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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- Margin assurance is a highly focused area within the Telecommunications sector with the purpose of detecting, correcting and preventing any revenue leakages from reducing cost, increasing revenue and minimising loss through the effective use of controls and various technologies.
- An experienced MA Senior Specialist with strong financial and technical skills, preferably from the Telecoms or Banking industry, will be responsible for implementing the end to end Margin (Revenue) Assurance controls for Vodacom.
Your responsibilities will include:
- To provide independent and comprehensive monthly reports, KPI dashboards and documentation.
- Investigate, analyse, validate, and quantify all revenue/ cost incidents identified.
- Identify gaps/shortcomings in the MA process and develop/recommend strategies to address the gaps/shortcomings
- Ensure that Margin assurance standards, SOX, Internal Audit, MA policies and procedures have been adhered to.
- Leverage of the Vodafone expertise to identify areas of concern, information sharing and adopt best practices.
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- B-degree in Accounting, Business Science, Telecoms, Financial Services
- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in a Margin/Revenue Assurance environment, with a strong background in building assurance analytics through complex queries and reports in a telecoms/financial services environment.
Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:
- Excellent data mining skills
- Excellent data analysis skills
- Assurance background within telecoms or financial services
- 2-5 years experience in using programming languages (i.e. SQL, Python etc..) and other analytical tools
- Excellent problem-solving skills
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: 17 October 2025
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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- As the recognized authority in data and analytics architecture, the Solution Architect provides strategic guidance and technical leadership in the design, development, and implementation of enterprise-wide data and analytical solutions.
- This role is pivotal in translating complex business requirements into scalable, secure, and high-performing data architectures that enable advanced analytics, data-driven decision-making, and digital transformation.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Enterprise Data Strategy Alignment – Ensure all data and analytics architecture designs align with the organisation’s enterprise architecture principles, business strategies, and technology roadmap.
- Solution Design Leadership – Lead end‑to‑end design of scalable, secure, and high‑performance data platforms, including data warehouses, data lakes, streaming pipelines, and analytics platforms.
- Stakeholder Collaboration – Partner with business, IT, and analytics leaders to translate complex business requirements into technical architectures and implementation roadmaps.
- Technology Evaluation & Selection – Assess, recommend, and govern the adoption of data management, integration, and analytics technologies based on business needs, scalability, and total cost of ownership.
- Standards & Best Practices – Define and enforce architectural standards, frameworks, and patterns for data modelling, governance, and security.
- Data Governance Enablement – Support and embed data governance policies for data quality, lineage, stewardship, privacy, and compliance with relevant regulations (e.g., GDPR, POPIA).
- Solution Delivery Oversight – Provide architectural guidance throughout the project lifecycle — from proof‑of‑concept to production — ensuring solutions meet non‑functional requirements (performance, reliability, scalability).
- Risk & Issue Management – Identify technical risks, develop mitigation plans, and proactively address architectural challenges.
- Thought Leadership – Keep abreast of emerging trends in data architecture, analytics, cloud, and AI, and translate these into actionable innovation opportunities.
Decision ownership:
- Architectural Direction – Own decisions on the overall design and architectural approach for enterprise data and analytics solutions.
- Technology Standards – Approve and maintain the organization’s data architecture frameworks, standards, and patterns.
- Platform & Tooling Selection – Make final recommendations on the adoption of core data platforms, tools, and analytics technologies.
- Data Integration & Interoperability – Decide on integration patterns, APIs, and data exchange mechanisms to ensure seamless interoperability across systems.
- Security & Compliance Controls –Implement data security measures and controls to protect sensitive information and ensure compliance.
- Solution Approval – Ensure approval for solution designs before implementation to ensure alignment with enterprise and security architecture principles.
- Scalability & Performance Trade‑offs – Weigh cost, time‑to‑market, and long‑term scalability when making architectural choices.
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- Matric essential
- Degree or Diploma in Information Systems / BSc Computer Science / BSc engineering (or similar tertiary qualifications)
- 5+ years in data warehousing, ETL integration
- 7+ years’ experience with all aspects of IT projects from business analysis, architectures, system analysis and design through development, testing, implementation, and production support (SDLC).
- 2+ years leading an architectural development process and collaborate with application development teams, architects and other members of the software development team.
- AWS/GCP Certifications would be advantageous.
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
- Expert-level proficiency in SQL, including complex query design, performance optimization, data modelling, and integration across cloud platforms and BI tools to support advanced analytics and business decision-making.
- Able to analyse complex use cases to model and interpret data through critical thinking.
- Deep subject matter knowledge of data staging, data lakes, data warehousing, data marts and operational data stores, big data, and analytics as applicable to the telecoms business domain is essential.
- Experience with modern data processing and analytics technologies such as Big Query, Redshift, Teradata, Exadata, Abinitio, Cloudera, etc.
- Demonstrated expertise in implementing and managing IT controls within an analytics environment, including proficiency in ensuring data integrity, system reliability, and compliance with relevant governance frameworks and risk mitigation practices.
- Experience working high-volume data and file processing (real-time and batch processing).
Advantageous
- Big Data knowledge (Hadoop, Map Reduce, Spark, Kafka, etc.)
- Analytics: Python knowledge
- Experience architecting and designing cloud & big data solutions
- Experience with Analytics production implementations in the Cloud (AWS, GCP)
- Broad understanding of governance best practices for analytics platforms, data warehousing and business intelligence.
- Experience with Data Quality/Data Profiling, Metadata Integration, Master Data Management.
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: 16 October 2025.
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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- Vodacom is a leading African mobile communications company, serving over 200 million customers across South Africa, Tanzania, DRC, Mozambique, Kenya, Lesotho, Egypt, and Ethiopia. Our mobile networks reach a population of approximately 250 million people. Through Vodacom Business Africa (VBA), we also deliver managed services to enterprises in over 40 countries across the continent.
- We are truly data-driven, committed to delivering intelligent solutions that enhance customer experience and business performance. Our Big Data and AI team plays a pivotal role in enabling this transformation by supporting the CX and Digital space with scalable, innovative data capabilities.
- We’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our Big Data and AI team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment and is passionate about solving complex business problems using AI, Machine Learning, GenAI, and Agentic AI.
