Career Opportunities at Vodacom

Role Purpose
Responsible for delivering of sound legal advice and support on strategic legal matters for the TowerCo, ensuring sound support on commercial matters, negotiations and drafting of sound agreements.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Day-to-day responsibility for providing accurate, effective and timely legal advice, analysis and support at an expert level on complex commercial and contractual matters of significant strategic and/or financial value to Vodacom relating to the Towerco.
• Keep business stakeholders updated and briefed on key projects and risk management
• Review, play a lead role in negotiating and drafting related legal agreements.
• Attend to all related contract legal issues.
• Ensure at all legal matters are reported and managed in accordance with company governance requirements and processes, delegation of authority, and Group Code of Conduct
• Actively participate in the broader Vodafone and Vodacom legal community to bring benefit from experience, expertise and synergies to Vodacom
• Keep ME Legal Affairs and CO Legal and Regulatory informed /involved on major or complex issues.

The Ideal Candidate For This Role Will Have
Must have technical/professional qualifications and experience:

• LLB Degree and admitted attorney with a minimum of 8 – 10 years post qualification experience.
• Technical knowledge in financial services
• Fluency in English is mandatory.
• Experience in engaging with regulatory authorities.
• Extensive commercial law, drafting and negotiation experience, with ability to provide innovative legal solutions in a fast moving industry.

Core Competencies, Knowledge And Experience

• Experienced commercial law attorney with some knowledge of the telecoms industry or related experience.
• Understanding of the financial services sector (any of, banking, insurance, credit arrangements, payments systems)
• Understanding of legal arrangements in franchising
• Capable of negotiating complex transactions and providing legal advice of these transactions to senior business stakeholders.
• Highly developed drafting skills covering a wide range of contracts.
• Highly developed decision making and interpersonal skills.
• Team player with strong negotiating/persuasive skills
• Analytical skills and attention to detail
• Collaboration and interpersonal skills
• Customer focus. Ability to understand trade-offs/balance between business risk and legal considerations
• External perspective, i.e. anticipate market changes and recommend viable solutions
• Strategic thinking
• Commercial acumen
• Proactive stakeholder engagement
• Research skills
   

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Role Purpose

• Embedding Inclusive practice and leadership into the employee life cycle of Vodacom so that we are truly an organisation within which everyone can thrive.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Key accountabilities and decision ownership
• Lead the development of embedding inclusion into all aspects of the employee life in line with Global Diversity & Inclusion Strategy
• Collaborate closely with the key stakeholders to provide Diversity and Inclusion thought leadership and support; ensuring Vodafone is place where everyone can be themselves and belong.
• Conduct data analysis in partnership with the wider team, Data Analytics team and the inclusion leads, to identify trends and provide recommendations to address gaps
• Collaborate across the HR recruitment communities to ensure that we attract, develop and retain global talent, reflective of the diversity of the customers and communities that we serve.
• Support Regional Head of Inclusion & Culture as appropriate
• Work closely with the Global D&I team and International Network Leads to ensure Vodacom Group is delivering global initiatives to support the D&I agenda i.e. Pride, Women’s Network
• Support senior stakeholders across the business in their knowledge and awareness D&I and provide support and expertise with Communications team to ensure D&I is widely publicised in the correct manner.
• Create and Implement the Group D&I Dashboard

Must Have Technical / Professional Qualifications
The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Relevant Degree or Diploma.
• Honours Degree preferable.

Core Competencies, Knowledge And Experience

• Strong experience in D&I and design and delivery of impactful programmes and interventions at both systemic and behavioural level
• Initiatives and measuring impact and change.
• Experience of equality, diversity and inclusion legislation and policies
• Experience of working impact fully across different teams, functions and geographies to deliver D&I programmes

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Role Purpose

• To ensure that user requirements for the business are documented, developed and delivered on, with specific focus on CRM & Provisioning.
• Ensure the optimal and efficient performance of the Information Services Desk portfolio through the use of digital support tools, automation, governance and frameworks deployed within the company.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• To perform business & systems analysis and design activities by assessing requirements in terms of feasibility, impact and cost, thereby assisting to create and compile accurate user requirement documents.
• To provide technical input into system definition and design activities and facilitate the delivery of value-added solutions.
• To perform business impact analysis & assessment of Product & Services and the impact on the Information Services Desk and supporting the Business.
• To research / investigate current industry trends and standards in terms of technologies deployed / planned to be deployed and how that can enhance / optimise systems and realize efficiencies on the team.
• To act as a technical liaison between business and the technical teams and to ensure the required support from all areas to ensure delivery of quality solutions.
• To ensure that projects are delivered according to requirements, specified designs and that the technical and business teams are aligned around the same objectives and deliverables.
• To ensure that solutions are delivered through the agreed delivery processes and to support the technical teams with the delivery of solutions e.g. facilitation of configuration, testing, rollout coordination
• To research, define and maintain industry best practices within the Service Delivery Management Division with respect to the above and other delivery processes
• To maintain, re-evaluate, optimise or automate existing business & system processes.
• To create reports and feedback to executive and line management
• To perform quality assurance across business analysis documentation, vendor documentation, proposals, technical designs, test documentation and operational handover documentation
• To create the necessary documentation & training materials as required, and conduct training as needed.
• Perform reviews on technology processes,systems and infrastructure with the aim of proactively enhancing the governance and alignment to the associated policies & guiding management on recommendations for closure of findings.

