Commercial Lead

Business Area: Local Consumer Business Unit

Posting Country: United Kingdom

Full Time / Part Time: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

At Vodafone, we're working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this.

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

Location: London, Speechmark + Hybrid
Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits
Working Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday

Hybrid
At Vodafone UK we believe that through collaboration and connection with our colleagues we can achieve great things. Our hybrid working approach allows our people to work both in the office and at home, providing the flexibility and resources you need to succeed in your role. We don't require you to be in on specific days; instead, we ask people to come into the office 2-3 days each week, on average 8 days a month. Our "Office in a Box" home working kit will provide you with everything you need, no matter where you are.

Who We Are
We're a global technology communications company that empowers people and businesses to stay connected and thrive in a digital world. With a focus on innovation, sustainability and earning customer loyalty, we leverage cutting-edge technology to offer products and services that enhance communication and improve lives.

What you'll do
You will lead a team of Commercial Managers to scope, scale (case) and roadmap these new opportunities. The work will be wide spread and lead to business impacting decision making and P&L performance, and so requires the team to be efficient, driven, and fully involved in the mobile market landscape and their stakeholders. The team will mainly spread over this categorisation.

• Managed a team to define the proposition and commercial strategy for the biggest propositions across the mobile portfolio - including defining the customer insights and market opportunities, scoping proposition initiatives and how this fits into the overall mobile strategy, working closely with the Product Owners and Proposition Managers
• Specific ownership for defining and qualifying business case assumptions then guiding the finance decision support teams through business case creation and senior stakeholder signoff
• Ownership of sizing and prioritisation of contenders for Capex funding. Ensuring all opportunities are effectively sized to drive the best ROI.
• Proactively share best practice and insights from the market, leverage relationships with other markets to bring the best ideas back into the UK.
• Ensure that proposition roadmap is aligned with our budget and forecasts, that KPIs are clearly identified and trackable
• Proactively keep abreast of latest of proposition and commercial trading performance, and customer behaviours to provide stimulus for future proposition development.
• Continuously challenge Consumer to think about long term strategic decision making and not just short term fixes

Who you are

• Strong commercial acumen & experience managing and implementing commercial change across the business
• Commercial business case / strategic business casing experience either first hand or in support of finance colleagues
• Experience evaluating market performance and tracking competitor developments
• Proven track record in consumer commercial / proposition or product development
• P&L management, forecasting and delivery
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills

We believe that everyone has valuable contributions to make. As a Disability Confident Employer, we actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply for positions within our team. Through the 'Offer an Interview' scheme, we aim to offer interviews to a fair and proportionate number of applicants with disabilities who best meet the essential criteria for our vacancies. If you would like to participate in the scheme, you will have the opportunity to indicate this on your application.

What we offer
We believe that taking care of our employees is the key to their success. That is why we offer an excellent remuneration and bonus package with up to 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 take pride in our commitment to supporting you at every stage of your career by providing top of the range learning and development tools and market leading parental leave policies.

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.

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, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website () for guidance.

Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.