Fixed Network Program and Transformation Lead

Aggregate function:  Technology
Business Area:  VT Netw. Strategy Archit. Eng.
Posting Country:  Romania
Date Posted:  4 Feb 2025
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.

Your Day to day

•You will be responsible of analysis and set-up of strategic, cross-divisional and cross-country projects, including the creation of project and program structures.

•You will be responsible of elaboration of suitable project and program structures as well as ensuring process-compliant project implementation by establishing, determining and planning project plans with the involvement of the impacted departments, external suppliers and stakeholders.

•You will be responsible of implementation of project and program reporting, in particular SteerCo and divisional reporting.

•You will be responsible of implementation of all project/program-related Vodafone processes as well as the Vodafone project management methodology

•You will coordinate Life Cycle Management process over all the verticals over Fixed Access Engineering with aligning NSE Network Planning, Demand, Delivery & Transformation teams.

•You will coordinate and support  Privacy and Security Management processes over Fixed Access Engineering while aligning related stake holders.

•You will set up a consistent operational governance on how Fixed Access Engineering interlock to other Vodafone vertical domains and teams

•You will identify and drive Technical harmonization initiatives among Countries within fixed Networks, in order to push synergies, save CAPEX and OPEX and simplify processes.

•You will help with support the tools and automation processes of Fixed Access Engineering

With these activities you will have a great impact on our business

•You will participate in the integration of acquired networks across European markets, entailing network evolution, organization model, 3rd party agreements, outsourcing models, processes, tools, and business case alignment.

•You will work close with Local stakeholders in the countries (Network Deployment, IT) and in NSE (E2E Solutions, INP & OP…) among others, as well as the Integration Management Office for Current and future Company integrations.

•You will drive harmonization across countries within Fixed Access Engineering, identifying synergy and consolidation opportunities and boosting the implementation of projects, in line with NSE best practices and NGA strategy in all OPCOs.

•You will identify and push engineering efficiency initiatives, and assure execution of committed savings

•You will promote legacy networks renewal and migration to approved solutions/vendors, through feasibility analysis and business case assessment.

With these skills you are a great candidate

•Deep Knowledge of the European Telecommunication business and Telco Network Architecture

•Strategical view of Next Generation Access networks and services, future directions of these technologies and how they add value to our customers

•Capable of building a true end-2-end view and understanding of Fixed Access networks and convergence opportunities.

•Persuasive communicator able to manage many stakeholders in Group Commercial, Local Markets and Technology

•Good coordination and teamwork

•Career degree

•Knowledge of telecoms technologies

•Strong experience working in multi-country engineering teams.

•Fluent in English.

Sounds like the perfect job? We’ve got even more to offer:

•Work from Home – hybrid approach  

•Medical and dental services 

•Life and hospitalization insurance 

•Dedicated employee phone subscription 

•Special discounts for gyms and retailers 

•Annual Company Bonus 

•Ongoing Education – we continuously invest in you to ensure you have everything needed to excel on the job and enhance your skills  

•You get to work with tried and trusted web-technology 

•Getting in on the ground floor of a technology changing company 

•Flexible Vacation – Take time off when you need it, we trust you  

•Special Paternal Program - 4 months of paid paternity leave 

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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.