Mng. Product Manager
Join Us Vodafone Business is a leading technology communications company that serves over 6m business customers across SME to multi-national segments and a wide range of industries. By connecting people, places and things, Vodafone Business helps organisations succeed in a digital world, keeping society connected. With our expertise in connectivity, our leading IoT platform and our global scale, we help businesses to deliver the results that they need to progress and thrive. We offer a broad product portfolio to meet specific needs of our customers supporting their digital transformation. Industry analysts have recognised our market leadership for years, including in Software Defined Networking. where this role vacancy has been created. The Senior Product Manager will lead, and provide E2E global lifecycle management for, one or more of our Software Defined Networking technology product lines sold globally by Vodafone Business markets. Pivotal to our future growth ambition, these products include SD-WAN, SASE, LAN, Multi-Cloud Connectivity, and are in high demand with a backdrop of accelerating cloud and digital adoption, hybrid working and business needs for improved security, agility and efficiency. This highly visible, senior product manager role requires proven experience working effectively on a global and multi-market/country basis with a wide range of senior internal and external stakeholders from eco-system partners to Technology, Product Management, GTM/Marketing, Commercial and Finance functions. What You’ll Do Location: Malaga/Madrid/London Paddington Key role accountabilities: * Act as the CEO for your product line(s) on a global basis * Build, scale and lead consistent multi-market products and manage the E2E product lifecycle * People management for the right candidate, potentially including more junior global product manager \&/or product specialist colleagues * Strong collaboration with local market product managers and cross functional teams, to ensure that your products remain relevant and deliver against our Growth, Customer and Simplification objectives Key accountabilities and decision ownership: * Driving strategy for the product line (~3-year horizon) to meet global business and commercial priorities (e.g. revenue growth, margin, customer acquisition) * Full ownership and accountability for the product commercials, business case and P\&L * Capture and translate global customer/local market needs into clear product line capabilities and features or to optimize existing products * Focus on ‘total product design’ to ensure all E2E requirements are captured including quality, safety, regulatory and sustainability * Create and maintain global product roadmaps, ensuring alignment with In-country Product Managers * Ensuring local market requirements are captured and integration, launch and go-to-market resources and budgets are planned and ring-fenced * Interface to senior leadership team/ decision boards where necessary to ensure visibility and alignment of global product requirements and roadmaps * Overseeing the agile product development phase to ensure necessary governance, funding and key deliverables are achieved on time, budget and to quality, working with their respective Senior Technology Product Lead * Acts as ‘chief publicist’ for their products to ensure all Local Market Readiness and launch requirements are consistent, scalable and aligned through their In-country Product Managers and relevant teams (incl. marketing, commercial, sales etc.) * Identifying/working with product OEM/ partners determining how they will support the creation of new products * Manage all in-life and end-of-life requirements to optimize global product performance, capability and commercials, initiating resolving actions where necessary Who You Are Core competencies, knowledge and experience: * Strong background in Enterprise Networking with experience in some or all of Network as a Service, Cloud Connectivity and Software Defined WAN/SASE products (Preferred) * History of thought leadership and driving transformational improvement * Ability to lead a product line on a global, centralised product management, basis across multiple markets * Experience developing, securing alignment, and executing product line plans * Able to spot global technology trends and has a clear understanding of relevant product technologies * Strong influencing and conflict management skills including conflicting local market requirements * The gravitas to act as the expert for their product portfolio with credibility up to customer ‘C’ level and senior leadership team (SLT) level * Appropriate experience in leading others (ideally direct reports) and virtual teams and the ability to maintain the right balance between tactical and strategic activity to remain on-top of our game and ahead of our competition * Able to manage multi-market product business cases, P\&Ls and commercials Skilled in reviewing product performance end-to-end; including market perception, channel ability to sell, channel ability to deliver, product and CX health * Product lifecycle management experience including rationalisation and in-life product growth plans Must have technical / professional qualifications: * Graduate, with minimum of a bachelor’s degree * SAFe agile trained (preferred) * Product Management (preferred Benefits * Hybrid work model * Bonus on top of the gross salary * Flexible working hours from Monday to Thursday, and an intensive schedule on Fridays * Intensive Summer Schedule during July and August * Up to 20 days per year of 100% remote work from other locations * Private Health and Life Insurance for employees and Family * 25 vacation days, plus December 24th and 31st off * Optional Pension Plan * Access to an online learning platform for continuous training REF: 282743 Please, apply with an English version of your CV. 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. 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.