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Strategy & Transformation Manager

Posting Country: South Africa

Date Posted: 13 Mar 2025

Full Time / Part Time: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

At Vodacom, 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.

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When it comes to putting people first, we're number 1.

The number 1 Top Employer in South Africa.
Certified by the Top Employer Institute 2025.

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Vodacom is embarking on an exciting journey to redefine its business and reinvent the face of telecoms in South Africa. This journey will include the development of new revenue streams, business models and digital innovations, including IoT, Digital Media, ICT, Financial Services, and digital/ICT applications across various industry verticals. Vodacom’s Group Strategy team is a high-performance team that is leading this journey by providing insight, thought leadership and strategic direction to the Group.

The Group Strategy and Innovation team is looking for an experienced strategist to help accelerate our ambitious transformation as Strategy Manager in the Group Strategy team. The Transformation Office within Group Strategy will deliver transformation and change for Vodacom through the development of strategic initiatives and establishment of implementation monitoring capability within Group and across our 8 operating companies.

The objective of the transformation unit is to provide dedicated, project-based support that combines strategy development with implementation support, and involves:

Driving common understanding of a problem
Solving the problem through structured and aligned initiatives
Assigning ownership to initiatives
Standing up cross-functional teams to deliver initiatives
Driving accountability through structured and rigorous governance under-pinned by KPIs
Creating a single source of truth to measure delivery
Driving change management, building cross-functional incentives and capability building
The manager will work closely with the Managing Executive in driving the Transformation Agenda.

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Transformation Strategy Development: Lead the development of transformation strategies as required by the business within Group and across our 8 markets. This will include issue diagnostics, initiatives design and recommendations, communication and acquiring necessary key stakeholder buy in and development of the implementation roadmap
Establishment of Execution Excellence Capability: Support markets in establishing capability to drive and monitor the execution of key strategic projects.
Group Wide Major Strategic Projects Oversight: Create visibility on the execution of major strategic projects across the organisation to ensure diligent and disciplined execution as per ambitions stated in our Strategy

The role requires the incumbent to effectively deliver multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring consistent high-quality results and effective stakeholder engagement. The incumbent is expected to have significant and interactions with EXCO and senior leaders within Vodacom and is required to have exceptional communication skills.

The manager must be an influential thought leader, who is able to effectively work in and lead teams to drive high-performance and effort, and lead by living the values in the Spirit of Vodacom.

Your responsibilities will include:

Impact to the business

Deliver strategic projects within Vodacom Group
Formulate business issues into robust and quantified decision frameworks to identify options with preferred solutions
Identify and analyse business trends and understand significance and business implications
Identify and develop the supporting business case underpinning strategic opportunities
Provide information and analysis to support key strategic decisions and long term planning implementation

Customers, Suppliers & Third Parties

Work with suppliers to effectively deliver results (including advisors, lawyers and financial institutions)

Teamwork

Coordinate multi-functional teams (Commercial, Technology, Finance etc.)
Execute and drive projects towards clear conclusion, results and recommendations
Work effectively within the organization to build consensus and ideas

Innovation and Change

Maintain personal motivation and drive to take ideas from conception to implementation
Drive new thinking and innovative thinking in the business
Take personal risks to ensure issues addressed properly and fully
Be willing to make important decisions under pressure, sometimes without full information being available

Communication

Communicate effectively at all levels, from staff to CEO level
Conduct a systemic evaluation and presentation of business opportunities that highlights key risks/opportunities
Structure ideas, recommendations and written arguments into compelling storylines that facilitate effective decision-making

Leadership

Bring best-practice management and thought leadership to influence teams’ output
Collaborate with multi-functional teams on best practice & alignment with Vodafone strategy requirements

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

Degree in a financial/numerate discipline – e.g., Commerce, Science, Engineering
Postgraduate qualification (e.g., Masters, MBA, CA(SA)) beneficial

Emerging strategy leader with strong strategy or business development experience at management level
Min 5 years’ experience in a corporate strategy function in an established corporate

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Min 3 years’ experience in management consulting at a leading consulting/advisory firm

Competency / Performance Drivers

Strong analytical skills
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills (presentations, report writing, etc.)
Research ability (‘curious & questioning mind’)
Strong project management
Effective teamwork
Excellent influencing & negotiation skills

Technical / Professional Expertise

Understanding of Strategy process and best practice – including strategy development, implementation and communication
Understand market structures, competition dynamics and consumer behaviours
Working knowledge of the market, players and trends in Telecoms industry
Background in Management Consulting, or relevant experience in a senior corporate strategy role

We make an impact by offering:

Enticing incentive programs and competitive benefit packages
Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies

Closing date for Applications: 20 March 2025.

The base location for this role is Midrand, Vodacom Campus.

The company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates, and values diversity & inclusion.

Commitment from Vodacom

Vodacom is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a flexible, motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognized, developed and rewarded. We believe that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business and we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment which respects, values, celebrates and makes the most of people’s individual differences - we are not only multinational but multicultural too. At Vodacom you will have access to our excellent flexible benefits programme that you would expect from any global company.

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