Principal Solution Consultant- Healthcare

Location: Home-based, UK
Salary: Excellent basic salary plus Vodafone benefits
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week – Mon to Fri

*Home-based

At Vodafone UK our homebased working means you’ll work from home almost all the time and come together on certain occasions during the year to be creative, collaborative, and simply connect. Our “Office in a Box” home working kit will provide you with everything you need, no matter where you are.

Who We Are

We’re a global technology communications company that empowers people and businesses to stay connected and thrive in a digital world. With a focus on innovation, sustainability and earning customer loyalty, we leverage cutting-edge technology to offer products and services that enhance communication and improve lives. 

At Vodafone UK, diversity isn’t just a buzzword, it is core to who we are as a company.  We’re proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work and are committed to driving inclusion for all; creating a workplace that is fully representative of the communities and customers we serve.

Be part of Vodafone Business UK, a team that are revolutionising how customers use technology and connectivity. With our extensive range of products and services, we help all kinds of organisations – from small, local businesses to multi-national corporations – unlocking the potential of new technologies, including 5G, AI and the Internet of Things (IoT). 

What you’ll do

Healthcare systems across the UK are under pressure from ageing populations and scarce resources, and digitalisation presents an opportunity for structural change. Spurred on by the Covid pandemic, national governments and the EU are planning to spend tens of billions of Pounds on digital health initiatives in the next five years. This presents Vodafone Business with the opportunity to generate substantial incremental revenue growth and contribute to Vodafone’s Digital Society ambitions by improving citizens’ access to, and outcomes from, healthcare. 

Vodafone in Health has been created as a unique sector vertical, across the public and private healthcare sectors, recongnising the potential to accelerate Vodafone’s propositions into health, building on the Vodafone Centre for Health with Deloitte ambitions to combine Vodafone’s leading portfolio of connectivity services with Deloitte’s global healthcare consulting and delivery expertise to deliver solutions to fulfil that ambition. 

The Principal Consultant’s primary role will be to assist Sales teams in creating and realising pipeline opportunities across our Health customer base, both locally and nationally. This is a client-facing role that supports the sales activities of the Vodafone UK Business sales channels covering both the public and private sectors. You will provide support to address the key challenges of the Health sector around Demand Management, Elective Care backlog, Virtual Care, Workforce and Fiscal challenges.

Who you are  

You will have extensive pre-sales/solution design experience in a customer facing role within the Healthcare sector:

• Understands and able to lead Pre-Sales/Solution & Service Design consultants.
• Proven record of designing high level technical sales strategies to support successful business growth.
• Capable of working in a matrix organisation and able to build strong relationship and credibility with Board/ Executives both internally and externally.
• Good leadership skills being able to lead and motivate pre-sales teams, with a proven record of building people and organisational capability.
• Knowledge of the communications market; technical, market and customer drivers.
• The ability to translate customer need to technical solution.
• Degree or equivalent
• Industry recognised technical accreditations

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.

What we offer

We believe that taking care of our employees is the key to their success. That is why we offer an excellent remuneration and bonus package with up to 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family, including employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes. We take pride in our commitment to supporting you at every stage of your career by providing top of the range learning and development tools, market leading parental leave policies and an innovative Reconnect programme for people who have taken a career break.  

Together we can 

Vodafone UK are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators standards.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website (https://careers.vodafone.com/uk/applying-to-vodafone/) for guidance.