of curious minds, problem-solvers, and forward-thinkers across the world who thrive in a collaborative, high-performing, inclusive environment.

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What you’ll do

As Senior Manager IoT Corporate Development, you will shape and deliver Vodafone IoT’s inorganic growth agenda, identifying and progressing strategic opportunities that accelerate growth, strengthen core capabilities and enhance Vodafone IoT’s competitive position. Working closely with the IoT Leadership Team, Group M&A and cross-functional experts, you will translate market insight and strategic priorities into high-value partnerships, investments and M&A opportunities, from origination through execution and value creation.

  • Strategic Execution: Deliver the corporate development strategy for Vodafone IoT, aligned with IoT Strategy, Group priorities. Portfolio choices and evolving market opportunities.
  • Corporate Development & Transactions: Lead Vodafone IoT’s inorganic growth opportunities in partnership with Group M&A, including target origination, strategic assessment, business case development, due diligence, transaction execution and integration planning.
  • Strategic Opportunity Assessment: Lead rigorous analysis of acquisition, investment and partnership opportunities to assess market attractiveness, strategic fit, capability enhancement, value creation potential and execution risk.
  • Cross-functional Alignment: Align Legal, HR, Finance, Product, Technology, Sales and Commercial teams to evaluate, execute and realise value from strategic opportunities, ensuring decisions are commercially robust and operationally deliverable.
  • Communication & Stakeholder Engagement: Translate complex insights into compelling, fact-based narratives for internal and external stakeholders, including Vodafone Group and Liberty Global.

Who you are

  • 7+ years of experience in strategy consulting, corporate development, or a similar strategic role.
  • Proven track record in M&A, including deal execution and post-merger integration.
  • Strong financial acumen and analytical capabilities.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
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Vodafone

Sr Manager Corporate Development IoT

London
On-site
Yearly bonus: 20%, Car allowance / company car of £580-£630/month
  • Experience in IoT, telecoms, or technology sectors.
  • Ability to drive alignment across multiple teams / functions – internally and externally.
  • Desirable: Master’s in business administration (MBA) from a leading business school desirable
  • 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

    • 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 + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
    • Charity days: 5 days/year
    • Maternity leave: 52 weeks: the first 13 weeks are fully paid, followed by 26 weeks of half pay
    • Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
    • Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
    • Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan

    Who we are

    With more than 200 million device connections around the world, Vodafone IoT is a global leader in managed IoT connectivity – connecting people, places and devices. We help create a smarter, more sustainable, and more connected world - from enabling smart cities and autonomous vehicles to transforming healthcare, agriculture, and logistics. Our work shapes the digital future of businesses – allowing them to effectively manage and monitor their operations using IoT. As a global leader in IoT connectivity – operating in more than 180 countries across the globe - we empower individuals, businesses, and entire industries to unlock their potential through technology that’s secure, scalable, and future-ready. Vodafone IoT is a subsidiary of Vodafone Group.

    Vodafone Group is 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.

    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, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

    Together we can.

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