Strategic Threat Intelligence Specialist

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

To reduce Vodafone’s cyber risk exposure by delivering forward-looking, strategic threat intelligence that informs executive decision-making, control investment, and global defensive priorities.

The Strategic Threat Intelligence Specialist operates at Group level, analysing geopolitical, sector-specific, and adversary trends to anticipate threats before they materialise. The role ensures intelligence drives measurable risk reduction across Vodafone’s global footprint.

• Produce strategic intelligence assessments on priority threat actors, campaigns, and emerging risks impacting telco, network and IT infrastructure.
• Mature and structure Vodafone’s intelligence-sharing relationships across internal stakeholders to ensure intelligence is actionable and consistently drives risk reduction.
• Strengthen and grow external intelligence partnerships with entities such as NCSC, ISACs, peer telcos, and intelligence providers.
• Establish feedback loops to measure whether shared intelligence results in detection improvements, vulnerability remediation, control uplift, or mission activity.
• Translate geopolitical developments, sector targeting trends, and adversary evolution into clear risk implications for Vodafone’s networks, platforms, estate, and supply chain.
• Brief senior leadership and stakeholders with concise, risk-based reporting that supports strategic decision-making.
• Support the development of structured threat missions aligned to priority adversaries, ensuring intelligence requirements are clearly defined and outcomes are tracked.

Who you are

• Strong understanding of nation-state and financially motivated threat actors targeting telecoms and critical national infrastructure.
• Experience in building or maturing intelligence-sharing processes, including defining requirements, standardising outputs, and measuring impact.
• Ability to combine multiple intelligence sources into clear, defensible strategic assessments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across technical and executive audiences.
• Experience engaging with external intelligence communities and leveraging trusted relationships to enhance internal security posture.

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: 10%
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

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.

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.