Presales Programme Manager

Location: Newbury / Blended home working
Hours: 37.5 Monday – Friday

Be part of the Business Technology Solutions for Vodafone UK, the team that design and develop our converged communications solutions, drive efficiency through automation and AI, whilst implement the solutions directly with our customers. We help thousands of businesses across the country with our connectivity solutions.

What will you be doing?

You will be responsible for all pre-sales project or programme elements of any technology enabled complex projects and programme. Projects will vary in size and degree of complexity and value, across any sector.
This will require the definition of all aspects of an enterprise delivery or implementation opportunity across all Vodafone’s UK “Fixed” and “Digital” Enterprise products and custom developed solutions, complex integrations and migrations.
You will be responsible for representing Vodafone Business Solutions within a bid team, preparing and assuring delivery models / approaches, costing and time parameters, writing bid responses and pulling together proposals and ensure safe handover of all pre-sales into the delivery organisation.

Who are we looking for?

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  Pre-sales experience; having worked with bid teams on multiple RFP / RFI’s
• An individual with experience of project and programme delivery within a client facing environment, preferably within a Telecoms or System Integration environment
• Experience of large-scale Technology delivery projects, including large custom builds, ideally including WAN, LAN, UC, Digital and Cloud technologies
• Proven experience of managing projects up to circa 10,000 man-days and £2m to £8m direct delivery budget responsibility
• Proven ability to shape propositions and projects that deliver effective business outcomes for clients whilst managing internal commercial and delivery risk
• Excellent people management and leadership experience, with a proven ability to motivate and lead multi-disciplined teams
• Project Management qualification / certification in PRINCE desirable

What’s in it for you?

An excellent remuneration and bonus package with 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive and flexible benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family. From our market-leading parental leave policies through to employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes we are committed to supporting you throughout your career with Vodafone.

Together we can

Not a perfect fit?

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.