Mng. Product Manager

Vodafone Business is a leading technology communications company that serves over 6 million business customers across SME to multi‑national segments and a wide range of industries. By connecting people, places and things, Vodafone Business helps organisations succeed in a digital world, keeping society connected. With our expertise in connectivity, our leading IoT platform and our global scale, we help businesses to deliver the results that they need to progress and thrive.

Our broad product portfolio supports customers’ digital transformation, and industry analysts have recognised our market leadership for years, including in Software Defined Networking.

The Senior Product Manager will lead and provide end‑to‑end global lifecycle management for one or more of our Software Defined Networking technology product lines sold globally by Vodafone Business. These products include SD‑WAN, SASE, LAN, Multi‑Cloud Connectivity, and are in high demand with a backdrop of accelerating cloud and digital adoption, hybrid working and business needs for improved security, agility and efficiency.

Malaga / Madrid / London Paddington

• Act as the CEO for your product line(s) on a global basis.
• Build, scale and lead consistent multi‑market products and manage the end‑to‑end product lifecycle.
• People management for the right candidate, potentially including more junior global product manager and/or product specialist colleagues.
• Strong collaboration with local market product managers and cross‑functional teams to ensure that your products remain relevant and deliver against our growth, customer and simplification objectives.

• Drive strategy for the product line (~3‑year horizon) to meet global business and commercial priorities.
• Full ownership and accountability for the product commercials, business case and P&L.
• Capture and translate global customer/local market needs into clear product line capabilities and features or optimise existing products.
• Focus on total product design to ensure all end‑to‑end requirements are captured, including quality, safety, regulatory and sustainability.
• Create and maintain global product roadmaps, ensuring alignment with local product managers.
• Ensure local market requirements are captured and integration, launch and go‑to‑market resources and budgets are planned and ring‑fenced.
• Interface with senior leadership and decision boards where necessary to ensure visibility and alignment of global product requirements and roadmaps.
• Oversee the agile product development phase to ensure necessary governance, funding and key deliverables are achieved on time, within budget and to quality, working with the Senior Technology Product Lead.
• Act as chief publicist for your products to ensure all local market readiness and launch requirements are consistent, scalable and aligned through the local product managers and relevant teams (including marketing, commercial, sales, etc.).
• Identify/partner with product OEMs to determine how they will support the creation of new products.
• Manage all in‑life and end‑of‑life requirements to optimise global product performance, capability and commercials, initiating and resolving actions where necessary.

We are looking for a senior, result‑driven product leader who can operate on a global, multi‑market basis and work effectively with senior internal and external stakeholders across technology, product management, go‑to‑market, commercial and finance functions.

• Strong background in Enterprise Networking with experience in Network as a Service, Cloud Connectivity and Software Defined WAN/SASE products (preferred).
• History of thought leadership and driving transformational improvement.
• Ability to lead a product line on a global, centralised basis across multiple markets.
• Experience developing, securing alignment and executing product line plans.
• Strong influencing and conflict‑management skills, especially with conflicting local market requirements.
• Credibility at customer C‑level and senior leadership level; capacity to act as the expert for the portfolio.
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