Grid Power Manager at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role purpose/Business Unit:

• End to end ownership of AC grid power metering and billing on a national basis. Provide support to all internal stakeholders on all technical and data aspects of power metering and billing related matters, with a focus on ensuring accurate billing. This includes coordination of metering solution design requirements that will meet the AC billing and environmental sustainability requirements and operational and maintenance requirements to ensure effective, efficient and accurate billing of all the power infrastructure. Coordinate with all external stakeholders on all technical, financial and data aspects of power metering and billing related matters, with a focus on ensuring accurate billing.

Your responsibilities will include:

Metering

• Realise metering strategies for different customers based on the design support from the power solution architects. 
• Support the operations and maintenance partners to ensure metering capabilities on site are never compromised and technically operational all the time.
• Provide technical, commercial and operational support on all metering and billing related matters.
• Lead technical metering solutions to ensure sound financial management in all billing and metering activities and support MAST management team with all related requirements.
• Responsible for the development, coordination and implementation of weekly and daily work plans, schedules and reporting on a real-time basis for metering operations.

Thought Leader 

• Focus on supporting the Technical Operations team as well as MAST leadership team on designing unique and innovative metering and billing solutions and processes.
• Solve complex metering problems involving data completeness and accuracy and meter communications.
• Take the lead in identifying, implementing and improving fit-for-purpose billing solutions.

Supplier /Contract Management

• Develop structures to monitor, evaluate and manage supplier, contractors, and 3rd party’s performance against their contracted scope of work, and benchmark best practice.
• Support related internal stakeholders, including the commercial, finance and property teams within MAST.

Financial Management & Reporting

• Support related internal stakeholders, including commercial, finance and property teams to ensure that accurate financial management can be applied both internally and externally, with a site-specific profit and loss view.
• Coordination of related external stakeholders, including Eskom, Landlords and Councils to ensure that accurate financial management can be applied both internally and externally, with a site-specific profit and loss view.
• Develop dashboards to enable management visibility on power usage and recovery transactions, ensuring the full recovery of actual costs incurred and alignment to the agreed profit and loss.
• Design proactive reporting to identify technical solutions to drive better financial management.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

Must have technical / professional qualifications: 

• A 3-year related qualification, such as a diploma or bachelor's degree. An electrical and financial qualification would be advantageous.
• Minimum of 8 years of power metering and implementation of metering and billing solutions. Hands-on working experience on the metering and billing of multi-tenant systems.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Understanding of existing metering technologies, metering data and data analysis know-how.
• Conversion of metering data to compliant billing data.
• Technical problem-solving skills, supporting management to be able to navigate through difficult negotiations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong persuasion skills.
• Excellent relationship building, teamwork, and collaboration skills that enables the provision of effective support and guidance across programmes.
• Proven track record on key outputs and related disciplines

Compliance Management:

• Support the MAST preparation for ISO compliance and certification.
• Ensure all billing and metering solutions are implemented, and managed appropriately, measured by audit compliance.

We make an impact by offering:

• Enticing incentive programs and competitive benefit packages
• Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
• Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fiber connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies