Agile Portfolio Manager

Aggregate function:  Vodafone Business
Business Area:  Local Vodafone Business Unit
Posting Country:  Egypt
Date Posted:  17 Dec 2024
Full Time / Part Time:  Full Time
Contract Type:  Fixed Term Contract

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.

Role Purpose:

Responsible for the delivery of the VBU calendar and Agile Implementation through the below:
•    Ensures the right governance and alignment to deliver VBU calendar timely
•    Managing all agile practices across all tribes and enables alignment of best practices within the Agile Organization in the VBU in addition to current agile coach accountabilities.
•    Responsible for the agile coaches and scrum masters’ performance and guidance with implementing the right agile methodologies across the VBU.  
•    Ensuring the accurate utilization of Enterprise capex budget and the right alignment with finance and technology teams to deliver the best of the allocated budget

Job Responsibilities:

Key accountabilities and decision ownership: 
In addition to standard Agile Coach role responsibilities
•    Responsible for ensuring successful implementation of the Agile methodology across tribes & unify agile methodologies
•    Responsible for the governance forums with all agile coaches to review the progress and development needs across all tribes 
•    Responsible for agile resources utilization and productivity measures to optimize and utilize performance or capacity ensuring right efficiencies across different tribes 
•    Responsible for managing the agile practices performance of all agile coaches in alignment with tribe lead 
•    Managing and putting the right governance to achieve our commercial calendar and ensures proper alignment and planning is done as well as proposing the synergy for different tickets launch dates according to the DB
•    Responsible for setting and maintaining the right SLAs of different tribes and ensures the delivery of them 
•    Managing the enterprise capex budget and consolidate commercial core metrics and DB submissions

Skills Required:

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
•    Participate as an expert, solving complex problems related to his/her expertise with the tribes
•    Define the professional standards/work methodology in and across the Agile Organization 
•    Work with COE leads and POs to assess the talent need across chapters and suggest reshuffling/ hiring if needed

Must have technical / professional qualifications: 
•    Minimum 10 years of experience 
•    VF Egypt ICAgile Certified Agile Coach 
•    Certified in Agile Methodologies 
•    People management experience 
•    Strong Business Acumen 
•    Commercial experience

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.