- You’ll work on high-impact use cases across customer experience and digital platforms developing models and AI products that drive strategic decisions and improve customer journeys.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Design and build AI solutions that deliver actionable insights and measurable business impact.
- Develop and deploy predictive models using large, diverse datasets across structured and unstructured domains.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Advanced Analytics, Engineering, and Business stakeholders.
- Contribute to the wider community to enable AI capability across Vodafone globally.
- Lead initiatives in GenAI, LLMs, and Agentic AI to support next-gen customer experience and digital products.
- Track and report model performance using compelling data visualizations and storytelling techniques.
- Mentor junior data scientists and contribute to capability building across the team.
- Partner with Big Data Engineering to automate and productionize AI workloads.
- Present findings to both technical and non-technical audiences, translating complex insights into business value.
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in quantitative fields like Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science Engineering, Artificial Intelligence or related fields (essential)
- A minimum of 4-6 years relevant experience in Big Data & Data Science.
- Experiencing working with and mentoring/coaching data scientists in training
- Experience with GenAI, LLMs, and MLOps/LLMOps frameworks.
- Experience in data manipulation: use of structured data tools (e.g., SQL), and unstructured data platforms (e.g. PySpark, NoSQL)
- Proficiency in at least one relevant programming language: Python (preferred), R, Java
- Experience across major machine learning model frameworks (e.g. H2O, scikit-learn, PyTorch, Tensorflow) and techniques (e.g. random forest, gradient boosting, k-means segmentation, multiple regression, factor analysis, time-series forecasting)
- Exposure to cloud native deployment of models and working with containerized technologies such as Docker and Kurbernetees.
- Knowledge of MLOps and LLMOps concepts and deployment of models through batch and real-time architectures.
- Professional and/or academic experience in Big Data analytics & deployment of models and algorithms to solve real-world problems (with deep statistical and machine learning modelling expertise)
- Familiarity with visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Qlik, D3, Apache Superset, Plotly, PowerBI, Opensearch, Grafana)
- Good interpersonal communication and presentation skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Analytical and expansive thinking with a strong desire to deliver and develop.
- Experience working with teams and coaching data scientists
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Design & Systems Thinking in relation to AI and Machine Learning Eco Systems.
- Real-time Decisioning & Intelligence use case deployment and evaluation experience.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, agile environment.
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: 14 October 2025.
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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- The Executive Head of Delivery for Vodacom Business (VB) is a senior leadership position responsible for the end-to-end delivery of products and solutions across all Business Units representing total revenue for VB.
- The role’s mandate is to ensure that all contracted client commitments are delivered per client requirements, timeously, profitably and client satisfied. The role will be responsible for both implementation and post implementation operations contracts, and mitigating delivery risks through robust contract and partner management.
- The incumbent will be accountable for achieving operational excellence, sustaining client satisfaction, and ensuring compliance with service-level agreements (SLAs) by leveraging internal capabilities and, where necessary, engaging external partners or subcontractors.
- To the extent that established delivery structures are already in place in mature Business Units, the executive head will partner with both Mobile and Vodacom Business Technology delivery teams to establish ways of work; accountability metrics; operational performance metrics, escalation metrics, and management routines.
- However, for complex multiple BU solutions, beyond mobile or for ventures or partner-delivered solutions, the Executive Head is responsible for setting up a delivery operating model comprised of a combination of internal resources (consolidation of what is already in the business) or partnership models with ventures or external partners.
- The executive head is accountable for the strategic governance, orchestration, and operational excellence of complex solution delivery across Vodacom’s Mobile, Fixed, and Beyond Connectivity portfolios.
- The role acts as a critical bridge between product teams, internal delivery units, and external partners to shape and uphold delivery frameworks that enhance customer experience and prevent downstream issues.
Your responsibilities will include:
Strategy Formulation & Execution:
- Strategic Delivery Oversight: Ensure the delivery of all Vodacom Business products and solutions, in alignment with sold commercials and client requirements.
Business Enablement
- Develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the impact of interventions and identify areas for continuous improvement Lead the integration of delivery and operational criteria into product design governance, ensuring that every product is conceived with scalability, feasibility, and supportability in mind.
- Ensure that service models, escalation paths, and documentation standards are embedded into every product, enabling seamless transition into in-life operations and customer support.
- Lead the stabilization phase post-launch, ensuring that knowledge transfer, training, and early issue resolution are executed with precision and accountability.
- Lead the feedback loop between delivery, operations, and product teams to ensure continuous improvement and future-readiness of product governance frameworks.
- Ensure the co-ordination of complex delivery across Vodacom Business, Partners and Subsidiaries and manages stakeholders to ensure on time delivery by upholding contractual obligations.
- Develop and implement a robust system for identifying and prioritising major customer delivery and in-life challenges.
- Enable data usage to identify trends, predict potential future challenges, and proactively implement preventative measures.
- Collaborates with Sales to ensure customer success across Vodacom Business in the delivery of large scale, complex technology projects to key customers.
- Contract Management: Negotiate, execute, and oversee back-to-back contracts with partners or subcontractors to ensure fulfilment of client SLAs and mitigation of delivery risks through collaboration with Supply Chain Management
- Partner & Subcontractor Management: Identify, engage, and manage third-party partners, Subsidiaries or subcontractors, maintaining quality and compliance standards.
- Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify delivery risks and implement controls to ensure business continuity and contractual compliance.
- Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify delivery risks and implement controls to ensure business continuity and contractual compliance.
- Manage programme budgets, business cases, and cost controls to maximise value delivered to the business and customers.
- Support commercial due diligence and investment decisions for new and in-life solutions.
Focused on achieving the following business performance on:
- On-time, on-budget delivery of all projects and contracts
- Compliance with client SLAs and zero critical delivery escalations
- Beyond connectivity contract retention rates
- Effective risk mitigation and absence of unmitigated delivery failures
- Client satisfaction scores and contract renewal rates
- Successful management of partner and subcontractor relationships
Stakeholder Management
- Lead, inspire, and develop a high-performing team delivering complex solutionsacross product and service lifecycles.
- Build strong relationships with key delivery partners, internal stakeholders, and executive sponsors.
- Build collaborative partnerships and alliances for business success.
- Collaborate with other departments (e.g., product, marketing) to improve bid competitiveness: Ensure alignment on offerings, pricing, and value proposition.
