Senior Product Manager - Sovereign Services

About this Role

As the Senior Product Manager for Sovereign Services, you will lead the development of Vodafone's sovereign services operating model, ensuring it meets both EU regulatory requirements and the sovereignty requirements of our customers. You will define how our sovereign services are designed, governed, delivered and assured end-to-end – the people, processes, tooling, controls and partner arrangements that make a service genuinely sovereign and demonstrably compliant.

You will treat the sovereign services operating model as a product in its own right: translating EU legislation and frameworks – such as the Cloud, Data and AI Act, GDPR, NIS2, DORA, the EU Data Act and the emerging EU cloud and sovereignty certification schemes – together with market-specific and customer-specific sovereignty requirements, into a clear, implementable operating model. You will define the controls, roles, run-books and assurance mechanisms that deliver operational sovereignty (who can access data and systems, from where, and under whose jurisdiction), data sovereignty (residency, encryption and key management) and technical sovereignty across the sovereign services portfolio.

A particular focus of the role is customer trust and assurance. You will engage directly with customers and their security, legal and procurement teams to understand their sovereignty requirements, translate them into operating-model capabilities, and provide the evidence and certifications that let them adopt with confidence. You will work across Cyber Security, Legal & Regulatory, Operations, local markets, and the Cloud, Security, SaaS, AI and Networks portfolios to embed the operating model consistently across sovereign services.

You will own its roadmap so that it keeps pace with a fast-evolving regulatory landscape including visibility of emerging sovereignty requirements in non-EU markets.