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Strategic Profitability Lead

Aggregate function:  Shared Services
Business Area:  Business Operations_VSOL
Posting Country:  United Kingdom
Date Posted:  5 Jun 2026
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.

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

We are seeking a Strategic Profitability Lead to shape and drive the profitability agenda across VOIS. This role operates at enterprise level, translating strategic priorities into focused actions that improve business performance and deliver sustainable value. Working closely with senior leaders, Finance, HR and functional teams, the individual will enable better commercial decisions, ensure robust governance of profitability initiatives, and secure measurable outcomes aligned to the VOIS business plan.

What you’ll do

  • Define and lead the VOIS profitability agenda, aligning priorities to the business plan and enterprise performance goals.
  • Challenge strategic trade-offs across growth, investment, productivity and service performance to enable informed, value-based decisions.
  • Set and govern profitability assumptions, targets and performance parameters across planning and tracking cycles.
  • Ensure business cases and strategic initiatives deliver measurable outcomes, with clear accountability for value creation.
  • Lead the VOIS benchmarking approach, using internal and external comparisons to inform targets, strategic choices and improvement priorities.
  • Translate market, competitor and economic insights into practical implications for VOIS profitability and long-term performance.
  • Establish and lead the performance cadence for profitability initiatives, providing senior leadership with clear visibility of progress, risks and decision points.
  • Deliver decision-quality insight, executive narratives, dashboards and data products, including predictive insight to support strategic prioritisation.
  • Partner with Finance, HR and functional teams to ensure profitability measures, baselines and assumptions are robust, consistent and monitored.
  • Proactively identify and mitigate material profitability risks, intervening early to maintain delivery momentum.
  • Drive continuous improvement through cost-to-serve assessments, AI-enabled insight generation and enhanced dashboarding.
  • Translate transformation and investment initiatives into measurable benefits, tracking and validating value realisation against agreed business cases.

Who you are

  • An enterprise-level leader with experience delivering outcomes across a complex, global matrix environment.
  • Commercially and financially astute, with strong strategic judgement and the confidence to challenge assumptions.
  • Skilled in executive influencing, stakeholder alignment and facilitating decision-making at senior leadership level.
  • Comfortable translating ambiguity and complex data into clear priorities, actions and decisions.
  • Proven in driving measurable business performance, value realisation and transformation outcomes.
  • Professionally qualified in finance, with a degree in Finance or a related discipline.

What's in it for you

  • The opportunity to shape profitability strategy at scale within a global organisation.
  • High visibility and exposure to senior leadership across VOIS and Vodafone Group.
  • The ability to influence strategic investment, transformation and performance outcomes.
  • A role that combines strategic thinking, data-driven insight and tangible value creation.

What skills you will learn

  • Advanced enterprise profitability and value realisation management.
  • Strategic benchmarking and market insight application at scale.
  • Executive-level storytelling using data, dashboards and predictive insight.
  • Leveraging AI and digital tools to enhance commercial decision-making

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.

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. 

Join Us

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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