- Collaborate, champion and enable effective leadership and cross-functional working relationships to create a unique, superior customer experience based on leadership practice.
- Provide specialised and technical support to internal and external stakeholders to ensure achievement of functional and organisational objectives
- Establish and monitor healthy, diverse internal relations and implement remedial actions where required, in the achievement of organisational goals.
- Collaborate, champion and enable effective leadership and cross-functional working relationships to create a unique, superior customer experience based on leadership practice. Connect and leverage the skills of various functional teams to generate synergy across all the different customer touch points
Delivering through People:
- Set team goals and objectives aligned with overall business objectives.
- Build a high performance & diverse organisation, focused on generating growth opportunities from clients and prospects, and driving unique growth and development opportunities in line with relevant revenue & margin targets to be achieved.
- Support and enable the team to succeed by driving skills development and future fit talent in line with business strategy
- Oversee the activities of the team to ensure effective delivery of business outcomes.
- Support and enable the team to succeed by encourage frequent knowledge sharing between team members, amongst other enablement initiatives.
- Develop a high performing team by embedding formal performance management process, informal coaching and continuous 1:1 performance discussion
- Embed the Spirit of Vodacom by living the Spirit behaviours and culture codes, ensuring consistently high Spirit engagement levels.
- When required, initiate disciplinary processes for team members calling on support from HR when required
- Resolve grievances raised by team members and escalate only if required
- Motivate team members and ensure that their efforts are recognised by using Vodafone Stars platform.
- Encourage a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field (master’s preferred).
- Postgraduate qualifications/MBA (Desirable)
- Minimum 8 years’ experience in delivery management, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role overseeing multi-disciplinary teams.
- Proven track record of managing large-scale projects and long-term support contracts within the mobile, ISP, or technology sectors.
- Strong commercial acumen and contract negotiation skills.
- Experience in partner management and risk mitigation within complex delivery environments.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
- +5 years of management consulting and people management experience overseeing multi-disciplinary teams.
Technical Competencies
- Strategic mindset and out-of-the-box thinking
- Experience in solution selling within enterprise customers
- Deep understanding of the customer’s business, its market, and industry alongside key decision-makers and influencers in account organisation
- Ability to translate customers’ objectives and strategy into relevant Vodacom Business propositions
- Robust understanding of account P&L
- Experience working in a multinational matrix organisation
- Successful track record of managing multi-industry sales teams and demonstrating profitable revenue growth
- Strategic Thinking: Effectively delivers against assigned strategy, exceeding expectations. Translates strategy into clear areas of focus and priorities
Behavioural Competencies
- Customer Focus: Prioritizing customer needs and delivering excellent service
- Accountability: seeks feedback and identifies opportunities for improvement or innovation
- Collaboration: Actively fosters collaboration, seeks input and effectively partners
- Resilience: Actively seeks opportunities for growth, demonstrates a strong commitment to self improvement and has a growth mindset
- Flexibility: uses various techniques to influence others (lobbies, approaches decision makers, finds sponsors)
- People Management: Ensure team work together to deliver on their responsibilities creating accountability and ownership
- Organizational Savvy: Demonstrates strong understanding of assigned strategy for the Business/ Function and creates strong team alignment to the strategy.
Closing date for Applications: 21 October 2025.
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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- Vodacom is embarking on an exciting journey to redefine its business and reinvent the face of telecoms in South Africa. This journey will include the development of new revenue streams, business models and innovations, such as IoT, Financial Services, and digital/ICT applications across various industry verticals.
- Vodacom’s Group Strategy team is a high-performance team that is leading this journey by providing insight, thought leadership and strategic direction to the Group.
- And our team is growing! We are looking to increase our capabilities by adding an experienced strategist to help accelerate our ambitious expansion as a new Strategy and Transformation Manager. This role will combine strategy development and execution to drive change across the Group and our 8 operating companies.
- Strategy development & transformation: Lead the development of transformation strategies as required by the business. The objective to provide dedicated, project-based support that combines strategy development with implementation support, and involves:
- Driving common understanding of a problem
- Solving the problem through structured and aligned initiatives
- Assigning ownership to initiatives
- Standing up cross-functional teams to deliver initiatives
- Driving accountability through structured and rigorous governance under-pinned by KPIs
- Creating a single source of truth to measure delivery
- Driving change management, building cross-functional incentives and capability building
- The manager will work closely with the Managing Executive in driving the Transformation Agenda.
- Establishment of Execution Excellence Capability: Support markets in establishing capability to drive and monitor the execution of key strategic projects.
- Group Wide Major Strategic Projects Oversight: Create visibility on the execution of major strategic projects across the organisation to ensure diligent and disciplined execution as per ambitions stated in our Strategy.
- The role requires the incumbent to effectively deliver multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring consistent high-quality results and effective stakeholder engagement. The incumbent is expected to have significant and interactions with the Executive Committee and senior leaders within Vodacom and is required to have exceptional communication skills.
- The ideal candidate will be an influential thought leader, who is able to effectively work in and lead teams to drive high-performance and effort, and lead by living the values in the Spirit of Vodacom.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Impact to the business
- Deliver strategic projects within Vodacom Group
- Formulate business issues into robust and quantified decision frameworks to identify options with preferred solutions
- Identify and analyse business trends and understand significance and business implications
- Identify and develop the supporting business case underpinning strategic opportunities
- Provide information and analysis to support key strategic decisions and long-term planning implementation
Customers, Suppliers & Third Parties
- Work with suppliers to effectively deliver results (including advisors, lawyers and financial institutions)
Teamwork
- Coordinate multi-functional teams (Commercial, Technology, Finance etc.)
- Execute and drive projects towards clear conclusion, results and recommendations
- Work effectively within the organization to build consensus and ideas
Innovation and Change
- Maintain personal motivation and drive to take ideas from conception to implementation
- Drive new thinking and innovative thinking in the business
- Take personal risks to ensure issues addressed properly and fully
- Be willing to make important decisions under pressure, sometimes without full information being available
Communication
- Communicate effectively at all levels, from staff to CEO level
- Conduct a systemic evaluation and presentation of business opportunities that highlights key risks/opportunities
- Structure ideas, recommendations and written arguments into compelling storylines that facilitate effective decision-making
Leadership
- Bring best-practice management and thought leadership to influence teams’ output
- Collaborate with multi-functional teams on best practice & alignment with Vodafone strategy requirements
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- Degree in a financial/numerate discipline – e.g., Commerce, Science, Engineering
- Postgraduate qualification (e.g., Masters, MBA, CA(SA)) beneficial
- Emerging strategy leader with strong strategy or business development experience at management level
- Min 5 years’ experience in a corporate strategy function in an established corporate
AND / OR
- Min 3 years’ experience in management consulting at a leading consulting/advisory firm
Competency / Performance Drivers
- Strong analytical skills
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills (presentations, report writing, etc.)
