VodafoneThree - Strategic Financial Governance Lead; TowerCo & JV - MBNL

Vodafone Three – Strategic Financial Governance Lead (Tower Co & JV – MBNL)

Location: Newbury + Hybrid working

Working Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week – Mon – Fri

Hybrid working: We believe that through collaboration and connection with our colleagues we can achieve great things. Our hybrid working approach allows our people to work both in the office and at home, providing the flexibility and resources you need to succeed in your role. We don't require you to be in on specific days; instead, we ask people to come into the office 2-3 days each week.

You should work with your line manager to understand what their expectations are for you, your specific role and your team.

We’re creating something special. We are joining forces to create the biggest mobile network provider in the UK. Through our collective strengths and talents, we will transform customers’ experience and create a best‑in‑class network for coverage, connectivity, and reliability, delivering greater value and more choice for the nation than ever before.

There are very few moments in our careers where we can feel the ground shifting beneath us, where we can sense that something bigger than we’ve known before is taking shape. We’re not just building a company. We’re going to build a culture, a legacy and a future to be proud of. This will require remarkable leadership and together we can set the standard in the industry and beyond for both customer and employee experience.

This role governs Vodafone Three’s commercial relationships with the MBNL JV with BTEE, overseeing £0.4bn annual spend. It ensures strategic alignment, value creation, and effective governance across contractual, financial, and performance dimensions, leading on strategic and commercial discussions with Vodafone Three, MBNL and BT senior representatives.

• Accountable for the commercial governance of contractual, financial, performance and relationship aspects of our JV with BTEE with oversight of +£0.4bn of annual spend.
• Represent Vodafone Three’s commercial position at contractual governance meetings influencing senior leaders at MBNL and BT and prepare the Vodafone Three leadership team ahead of Board / Excom including the evaluation of performance against MBNL’s Annual Operating Plan and the production of financial collateral to support regular board presentations, senior stakeholder meetings and strategic decision making.
• Accountable for developing a long‑term commercial strategy in collaboration with the Business Owners for our JV that secures stakeholder outcomes, drives best value, and delivers incremental benefits to the joint business plan.
• Encourage a collaborative approach to identifying and addressing contract‑related challenges, fostering an environment where business owners take ownership of finding solutions and the related budget impacts.
• Coordination and input into the MBNL annual budget process and Annual Operating Plan and commercial lead on JV 10yr Business plan, MBNL driven procurement and all reserved matter approvals.
• Hold business owners accountable for managing budgets effectively, identifying potential overruns or savings, and communicating financial impacts clearly whilst building strong and sustainable relationships with business owners, and other stakeholders by prioritising their needs, delivering on promises, and exceeding expectations.
• Lead strategic evaluation of contractual scope changes working with business owners and pulling in procurement, legal and finance expertise to complete the reviews to support board recommendations and drive incremental value to the Vodafone Three Joint Business Plan.
• Foster open and honest communication, building trust and transparency with stakeholders by actively listening to feedback, sharing information clearly, and addressing concerns promptly.
• Working with the Senior Strategic Financial Governance Manager, maintain long‑term financial plans in line with latest strategic decisions.
• Interface with T&O Commercial Finance team and the business function to ensure alignment on budgets and long‑term plans, and to understand key deviations to plan.

• Understanding of Tower Co…