About The Role

Our purpose at Vodafone is to connect for a better future. As a Global Communications Technology company, we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We are forever challenging, pushing boundaries and discovering innovative ways to connect our customers with their digital societies. We connect people, businesses, and communities across the globe to create the future. We earn customer loyalty, experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

Vodafone is embarking on a global transformation of data & analytics leveraging innovative capabilities of google cloud and are looking for an experienced data transformation led to play a key role in enabling this large-scale delivery.

In a fast-paced world, companies needs to have a flexible, scalable and secure cloud estate to enable business agility and to unlock the full potential of new cloud technologies. Vodafone offer a choice of public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) that are simple to connect, consume and operate. The public cloud resell service from Vodafone offers a large catalogue of on-demand cloud computing platforms and is designed to connect your people, places and things to the network in a quick and efficient way and create a highly reliable and secure hybrid multi-cloud environment for enterprise. In addition Vodafone are building a suite of services to help mid-market companies (10-250 employees) to evaluate, design and configure cloud solutions, as well as Integrate them Into existing environments.

You will work as a part of the Cloud & Edge product development team alongside an Agile delivery team. Reporting to the Senior Manager Cloud & Edge Products and Enablers Engineering, you will build a strong and collaborative relationship across the Cloud & Edge team and associated development teams who focus on your products. You will interface with a range of internal and external stakeholders as you develop product requirements for development, maintain technical product content and manage the technology lifecycle.  This includes Cloud, Edge & MPN Product team, wider PPE team,  Technology and delivery teams, legal, regulatory, tax, finance, commercial, pre-sales, provisioning, service management, GTM as well as external stakeholders from customers to vendors.

As a Product Owner you will work within the VBPS product development team to ensure that the new products deliver against Vodafone Business strategy and priority roadmap outcomes.

• Product Development;  You will be accountable for developing features and stories that facilitate product development. This will require you to;
  • Collaborate with Product Manager to elicit requirements and define features
  • Work with agile team to decompose capabilities/features into user stories with acceptance stories to seed the product backlog
  • Assist Product Manager with the business case
  • Manage and prioritize the product backlog, participate in scrums and meta-scrums and validate delivered solution designs.
• Product Delivery; You will be accountable for the delivery of features and stories that facilitate product development. This will require you to;
  • Engage with stakeholders at PI and SI Planning to understand requirements.
  • Understand, assess and critique the architecture proposed by the architecture team and ensure that the scrum team delivery is aligned to the overall solution architecture
  • Collaborate with the agile team to convey goals, answer questions, and accept completed stories
  • Demonstrate completed user stories and increments to business stakeholders
  • Decide when to deploy new functionality to production
  • Own the vision and roadmap of the product, and be a key player in release planning with the team
  • Work with Scrum Master to monitor progress through sprints and ensure any blockers, issues and dependencies are escalated

As a Product Owner trainee, you´ll have the opportunity to: 

• Collaborate with other Agile stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
• Be an advocate for our customer stakeholders and the ultimate beneficiaries of our solution
• Represent the voice of the customer by developing deep expertise and empathy for the customers that use our products

Ideally you have the following skills:

• Mid level experience in Enterprise as a product owner or related role working with similar products.
• Ideally experience with Vodafone group products and managing product platforms on which different product propositions offered.
• A strong collaborator and team player with experience in motivating teams, with proven ability to work in a matrix environment
• Proactive, results oriented, not afraid to challenge the status quo
• Effective communication, self-management and influencing skills to different levels of seniority
• Agile certification (SAFE Agilist or PO/PM)
• Demonstrable product management skills in a similar environment.
• Relevant higher education in a related field
• Experience with IT Managed Services desired, preferably with ITIL, eTOM or TOGAF
• International experience desirable (working internationally and/or working with global solutions)
• Experience with Office and Collaboration applications (Teams etc) and specialist product development and planning tools such as Jira, & Confluence.