- Research ability (‘curious & questioning mind’)
- Strong project management
- Effective teamwork
- Excellent influencing & negotiation skills
Technical / Professional Expertise
- Understanding of Strategy process and best practice – including strategy development, implementation and communication
- Understand market structures, competition dynamics and consumer behaviours
- Background in Management Consulting, or relevant experience in a senior corporate strategy role
- Working knowledge of the market, players and trends in Telecoms industry
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: 14 October 2025
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Role Purpose:
- To manage all data required for the Payments and Claims Query Reporting when Vodacom’s goods and Services are sold to our subscribers
Your responsibilities will include:
Data Analysis & Reporting
- Analyze large datasets from multiple sources (e.g., billing, CRM, ERP) to extract financial insights.
- Develop and maintain financial dashboards and reports using Power BI and Excel.
- Automate recurring financial reports and ensure data accuracy and consistency.
- Perform variance analysis, forecasting, and budgeting support.
- To respect and maintain confidentiality of data.
Data Engineering & Management
- Design and maintain SQL-based data pipelines to support financial reporting needs.
- Ensure data integrity, quality, and governance across financial datasets.
- Collaborate with IT and BI teams to optimize data architecture and performance.
Finance Support
- Assist in month-end and year-end financial processes with data-driven insights.
- Support revenue assurance, cost analysis, and profitability tracking.
- Translate financial requirements into technical specifications for data solutions.
Trade Partner Support
- To carry out weekly TPI payments for all partner types and provide the necessary reporting thereof
- To resolve claim-related queries submitted by Trade Partners via Remedy
- To perform the weekly and monthly reporting as required for month-end purposes
- To timeously prepare, review and maintain all SOX-related controls/documents
- To manage ad hoc projects to drive automation within the Dealer Commissions environment
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- Matric - essential
- A relevant Bachelor’s degree
- Professional certifications (e.g., Microsoft Power BI, SQL, CIMA/ACCA) are a plus
- 2-5 years of experience in SQL’s, Power BI and Financial/Data Modelling
- Must have Excel Advanced experience/qualifications
- 3 Years or more Reporting experience
- Experience in dealing with Internal and External Parties to resolve queries
- Experience in dealing with senior Execs & key stakeholders
- Experience in extracting data and organizing it in meaningful formats.
Job Knowledge:
- Reconciliation and Reporting Tools/Models
- MS Excel advanced – Power BI
- Eppix/Siebel/Infoweb - advantageous
- SQL’s – advanced
- Strong IT skills
- Database Understanding.
- Ability to work with large datasets.
Job Related Skills:
- Interpersonal skills
- Problem resolution skills
- Excellent communication skills – both written and spoken
- Time Management Skills
- Attention to detail
Technical Skills
- Advanced Excel (Power Query, PivotTables, VBA/macros a plus)
- Power BI (DAX, data modeling, dashboard design)
- Advance SQL (complex queries, sql tuning)
- Experience and knowledge with data warehousing/ETL processes
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) is advantageous
Finance Knowledge
- Strong understanding of financial principles (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow)
- Experience working with finance teams or in a finance function
- Telecoms industry experience is highly desirable
Soft Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities
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
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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- The Ventures and Business Partnership team is driving the pivot of Vodacom Business into Intelligent Business, with a vision of delivering end-to-end digital transformation solutions to its customers and steadily reducing the % of revenue from connectivity.
- It is building an ecosystem to deliver this around its in-house capabilities beyond connectivity (IoT, Cloud, Hosting & Security) adding its Ventures’ capabilities (IoT, Managed Services, Payment’s security, Health, Agri and Edutech platforms) and Partners, who are Big Tech to start-ups.
Activities include:
- understanding the enterprise and digital technology and services landscape to identify potential partners or acquisition targets: early-stage companies to Big Tech
- Managing the ventures portfolio to increase value of the businesses standalone and to Vodacom Business as it seeks to add more capabilities to its portfolio
- forming and/or investing in strategic investments that result in significant revenue and operating income growth for Vodacom Business.
Role purpose:
- The EHOD Ventures Operations and Strategy will develop and drive Overall VSA Ventures Portfolio strategy and ensure alignment, Drive financial performance of Ventures portfolio.
- Lead the identification, entrepreneurial incubation and commercialising of new sources of growth for Vodacom while building leading edge competencies i.r.o emerging Technologies.
- This role will encompass understanding Vodacom South Africa overall strategy and identifying opportunities and understanding how a partnership/acquisition could add significant value to Vodacom, assessing market opportunities, cultivating and/or investing in strategic partnerships, and possible acquisitions of start-up or established companies.
- In addition, it will drive synergies across all subsidiaries to ensure efficient operations including control and governance framework implementation and monitoring
Your responsibilities will include:
- Vodacom Ventures Strategy Formulation and Execution:
- Formulate, own and drive the ventures portfolio strategy in Vodacom Business to ensure alignment with shareholder expectations
- Review and influence Vodacom Ventures (Subsidiaries) strategies to ensure alignment with Vodacom strategic Objectives
- Monitor Ventures strategy execution and provide guidance and support
- Participate in the process surrounding potential investment acquisitions from identification, evaluation, to due diligence application ito legal, tax and finance
- structures concluding in the development and negotiation of formal agreements in conjunction with M&A
- Ventures Portfolio Performance management and Monitoring
- Provide business insights to Subsidiaries to ensure awareness and focus towards Vodacom Business performance and delivery
- Stewardship of Company equity in all subsidiaries including identifying opportunities to increase value, assisting on strategic initiatives in subsidiaries eg Funding, forming new companies, etc
- Monitor and drive performance in line with Vodacom Business Revenue and efficiency targets
- Prepare annual/quarterly subsidiary reviews and forecasts and ensure alignment to Vodacom Business Performance objectives.