The Ideal Candidate For This Role Will Have
Must have technical / professional qualifications:

• 3 Year Degree / equivalent Diploma /equivalent Certificate in Information Technology / Business / Programme Management (essential), and
• 3- 5 Years business analysis/systems analysis experience preferably in a highly complex environment (essential)

2-3 Years Telecommunication Knowledge & Experience Is Essential

• ITIL Service Management Foundation is essential
• An understanding of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE) would be beneficial

Job Knowledge

• Complex business analysis cases
• Group facilitation sessions
• CRM & Provisioning Systems technical environment
• Change control procedures
• Project management fundamentals
• Technology / Industry trends
• Business analysis methods
• Application functionality

Skills

• Problem-solving skills are essential

Analytical Skills Are Essential

• Decision-making skills are essential
• Computer Applications (MS Office) is essential

Presentation Skills Are Essential

• Interpersonal skills are essential

Facilitation Skills Are Essential
Competencies - Extreme Importance :

• Analysing
• Applying Expertise and Technology
• Relating and Networking
• Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
• Deciding and Initiating Action
• Writing and Reporting
• Persuading and Influencing
• Adapting and Responding to Change – original High Importance
• Coping with Pressures and Setbacks – original High Importance

Competencies - High Importance

• Achieving Personal Work Goals and Objectives
• Working with People
• Learning and Researching
• Planning and Organising
• Presenting and Communicating Information
• Adhering to Principles and Values

Competencies - Moderate Importance

• Creating and Innovating
• Formulating Strategies and Concepts
• Following Instructions and Procedures

Competencies - Baseline Importance

• Leading and Supervising
• Entrepreneurial and Commercial Thinking

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Role purpose:

• To support the Consumer Business Unit (CBU) teams with respect to Prepaid, Postpaid and Fixed products.
• To provide ad-hoc and ongoing analysis to support pricing reviews and frameworks in-line with overall business strategy.
• To provide high-level financial models and collaborate with objective business functions to support product deployment, removal or adjustments.
• To ensure all aspects of incumbent pricing frameworks or amendments thereto are being applied in other areas of the commercial business unit.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Specialist pricing and operations support to CBU teams  
• Derive and communicate insights obtained from reporting and analytics
• Support the various contract CBU teams with pricing related activities
• Perform high level financial modelling
• Review performance trends and identify opportunities on an on-going basis 
• Determine and review price elasticity for products and services 
• Assist with pricing frameworks and strategies based on supply & demand, costing, regulatory and competition factors 
• Provide valuable pricing insights and analysis
• Provide pricing input to detailed financial models and budget/forecasting processes

Teamwork   

• Create positive working relations between the CBU Product, Segment, CBU Finance, CVM teams

Communication 

• Written material must be of the highest quality with clear insights and actions for executive management
• Communicate and conduct presentations effectively 
• Prepare and present performance to product and marketing teams

Innovation and change 

• Assist with the design new and innovative ways of working to strive for continual improvement
• Assist with developing new strategies that will improve contract performance

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

Must have technical/professional qualifications: 

• Matric Essential and
• Relevant BSc. or BCom. Mathematics, Commerce, Statistics, Econometrics or relevant degree essential and
• A minimum 3 years relevant experience essential in:
• Pricing and/or financial modelling and/or data analytics – essential
• Commercial and/or Finance and/or Analytics – essential and
• Understanding of pricing strategies and principles 
• Mobile communication experience an advantage
• programming (Python; VB; R; Matlab; etc)

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Proficient SQL user -  ESSENTIAL
• Analytical thinking and experience  
• Proficient user of MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint  
• Experience in other coding languages (Python, R, VB) will be an advantage
• Reporting and analytical experience essential
• Understanding of relevant Pricing  practices advantageous
• Telecoms experience will be an advantage

Job Knowledge:

• Previous pricing experience will be beneficial
• Development an in depth understanding of contract revenues and direct costs
• Understand elasticity and market trends within the prepaid segment
• Advanced skills in Excel, Word and PowerPoint 
• Advanced SQL skills is ESSENTIAL

Job-Related Skills:

• Strong analytical capabilities
• Financial modelling skills 
• Excellent presentation and communication skills  
• Dynamic team player 
• Deep understanding of competitive environment and pricing principles