Principal Manager Pricing Intelligence

At Vodafone Group we build connections to all our Global operations, acting as an advisory board to drive consistency and customer excellence across 30 countries and for over 420 million customers. We are constantly uncovering tactics to innovate the way we operate, set our global standards or lead our strategic performance. By joining Vodafone Group, you will be part of evolving our digital world of total communications. Now is the time to get on board.

Vodafone Group Business partners with large multi-national organisations to find better ways of working through our total communications solutions. We enable them do ‘more with less’ by empowering their people to work more flexibly, simply and efficiently to ensure their business is built on firm connectivity foundations. Across our global fixed and mobile networks, cloud-based hosting platforms, Internet of Things solutions, technical expertise and professional services offerings, we can connect global organisations in a rapid changing world to ensure they stay agile and competitive – wherever in the world they do business. What links us all together is that we are all customer obsessed, innovation hungry and ambitious! Are you?

Group Business Commercial Operations

Vodafone Group Business Operations delivers consistent, excellent service to all our 1700 multi-national clients. From designing to delivering extraordinary service that exceeds our customer’s expectations, we lead excellence across all our global markets and customer lifecycle Joining us as a Principal Pricing Intelligence Manager you can be part of our empowering our Group Business Commercial Operations.

The Commercial Intelligence team leads the development and evolution of standard commercial methodologies, and provides insights and analytics to support our regional Commercial Operation steams.  This requires collaborating on projects with other key functional stakeholders across Group Enterprise, as well as the wider Commercial Operations team, acting as a central function to share best practice and lead in commercial development.  The team also acts as a centre of excellence for commercial support on key strategic products including in the Connectivity and Unified Communications product practices, including Vodafone SD-WAN.

• Lead on establishing standard pricing methodologies for Fixed Connectivity propositions, using commercial insight to challenge Product to ensure that standard Commercial Propositions are profitable and meet customer expectation (Internal and External), and that assumptions held within the commercial propositions are logical, sensible, updated and accurate at all times
• Act as a commercial subject matter expert on one or more strategic products, providing coaching and guidance to Commercial Leads and Commercial Managers in the Regional Commercial Operations teams on bids to maximise profitability and win chance.
• Strong analytical decision making skills, including the ability to balance conflicting interests and make decisions based on in complete or unreliable information and can structure and price standard product economics to maximize profits
• Develop strong relationships with internal customers, both in Commercial Operations and Sales, to understand their requirements and help ensure a collaborative working environment across key areas, including OpCo Commercial teams, other functions, PCS, Finance, Product, Supply Chain

• Experience pricing Fixed Connectivity products (e.g. IPVPN), preferably with experience in pricing for Software Defined Networks
• Experience developing compelling commercial propositions
• Demonstrate expert industry knowledge in a fixed line communications environment, including commercial issues affecting a bid
• Computer skills, including a high level of Excel commercial modelling skills, and relevant system knowledge

Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised, developed and rewarded. We believe that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business and we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment which respects, values, celebrates and makes the most of people’s individual differences - we are not only multinational but multicultural too. At Vodafone you will have access to our excellent benefits programme that you would expect from any global company.

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