- Cultivate and maintain positive, strategic long-term relationships with subsidiaries management teams to achieve mutual benefit
- Liaise with VB Partnerships to leverage beneficial partnerships for subsidiaries.
Ventures Governance and Control:
- Ensure implementation of Vodacom / Best Practice governance and compliance frameworks within subsidiaries to mitigate risks
- Co-ordinate governance and Compliance activities/ engagement between Vodacom and Subsidiaries
- Support Ventures Board activities
Stakeholder & Relationship Management:
- Develop and implement a refined engagement and collaboration framework to enable seamless interlock between Vodacom and the subsidiaries
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with key personnel within subsidiaries.
- Establish executive-level relationships with key subsidiaries and ventures stakeholders to advance shared strategic goals.
- Build trust-based engagement models across internal and external stakeholders.
- Act as the executive sponsor in critical partnerships, ensuring escalations are resolved swiftly.
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- Postgraduate level qualification
- Minimum 8 - 10 years relevant experience - essential
- 5+ years’ experience in related consulting, entrepreneurial and/or business incubation an advantage
- A minimum of 5 years proven experience in Senior Management - essential.
- Working experience in the telecoms/ICT (advantageous)
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
- Understanding enterprise technology and services landscape, today and looking forward
- Understanding the SA telecommunication and ICT industries and working knowledge of the communication industry, systems, and networks, as well as, current and emerging technologies and standards.
- Interpersonal skills, adaptability and agility to work across all levels of an organisation
- Business planning, inclusive of financial and operational model preparation
- Organizing and leading effective cross-departmental and cross-functional teams.
- Experience creating new routes to market through channel partners, joint-ventures, new startups
- Excited about emerging technologies and passionate about the Next Big Thing
- Previous involvement with Startup(s) and Corporate Ventures is valued
- M&A experience advantageous Experience defining New Business Models
- Adaptable across large global companies and startups
- Delivery focussed with an aptitude to be operationally involved
Closing date for Applications: 21 October 2025.
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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- The purpose of this role is to implement the CBU Sales and Distribution strategy in conjunction with all the branded channel partners and strategies while creating regional strategies aligned to business objectives.
- The main KPI’s that need to be implemented and managed are channel outputs, related to channel strategy. Net Sales Revenue being the overarching objective. Deeper understanding of segmented marketing, strategy and business development as well as analytical and basic financial competence.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Brand representative: Be the face of the brand across all channels, ensuring a unified and compelling brand representation. Uphold and promote the brand values, messaging, and visual identity consistently within the branded channel.
- Support, track and monitor partner profitability aligned with Vodacom IBRO (Inflow, Base, Retention, Outflow) ambitions.
- Clear and concise communication (both written and verbal) to Trade Partners pertaining to key business changes/processes
- To ensure that all relevant channel targets are set, communicated and implemented, and performance is consistently measured and monitored.
- Responsible for managing, tracking and report on all budget line items related to Branded Channels.
- Utilize analytics tools to monitor channel performance, track KPIs, and derive actionable insights. Provide regular reports on channel growth, engagement, and areas for improvement. Ensure that the relevant reports are analytical; accurately and timeously produced to fully understand the market. To feedback to centre where relevant.
- Weekly and monthly management reporting and analysis of branded channel and competitor landscape
- Support the trade partners and customers with queries and to expedite appropriate resolution of queries.
- Fourth line escalation from trade partners (customer queries)
- Operationalise the Sales, Business Development, People, Projects and General Management strategies. (Inform, customise and Execute comprehensive channel strategies to maximise brand exposure and engagement. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align channel efforts with overall brand objectives.)
- Execute regional initiatives aligned with Vodacom business and head office strategic objectives, products (driving acceleration units into Channel aligned with BSC – VFS, VB, Fixed) and activities related to the Region.
- Develop captivating and relevant content for each channel, tailoring it to the specific audience and
platform requirements. Ensure content consistency while adapting to the unique characteristics of branded channel. Eg Regional deals
- Utilize analytics tools to monitor channel performance, track KPIs, upskill trade partners using analytics and derive actionable insights.
- Engagement and strategic alignment with key internal and external stakeholders.
- Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies.
- Continuously optimize channel performance through, data analysis.
- Design creative go-to-market approaches in collaboration with the regional marketing team, and ensure effective execution within timelines and budget
- Seek out new opportunities and channels that align with the brand's target audience (segmented approach).
- Drive seamless customer experiences. Provide insight and feedback about the customer journey and processes across all Branded channels. Through a better understanding of customer pain points and be consistent in approach aligned with CX experience ambition of Vodacom. Spirit days/surveys in Branded channel
- Develop guidelines and train internal and external stakeholders on brand standards for consistent representation. Provide guidance to content creators and collaborators to ensure alignment with brand goals.
- Enhance synergy and drive unified agile executions across business units and expedite decision making. Embedding one Vodacom principle Drive a culture of innovative approaches.
- Understand the market to foster better customer engagements to grow customer base and stimulate usage.
- Act as the Regional representative (SPOC) to drive Axonify, Qlik; product launch, roadshows, regional events, council meetings and alignment.
- To assist Vodacom’s Retail Business Partners in growing their business by providing strategic direction and focus supported by effective business analysis including but not limited to internal data analysis, competitor, and market research in identifying opportunities and threats in the market as they arise.
- Maintaining effective trade partner relationships with all franchisees and distribution partners & further maintaining an informative relationship with all relevant manufactures and suppliers as well as all other internal and external stakeholders.
- To identify business training growth and development needs of your channel/ client base and ensure implementation thereof & co-ordinate training for retail outlets on Vodacom South Africa Policies and Procedures, sales skills, customer etiquette, overcoming objections, conversion selling, new product and network developments.
- Conduct quarterly reviews with channel partners to determine potential gaps and implement treatment plans for poor performing stores and review performance thereafter & ensure that operational guidelines and policies and procedures are implemented at store level.
- Ensure that important and regular communications, notices and memos are understood and disseminated within channel.
- Managing daily sales and operational escalations into various Vodacom Business units ensuring timely resolve and process improvements.
