Network Investment Planning Manager

Location: Newbury / Blended home working
Salary: Competitive + Vodafone Benefits
Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week – Mon to Fri)

• Blended

Vodafone UK’s blended working approach means you’ll come to your contracted hub location office as and when needed to get things done for your role and for tasks that require it, otherwise you will be able to work from home. Our ‘Office in a Box’ home-working kit will be available for all who need it during your onboarding journey.

Network Strategy and Engineering provide International connectivity, voice, data and messaging services to support local markets, enterprise and wholesale carrier customers, delivering 1.500+ projects per year to fulfil the needs of 140 million customers using our Mobile, Fixed, TV and International Connectivity Services. The team are responsible for all Engineering activities including the architecture, planning, design, testing, delivery, and lifecycle management of the associated Network infrastructure.

What will you be doing?

The Network Planning and Business Partnership (NPBP) team is responsible for shaping the Network Evolution Plan, prepare and manage the UK Network 1-3-year budget submission ensuring alignment with Group and Local market requirements. The team also act as the SPOC for managing KPI reporting on Network rollout status.

You will support the preparation and approval of the annual DB/Long Range Plan and in-year plan changes across the Engineering Domains. You will engage with the team in the prioritization of the budget plan to meet the financial envelope, ensuring all cross-domain dependencies are properly captured and priorities are validated against the Tech2025 Strategy and market demand.

You will be responsible of managing the Network Strategy and Engineering budget mobilisation through the UK Business Case approval governance process, together with budget execution and reporting, and supports the submission of KPIs into the Group reporting tool.

Who are we looking for?

• We are looking for someone with a financial & planning mind-set to work to ensure the budget for UK market network investments and plans are efficiently submitted on time. This role requires commercial business acumen and knowledge of the overall telecoms market, who is passionate about technology, and high experience in budget planning (capex & opex).
• Technical understanding of Mobile & Fixed Networks and supporting architecture.
• Strong Network Planning Background including experience of creation of both short range and long range Network Investment Plans and Cost Modelling.
• Strong numerical ability, an excellent capacity to analyse data and numbers (both technical KPIs and Financial/Budgetary information).
• Computer skills, from data mining to creating reports and spreadsheets, use computer programs for a large proportion of the work.
• Excellent presentation, communication and influence skills. Ability to agree targets vs. achievements across senior stakeholders.
• Experience of being well organized, self-motivated, adaptive/flexible and able to perform under pressure in a highly dynamic organization.

What’s in it for you?

An excellent remuneration and bonus package with 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’re also proud to provide a Reconnect programme with flexibility to support individuals returning to work after a career break and our market-leading parental leave policies. We’re committed to supporting you throughout every step of your career at Vodafone.

Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best talent. Inclusion for all is a key pillar of our purpose with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage growth and progression for all employees.

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.

Posting end date: 3rd 2022
Recruiter: Jean Kent
Email: [email protected]