Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- The purpose of the Principal Specialist: Loyalty & Rewards is to Contribute towards the sustainability of the VodaBucks Rewards Programme through sourcing of new partnerships, managing existing strategic partnerships by optimizing commercial terms and identifying market opportunities.
- Custodianship of benefits for new strategic initiatives in exploiting business opportunities to optimise commercial profitability.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Strategically lead both short and long term commercial opportunities.
- Strategically contribute to building the vision and developing successful practices, supporting management of partners by providing a factual view of partner management specific challenges and long term sustainable plans.
- Source new partners in line with VodaBucks Rewards Programme and Vodacom’s strategic focus areas.
- Negotiate sustainable commercial terms with new partners.
- Review and re-negotiate optimum commercial terms on existing contracts
- Generation of commercially positive ideas that will impact customers and change customer buying behaviour, personalized offers per customer segment/cohort to drive engagement & increase revenue, active days and reduce churn
- Design, brief, maintain, and report on below the line campaign activities to promote upgrades, up-sell & cross-sell and reduce churn using Vodacom Brand CI & tonality guidelines
- Manage the commercial capability roadmap and track delivery of new features and products within the Loyalty team
- Monthly product performance and impact measurement of the activities
- Collaborate with the applied machine learning team to incorporate machine learning into base marketing products and marketing campaigns Working collaboratively with various Business Units within VSA, VB and Group
- Proactively develop relationships with key internal & external stakeholder’s to ensure co-operation with regards to financial optimization
- Understand and manage risks and risk incidents relevant to the role in collaboration with Risk and Legal
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- 3 year Degree or National Diploma in Marketing or related
- 8 to 10 year’s relevant experience with proven track record in negotiation
- Experience in dealing with multiple external partners, legal leverage and commercialisation is essential
- Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
- Relating and networking
- Adapting and responding to change
- Understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends
- High level of EQ and mindfulness
Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:
- Market awareness (locally & internationally)
- Innovator and disruptor at heart
- Relationship building
- Excellent Negotiation skills
- Persuasiveness and influential
- Integrity
- Strong financial skills
- Adapting and responding to change
- Analytical skills
- Problem solving skills
- Decisiveness and initiating action
- Ability to work independently with strong problem solving attributes
- Strong communicational skills, written and oral presentations and the ability to communicate propositions in an efficient manner.
- Ability to work in complex environments, with the ability to influence and persuade stakeholders to achieve the desired outcomes.
- Ability to communicate effectively, think strategically and implement tactically with proven business skills
- Experience in working in agile based organisations
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 fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies
Closing date for Applications: 19 January 2026.
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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- Execute lease and electricity payments, ensuring accurate accounting and vendor onboarding. Focus on financial analysis, cost optimization, budgeting, and forecasting.
- Perform data analysis and reporting using tools like SQL, Excel, and PowerBI. Oversee vendor contracts and drive process improvements through digital transformation.
Your responsibilities will include:
Lease and Electricity Management
- Facilitate payment of rental and electricity in conjunction with Finops Shared Services
- Prepare and manage accrual accounting of BTS leases as well as electricity provisions
- Onboard new vendors/landlord on Supplier Onboarding Portal based on specific documentation requirements
- Create, modify and/or terminate vendor/landlord and lease related details on relevant systems, platforms and tools
- Prepare checklist related to leases in accordance with best practice, IFRS16 and Vodacom specific requirements
- Manage the BTS electricity provisions and payment for leased TowerCo sites, Rooftop sites, DAS sites etc.
Financial Analysis and Cost Optimisation
- Implement cost measures in the property portfolio to avoid back-billing claims, budget overspend from various landlords (i.e. TowerCos, MNOs, Private)
- Prepare financial cost models to guide and drive cost optimisation initiatives across the entire portfolio
- Perform various financial analysis (i.e. Cash Flow Forecasting and Analysis) of leases, rental and electricity portfolios
Budgeting, Cashflow and Forecasting
- Prepare cash flow and forecast report pertaining to leases and electricity
- Prepare Opex budget and forecasting pertaining to leases and electricity as part of LRP in conjunction with FBP and FinOps
Data Analysis, Database Management and Reporting
- Perform and data analysis and interactive dashboard across the entire property portfolio using different tools SQL, Excel, PowerBI to give insights to Senior Management
- Build one-stop shop database of sites, leases, electricity account with touchpoint from various technical systems
- Develop Site lease rental benchmark across various portfolios and regions and provide quantitative analysis to guide commercial negotiations
- Prepare and produce high quality reports tailored for Executive and Management
Vendor Contract Management and Programme Management
- Govern, lead and guide the Lease Management vendors through structured governance review sessions, service delivery performance metrics and periodic management reporting
- Perform periodic performance reviews of the appointed vendors through various measures i.e. non-performance penalties
- Process payment for the vendors based on service rendered and in line with SCM procedures
- Develop a lease renewal programme to address expired leases, future expiries to avoid potential accrual and budget overspend
- Formulate best case and timebound actionable plan to address key opportunities (i.e. accrual reduction, back-billing avoidance, expired leases)
Process Improvement and Digital Transformation
- Transform the digital management of leases, rentals and electricity to reduce the manual tasks through automation
- Identify inefficiencies and gaps in the existing Lease and Electricity Management process and develop a robust process improvement plan
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- Degree/Diploma in Accounting / Finance/Real Estate
- 5 – 8 years relevant experience
- 5 years of working experience in a Financial and Contract administration environment (essential).
- Legal-related tertiary qualification (advantageous)
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
- Regulations
- Finance
- Accounting
- Policies & Procedures
- Economic Principles
- Persuading and Influencing
- Following Instructions and Procedures
- Planning and Organising
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Achieving Personal Work Goals and Objectives
- Adhering to Principles and Values
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 fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies
Closing date for Applications: 21 January 2026.
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