- Provide insights for effective analysing for improvement of TNPS across Retail touchpoints and ENPS for the Region
- Implement people transformation initiatives in third parties
- Analyse, resolve and feedback on all regional customer issues.
- Assist in training initiatives linked to to knowledge gaps and new product introductions
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- Relevant Sales or general business National Diploma (3 years) (NQF 6) or Degree (NQF 7) with a minimum of 2 years’ experience in a managerial capacity with staff responsibility
- Must be willing to travel frequently (must have a drivers licence), own vehicle
- Must be able to present indepth
- Monthly Sales and data analysis
Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:
- 5-8 years’ experience in a sales, reporting or analytical function with management skills
- Attention to detail and analytics within reporting.
- Commercial acumen
- Demonstrates strong communication skills, influencing and persuading teams to ensure effective collaboration across channels, and with other stores
- Strong understanding and knowledge of competitors’, products, services, processes and educates customers according to defined Vodafone standards in order to improve customers´ experience;
- Uses best practice knowledge to provide thought leadership through ensuring the teams are aligned with the common goals and focus areas (e.g.for provides operational excellence in regional area in order to launch a key product).
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: 14 October 2025
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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- To virtually manage and drive sales on the allocated accounts, ensures the delivery of products & solutions through collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, with the objective of growing the base and achieving the sales targets, customer experience and all commercial objectives of the portfolio.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Diploma/ Degree/Equivalent
- A minimum of 3+ years’ work experience in a Sales and Service experience in the telecommunications or technology related environments.
Technical Competencies
- Experience in solution selling within enterprise customers
- Deep understanding of the customer’s business, it’s market and industry alongside key decision-makers and influencers in account organisation
- Ability to translate customer’s objectives and strategy into relevant Vodacom Business propositions
- Successful track record of managing multi- industry sales and demonstrate profitable revenue growth
- Understanding of the SA telecommunication landscape
- Understanding of Companies customer requirements
- Understanding of technical concepts and the ability to communicate it as viable appealing market offerings
- Understanding of SA business landscape
- Understanding of the Value Chain Analysis with regards to various customer businesses.
Behavioural Competencies
- Customer Focus: Prioritizing customer needs and delivering excellent service
- Accountability: seeks feedback and identifies opportunities for improvement or innovation
- Collaboration: Actively fosters collaboration, seeks input and effectively partners
- Resilience: Actively seeks opportunities for growth, demonstrates a strong commitment to self-improvement and has a growth mindset
- Flexibility: uses various techniques to influence others (lobbies, approaches decision makers, finds sponsors)
- Organizational Savvy: Demonstrates strong understanding of assigned strategy for the Business/ Function and creates strong team alignment to the strategy.
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: 14 October 2025.
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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- To develop and manage a portfolio of consumer products as part of a product team in line with company goals and CBU strategy
- To give inputs into the product strategy and product roadmap impacting the overall BU strategy.
- To be the end-to-end custodian of the product portfolio, responsible for driving its development from concept to launch, including business case creation, product specification for IT, user acceptance testing, go-to-market execution and post implementation performance management.
Your responsibilities will include:
- The product lifecycle management and revenue optimisation of the existing portfolio of Products & Services related to data, sms, international and roaming services.
- To work with different parts of the business to deliver products and services (This would involve working on documentation, providing inputs and evaluation for financial business cases, defining business rules and working with customer experience teams to define and refine customer journeys)
- Conduct feasibility studies on product segments to determine inclusion into BU strategy.
- Perform commercial analysis and work with finance business partner team to determine the commercial impact within the business unit.
- Conceptualise and pitch new product ideas based on consumer & market trends and opportunity management principles, in line with business strategy and performance
- To regularly review launched products/product governance to ensure the performance is in line with initial assumptions and implement corrective measures if needed. To ensure sustainability.
- Own and drive a set of product P&L’s fostering stakeholder management, inclusive decision making and influence related activities.
- Be well abreast of key competitor activity within the environment and suggest/review activity to mitigate.
- Monthly product presentations for an audience consisting of managing executives and senior management
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- Matric essential
- Relevant 3 year Business or Technical degree essential.
- Prior telecom experience is a plus
- Prior product management experience is a plus
- Understanding of telecoms product and technology is a plus
Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:
- Min 5 years’ experience
- Exceptional Communication & presentation skills, written and verbal
- Understanding of financials, commercial acumen and analytics are required.
- Stakeholder Management skills
- Interpersonal and self- management skills are a must.
- Networking and influence skills are critical
- A thorough understanding of GTM implementations.
- Flexibility, problem solving and dealing with ambiguity
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: 14 October 2025.
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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- The Business Consultant will play a crucial role within the Business Transformation Office (BTO), driving data-driven insights and translating them into actionable interventions and projects.
- This role will be instrumental in understanding customer journeys, analysing business processes, identifying opportunities for improvement and activating projects across the organisation.
- The Business Consultant will work closely with stakeholders, including business leaders, subject matter experts, and IT teams, to define impactful projects that enhance customer experience, improve operational efficiency, and support strategic decision-making.
Your responsibilities will include:
Key Accountabilities and Decision Ownership:
- Analyse customer data, market trends, and operational performance metrics to identify areas for improvement and opportunities for growth.
- Leverage a principled-based and data-led approach to conduct in-depth analysis of business requirements, including gathering and documenting stakeholder needs, identifying pain points, and defining success metrics.
- Translate business needs into clear, concise, and actionable transformation roadmap, projects and acceptance criteria leveraging methodologies like process mapping and service design.
- Conduct feasibility studies and business cases to evaluate the potential impact of proposed projects
- Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to track the business cases and other key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor the effectiveness of business initiatives and projects.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive customer journey maps, identifying touchpoints, pain points, and opportunities for improvement across all channels.
- Conduct customer interviews, surveys, and focus groups to gather customer feedback and understand their needs and expectations
- Analyse existing business processes and decision stage gates and identify areas for improvement, such as automation, streamlining, and re-engineering.
- Design new processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness across the organisation
- Develop comprehensive project plans, including scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines and resource allocation for all assigned transformation initiatives.
- Lead project teams in the execution of project plans, ensuring adherence to governance and quality standards.
- Proactively identify and manage project risks, dependencies and the critical path
Stakeholder and Relationship Management
- Collaborate with project managers to define project scope, develop project plans, and track progress against key milestones.
