IT Project Lead
Who we are
VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) is a strategic arm of Vodafone Group Plc, creating value for customers by delivering intelligent solutions through Talent, Technology & Transformation.
As the largest shared services organisation in the global telco industry with 30,000 FTE, our portfolio of next-generation solutions and services are designed in partnership with customers across Vodafone Group, local markets, and partner markets to simplify and drive growth. With our strategic partner Accenture, we work alongside our Vodafone customers, other Telco and tech companies to drive transformation, meet the challenges of our industry and ensure we stay relevant and resilient. This partnership is a unique, industry-first model which brings together the best of in-house and 3rd party capability.
We work with customers across 28 countries from 10 VOIS locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, Spain, Turkey, UK, Germany, Ireland, and with a network of teams in Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, and Portugal.
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About this Role
What you’ll do
- Lead and coordinate the end-to-end delivery of one or more complex IT projects across international and cross-functional teams.
- Manage IT solution teams throughout the design phase, ensuring solution requirements are defined, agreed, and delivered.
- Plan, monitor, and track solution design and development activities.
- Create and maintain key project documentation, including RDD, SDD and IDD documents.
- Prepare governance deliverables and ensure compliance with project management standards.
- Organise project kick-off activities involving development, testing, IT operations, cloud infrastructure, vendors, and other key stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans using waterfall, Agile, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
- Facilitate recurring project governance and progress review meetings.
- Deliver accurate project and programme status reporting to stakeholders.
- Manage project scope, timelines, dependencies, milestones, and delivery commitments.
- Consolidate and validate IT effort and cost estimations from vendors and delivery teams.
- Prepare project cost sheets and support funding approval processes.
- Monitor project expenditure, purchase orders, goods receipts, statements of work, and supplier payments.
- Manage project financial performance for budgets typically ranging from €500k to €10m.
- Maintain and drive resolution of project risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies (RAID).
- Engage security stakeholders and ensure all required security deliverables are completed and compliant.
- Support test planning, test execution oversight, validation activities, and test completion reporting where applicable.
- Coordinate delivery across solution vendors, software partners, infrastructure teams, product teams, architects, finance teams, and operational stakeholders.
- Build collaborative relationships across international matrix teams of 20 to 50 individuals.
- Escalate risks and issues appropriately to ensure informed decision-making and delivery continuity.
Who you are
- Proven experience in project scope definition, detailed planning, programme execution, financial management, and stakeholder engagement.
- Demonstrated track record of delivering technology projects on time, within budget, and to agreed specifications.
- Experience managing multiple complex projects across the full product or solution delivery lifecycle.
- Extensive experience working within international matrix organisations and cross-functional delivery teams.
- Strong understanding of project governance, risk management, change management, and delivery frameworks.
- Experience working with solution vendors, development partners, and third-party suppliers.
- Knowledge of project and programme management tools such as PPM, Microsoft Project, Jira, and Confluence.
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience within a technology, digital, or IT services delivery environment.
- Good understanding of IT architecture, infrastructure, and application ecosystems.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, decision-making, and escalation management skills.
- Highly organised with a methodical approach to planning and delivery.
- Demonstrated leadership, collaboration, and relationship-building capabilities.
- Degree educated, preferably in Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or Management.
- Professional certification in Prince2, PMP, Agile, SAFe, or an equivalent project management framework.
- Knowledge of budget planning, cost control, and financial governance processes.
Not a perfect fit?
Concerned you may not meet every requirement? Vodafone is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. If you are excited about this role but your experience does not align exactly with every aspect of the job description, you are encouraged to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or another opportunity, and the recruitment team will support you in exploring where your skills fit best.
What's in it for you
- Hybrid way of working: 2 days from office per week (8 per month)
- Medical and dental services
- Life and hospitalization insurance
- Dedicated employee phone subscription
- Take control of your benefits and choose any of the following options: meal tickets / private pension / vacation vouchers / cultural vouchers - within the budget.
- 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
- We let you write your own story by planning vacations: go for a trip, experience new things, have fun, and enjoy your 23 days off.
- Special Paternal Program - 4 months of paid paternity leave
What skills you will learn
- Advanced programme and project governance practices within a global enterprise environment.
- Financial planning, forecasting, and budget control for large-scale technology initiatives.
- Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery management approaches at enterprise scale.
- Vendor and partner management across complex delivery ecosystems.
- Enterprise stakeholder management, executive reporting, and strategic communication.
- Risk, issue, dependency, and compliance management across multinational programmes.
- Technology solution delivery across application, infrastructure, cloud, testing, and operational domains.
VOIS Equal Opportunity Employer Commitment
Vodafone recognises and celebrates the value of diversity in building a workforce that reflects the customers and communities it serves. No form of discrimination is tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to, discrimination based on race, colour, age, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, ethnicity, disability, religion or belief, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, citizenship, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, neurodiversity, social origin, cultural background, marital or civil partnership status, or socio-economic background.
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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 truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.
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