Career Opportunities at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role purpose:

• The Scrum Master plays a crucial part in ensuring the success of our Digital Operating Model; helping us to become a leading digital company
• The Scrum Master is a servant leader to the DevOps delivery team, coaching agile methods, and providing support and facilitation to increase velocity and team productivity
• This role is responsible for identifying risks, dependencies, and impediments, leading the team and business in finding a solution, coordinating with other teams and functional partners, and actively escalating when needed to ensure resolution
• This role is responsible for keeping a pulse on needs and insights from stakeholders and other initiatives, regularly communicating status, changes in direction, and relevant metrics to avoid misalignment and roadblocks 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Support the Product Owner in ensuring right-sized story writing, aligning priorities, and planning sprint iterations
• Coach team members on Agile methods and technical practices (e.g., CI/CD, TDD, etc.)
• Track and manage risks and issues of the delivery team
• Track and report on current status of all team members and the delivery
• Facilitating key agile ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives
• Monitor and optimize agile processes and practices
• Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives and team learning
• Coordinate with other delivery teams, stakeholders, and partners to manage risks, interdependencies, and impediments to the team.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or  another related field
• A total of at least five to eight years relevant experience of which at least three years needs to be as a Scrum Master or Product Owner with agile teams
• Experience in designing and delivering complex digital capabilities    
• Experience using agile methodologies in large-scale teams
• Experience in Project Management
• Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, and BDD
• Certified Agile coach, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFeCertified Scrum Master or similar
• Certifications in traditional Project Management practices, e.g., Prince 2, PMP preferred
• JIRA/Confluence, MS Project, or equivalent experience preferred

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Is a role model for best practices in Agile process execution, motivating other team members to do the same 
• Ability to continue to monitor, learn, and implement industry best practices from the agile community 
• Natural "servant" leader, with strong ability to coach and develop others, an inherent entrepreneurial spirit, and focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance 
• Viewed by the wider organization as an effective and consistent collaborator, influencer, and negotiator, able to highlight internal and external dependencies and break down complex blockers
• Excellent stakeholder management and communications skills, with the ability to inspire, influence, and update delivery teams and  senior executives
• Excellent facilitation, organization, and problem-solving skills, helping the team manage conflicts, challenges, escalating only when team processes have failed
• Comfortable with ambiguity and working in fluid, fast-changing environments under pressure
• Strong grounding in traditional project management practices
• Good understanding of the business capability/user journey, wider organizational goals, and desired product business outcomes
• Understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends
• Agile software development environment and methods such as Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, XP. LSD, and FDD
• Agile ceremonies, tools. and artefacts, e.g., retrospectives, demos, increment planning, information radiators
• User story definition and team backlog management
• Backlog item estimation
• Continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools
• DevOps culture, processes. and tools

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Role purpose:

• Provide legal advice and managing legal matters for Vodacom Group and Vodacom South Africa, with a focus on -
• Mergers & acquisitions (including disposals), joint ventures and intra group reorganisations (covering all aspects, including drafting and/or commenting on, negotiating and settling of transaction agreements, supervising due diligences, overseeing merger filings and fulfilment of conditions precedent etc.);
• Debt and capital markets funding;
• Shareholder issues, corporate activity and general corporate and commercial matters;
• Overseeing competition law aspects; and
• Corporate litigation.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Manage and oversee, and provide legal advice and input on, ‘high impact’ corporate transactions (mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, intra group reorganisations etc.) and on any international litigation impacting Vodacom Group or Vodafone Group    
• Involvement at the outset to define legal needs and inputs to any major transactional activity.
• Prepare/ comment on mandates/engagement letters and appoint and brief outsourced due diligence teams.
• Play a key role in deal negotiation and structuring in line with project goals and budget.
• Draft and review, negotiate and settle agreements and documents.
• Manage and control any project-specific outsourced legal work.
• Liaise with business line leaders, legal heads of international operating companies, Vodafone legal team, other stakeholders, etc., as dictated by deal requirements.
• Ensure that all required legal agreements are in place and approved under the delegation of authority process.
• All legal matters are to be reported and managed in accordance with company governance requirements and processes, delegation of authority, and Group Code of Conduct
• Keep business stakeholders updated and briefed on key projects and risk management.

Provide legal advice and counsel on other corporate activity including BEE transactions, shareholder issues and finance and treasury related transactions and general corporate and commercial work    

• Prepare or comment on mandates, N.D.A.’s, engagement letters, etc.
• Play a lead role in negotiating and structuring deals/transactions.
• Drafting and reviewing, negotiating and settling agreements and legal documents.

Litigation 

• Where litigation becomes unavoidable or preferable:
• Act on behalf of the company in litigation proceedings and instruct and manage external attorneys (where necessary).
• Liaise with business line leaders and other stakeholders and report on litigation status.

Competition Law matters    

• Oversee provision of specialist legal advice on competition law matters as they arise.
• Oversee competition law compliance activities.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• B.A./B.Com. & LL.B and admitted as an Attorney / Advocate or equivalent
• 8-10 years’ commercial legal experience preferably within a Legal Firm (In-house).  
• (can include articles) 
• Experience in handling mergers and acquisitions, treasury, financial and stakeholder related transactions essential 
• Competition law highly desirable 

Technical / Professional Expertise

• M&A and commercial drafting experience
• Litigation experience
• Experience in dealing with mergers and acquisitions and financial (including investment/treasury related) transactions
• Experience in applying competition law
• Experience in working on international transactions
• Experience in working in shareholder related (including BEE) transactions.

Competency / Performance Drivers

• Drafting skills
• Negotiating and interpersonal skills
• Analytical thinking skills and attention to detail
• Interpersonal and influencing skills
• Project management skills