- Support the implementation and testing of new systems and processes
- Build and maintain strong relationships with executive leadership, department heads, and other key stakeholders.
- Develop and deliver regular, transparent status reports to the BTO leadership and key stakeholders
- Effectively communicate the value proposition of transformation initiatives to all levels of the organisation.
- Provide specialised and technical support to internal and external stakeholders to ensure achievement of functional and organisational objectives
- Establish and monitor healthy, diverse internal and external relations and implement remedial actions where required, in the achievement of organisational goals.
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- B Degree in Business Administration/Equivalent
- A Post Graduate Degree in Technology or a related field is advantageous
- 5 - 8 years of experience in business transformation, process improvement, or a related field with demonstrated experience in:
- Proven experience in conducting business needs analysis, requirements gathering, and process mapping.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to analyse data and draw meaningful insights.
- Experience with data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Excel).
- Knowledge of and experience in Agile methodologies and project management.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
Technical Competencies
- Strategic mind set and out of box thinking
- Experience in solution selling within enterprise customers
- Deep understanding of the customer’s business, it’s market and industry alongside key decision-makers and influencers in account organisation
- Strong communication skills and the ability to interact comfortably with a cross-section of management,including C-suite executives, at a global level
- Ability to translate customer’s objectives and strategy into relevant Vodacom Business propositions
- Robust understanding of account P&L
- Experience working in multinational matrix organisation
- Successful track record of managing multi- industry sales teams and demonstrate profitable revenue growth
- Strategic Thinking: Effectively delivers against assigned strategy, exceeding expectations. Translates strategy into clear areas of focus and priorities for
- Understanding of the SA telecommunication landscape
- Understanding of Companies customer requirements
- Understanding of technical concepts and the ability to communicate it as viable appealing market offerings
- Understanding of SA business landscape
- Understanding of the Value Chain Analysis with regards to various customer businesses.
Behavioural Competencies
- Customer Focus: Prioritizing customer needs and delivering excellent service
- Accountability: seeks feedback and identifies opportunities for improvement or innovation
- Collaboration: Actively fosters collaboration, seeks input and effectively partners
- Resilience: Actively seeks opportunities for growth, demonstrates a strong commitment to self improvement and has a growth mindset
- Flexibility: uses various techniques to influence others (lobbies, approaches decision makers, finds sponsors)
- People Management: Ensure team work together to deliver on their responsibilities creating accountability and ownership
- Organizational Savvy: Demonstrates strong understanding of assigned strategy for the Business/ Function and creates strong team alignment to the strategy.
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: 14 October 2025.
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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- This senior leadership role involves strategic planning, team leadership, and technical capability to ensure that the Vodacom international connectivity and services meets the highest standards of resilience, performance and security.
- Oversee and manage Vodacom’s submarine cable and international Points of Presence (POP) investments, ensuring robust, scalable connectivity between the UK, Europe, and African OPCOs, and initiate infrastructure upgrades to meet demand growth.
- Deliver IP transit and MPLS services to the Vodacom OPCOs in Africa
Your responsibilities will include:
- Lead international best practice for international networks across all Operating Companies (OPCOs)
- Develop a clear and compelling international network strategy aligned with the Vodacom technology strategy and business goals.
- Craft and maintain a long-term international capacity sourcing framework for all OPCOs, based on 10-year rolling traffic projections
- Propose and manage investments in new cable systems and POPs, and upgrades on existing cable systems and POPs (business cases, approvals and implementation)
- Represent Vodacom’s interests in submarine cable consortiums in which Vodacom invested.
- Manage international capacity inventory, activations & de-activations, perform route management and monitor utilization to ensure sufficient timely capacity, quality and geodiversity between POPs
- Perform assessments of OPCOs’ international connectivity and POP resilience and capacity, recommend improvements and monitor implementation.
- Manage International Network budgets, business cases, approvals, payments, and improve cost efficiencies.
- Manage a support team to be immediately available for any International Network emergencies and recovery of traffic and services.
- Provide support to Vodacom OPCOs, wholesale and enterprise units on their international networks and customer requirements.
- Develop and enforce network security policies and procedures to comply with Vodafone Cyber Security Policies to protect against threats and vulnerabilities.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure international network initiatives are effectively integrated and aligned with overall business needs.
- Define scope and service levels of maintenance contracts and manage vendors against SLA’s
- Manage relationships with vendors and service providers, ensuring timely procurement of necessary equipment and services.
- Enhance the joint operating model with Vodafone and amongst OPCOs and expand the Vodacom International Network footprint.
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (Essential).
- A postgraduate qualification (e.g. MBA, Law, Commerce) is highly advantageous.
- Expert qualification in network technologies e.g. CCIE or HCIE (Recommended)
- 7 to 10 years Managerial experience (Essential)
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
- Knowledge of the submarine telecoms industry, technology and how cable consortium structures are established and managed
- Knowledge of IP Transit and the mechanics of delivering it resiliently and securely.
- Proven track record in managing the delivery of large engineering projects.
- Well-developed and applied understanding of commercial and financial principles
- Rational thinking, analytical skills, negotiation skills, interpersonal skills, decision making skills, presentation skills, communication skills, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and demonstrate resilience to ensure the optimal solution is selected with a full understanding of the costs, timescales and risk involved.
- Ability to lead, motivate, and develop a team of network engineers.
- At least 10 years of experience in telecommunications, with a strong background in international network strategy, deployment, and optimization.
- Proven leadership experience managing cross-functional teams and complex network operations in multiple geographies.
Closing date for Applications: 22 October 2025.
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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- To conduct deep analysis on product performance across all relevant internal metrics for revenue and sales volumes. This includes analysis of macro-economic factors and competitor products.
- To provide feedback, insights, and recommendations on pricing and regional specific deals to the relevant teams in the centre, for the improvement in sales and revenue performance.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Deep analysis of sales and revenue performance at a customer segment, product, channel, and geographic level.
- Feedback and recommend demand strategies based on product pricing and channel dynamics.
- Support branded and unbranded channels with insights and recommendations on product and channel performance.
- Regional SPOC for CVM, products and services, insights and big data teams based in Head Office.
- Continuous monitoring of competitor products and services.
- Presentation of analysis and recommendations to various stakeholders.
- Drive the local implementation of the CARE and Customer Experience Excellence strategy developed by COPS into the region and counties.
- Work with Channel Managers and Branded/Unbranded Specialists in implementing CXX strategy and executing in-store elements.
- Provide ongoing feedback to COPS for continuous improvements on CXX journey.
- Analyse regional customer base in conjunction with Head Office CVM team to provide insight and recommendations on trends or behaviour of base.
- Customer appreciation trackers, (e.g. tNPS, rNPS, BMS, MAPS) to derive Customer insights and Customer Strategy for input on CX, Product and CVM growth objectives.
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- Matric / Grade 12, and
- 3 year commercial/Data Analytics/marketing/sales diploma or degree (NQF 6 or higher) or SAQA accredited equivalent (essential) with
- 3-5 years relevant experience (essential)
- Valid Driver’s licence (essential)
- Knowledge of products (advantageous)
Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:
- Product pricing analysis
- Planning and organising
- Performance analysis and reporting
- Big data analytics
- Ability to work with complex information and data.
- Ability to build strong relationships and credibility with multiple stakeholders.
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: 14 October 2025
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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- Responsible for providing legal advice to line leaders and executives of the Enterprise Business Unit in Vodacom South Africa on a broad range of commercial, legal and regulatory matters in a manner which ensures compliance with applicable laws and regulations
Your responsibilities will include:
- Responsible for providing accurate, effective, and timely legal advice, analysis and support at an expert level on complex matters of significant, strategic and/or financial value to the Enterprise Business Unit.
- Negotiating with enterprise customers complex transactions and commercial arrangements relating to the company’s Enterprise Business Unit and providing legal advice regarding these transactions and arrangements to senior business stakeholders.
- Drafting a wide range of complex contracts for the Enterprise Business Unit.
- Collaborate with Vodacom Contract Management Team and work closely with the multi-disciplinary operational functions to draft service agreements for complex solution designs.
- Collaborate with executive teams to improve commercial strategy and devise negotiation plans.
- Maintain visibility across enterprise contractual commitments and ensuring alignment with commercial and operational teams.
- Identify and communicate legal and compliance risks and manage legal risk.
- Provide general legal guidance and advice to business.
- Draft promotion / competition / product terms and conditions.
- Manage and resolve customer disputes within the Enterprise Business Unit.
- Keep business stakeholders updated and briefed on key projects and risk management.
- Ensure that 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 Managing Executive: Legal Affairs and/or Chief Legal Risk and Compliance Officer (as the case may be) informed /involved on major or complex issues.
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- LLB Degree and admitted attorney with a minimum of 8 – 10 years post qualification experience.
- Prior experience in providing commercial legal advice within a major law firm or reputable corporate.
- Extensive commercial law and commercial drafting and negotiation experience, with ability to provide timely, innovative and commercially-sound legal solutions in a fast- moving industry.
- Experienced commercial attorney with knowledge of telecoms industry and general technology law.
- Fluency in English is mandatory.
Knowledge:
- Demonstrable wide-ranging commercial experience. (essential)
- Working knowledge of Competition Law, Data Privacy Laws and Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-related Information Act essential.
- Experience in assisting with advising on bids and related work advantageous.
- Comprehensive knowledge of industry practices, laws and regulations relevant to Vodacom South Africa’s Enterprise Business Unit, with a deep understanding of the unique legal challenges faced by companies operating in the telecommunications and technology sectors.
Core Competencies:
- Highly developed decision-making, collaboration and interpersonal skills.
- Team player with strong negotiating/persuasive skills.
- Strategic thinking, analytical skills and attention to detail.
- A solutions-focused, engaging approach whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism, ethics, and integrity.
- An agile (think on your feet and flexible around business priorities), hands-on professional with a strong sense of initiative, pro-activity and an investigative mind-set.
- Commercial acumen. Customer Focused. Ability to understand trade-offs/balance between business risk and legal compliance.
- External perspective, i.e., anticipate market changes and recommend viable solutions.
- Proactive stakeholder engagement.
- Proactive awareness and communication of legal and / or regulatory developments within the telecommunications and technology industries.
Closing date for Applications: 10 October 2025.
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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- The Group Executive Head of Data & Analytics will lead the strategic direction and execution of Vodacom's data and analytics initiatives.
- This role is pivotal in driving data-driven decision-making across the organization, ensuring data accessibility, quality, and governance, and leveraging advanced analytics to uncover deeper insights and predictive trends.
- The successful candidate will collaborate across the Group’s entities and verticals, including finance, commercial, IT, and customer service, to enhance Vodacom's digital presence and improve customer engagement.
Your responsibilities will include:
Data enablement:
- Ensure data accessibility, quality, and governance across the organization.
- Develop and enforce data policies, maintain data standards, and define data roles and responsibilities.
- Oversee the centralized management of data assets and ensure compliance with local regulatory requirements.
Performance reporting:
- Provide actionable insights through regular reporting and automation.
- Centralize KPI development and performance reporting to reduce duplication and errors.
- Implement digital MPR frameworks and transform manual reporting processes.
Advanced analytics:
- Leverage advanced techniques to uncover deeper insights and predictive trends.
- Utilize predictive analytics in finance, create task teams for insights generation, and integrate AI through collaboration with COEs.
- Develop and implement a well-governed Insights Framework to support data-driven decision-making
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- Educational background: A bachelor's or master's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field.
- Experience: A minimum of 10 years of experience in data and analytics, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
- Technical skills: Proficiency in data governance, data quality management, and advanced analytics techniques. Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI), data management platforms, and programming languages (e.g., Python, R).
- Industry knowledge: In-depth understanding of the telecommunications industry and its data-related challenges and opportunities.
- Project management: Proven experience in managing large-scale data projects and initiatives, with a strong track record of delivering results on time and within budget.
Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:
- Strategic thinking: Ability to develop and implement data and analytics strategies that align with organizational goals.
- Leadership: Proven experience in leading cross-functional teams and driving collaboration across departments.
- Technical expertise: Strong knowledge of data governance, data quality, and advanced analytics techniques.
- Problem-solving: Ability to analyse complex data sets and provide actionable insights.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely.
- Innovation: A forward-thinking approach to leveraging new technologies and methodologies to drive business growth.
Closing date for Applications: 23 October 2025.
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