Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- The Product Owner represents the business stakeholders and is the voice of the customer guiding individual DevOps teams, responsible for ensuring that the delivery team delivers value to the business according to the outcome vision
- This role is responsible for the definition of customer-centric items or user stories from the capability/feature roadmap defined by the Product Manager, ranking and prioritizing them, and adding them to the team backlog
- This role will work closely with the Release Train Engineer/Agile Programme Manager and Scrum Master in coordinating day to day activities such as sprint planning, retrospectives and other agile functions to ensure collaboration and effective delivery of user stories against commercial milestone objectives
- Product owner works to Agile principles, and will be responsible for the prioritization and delivery of the backlog of change initiatives to maximize business benefit of the products and features we offer. The rote works closely with the team to develop user stories, acceptance criteria and full business benefits, and convey the vision onwards to our in-house Scrum teams, or, where required, to our Offshore development partners
- This role is responsible for ensuring the products commercial viability , regulatory compliance and technical enablement across all platforms and channels
Your responsibilities will include:
- Own, drive, and focus the team on delivery of business value and content
- Develop and define user stories / items and acceptance criteria from the feature and capability roadmap defined by Product Managers
- Rank and prioritize user stories / items and add them to the team backlog for sprint development, conveying a clear vision of what is required to be built
- Approve the final release plan and accept all deliverables against defined user stories and acceptance criteria
- Analyse and report delivery risks and opportunities, and engage stakeholders for communications and decision-making
- Participate in retrospectives to identify improvement opportunities
- Acts as single point of business contact for the DevOps team
- Manage the financial plan for the delivery team, providing forecasts
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field
- A total of eight or more years experience of which at least five or more years is in the successful delivery in Product Ownership (or equivalent role) across full product lifecycles, from MVP to marketable products in iterations, including support transition specifically in an insurance or bank assurance environment
- FAIS accreditation ( RE1 and RE5 )preferrential
- Experience in successfully Leading and mentoring agile / DevOps teams in Large multi-team environments
- Experience in agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP), Test Driven Design and Behavioural Driven Design
- Experience in successful delivery against financial / resource constraints
- Experience in the use of analytics and AB / multivariate testing
- Experience with requirements definition and use case modelling
- Professional experience and knowledge of the Telecommunications industry strongly preferred
- Experience in PNL management preferential
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
- Experience in Long Term Insurance product development and implementation
- Excellent problem solving skills, with the ability to minimize overhead tasks for the team and manage interdependences with other teams
- Excellent relationship building and influencing skills, with the ability to foster an inclusive team culture
- Excellent business acumen and understanding of the role of the capability in contributing to business value
- In-depth understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital. services market and emerging business and technology trends
- A strong customer-centric focus, with an entrepreneurial and ROL mindset Ability to function with a high degree of autonomy
- Strong financial management skills and acumen
- Strong time-management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple balls, and comfortable working under pressure
- Excellent verbal and written communications and collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with the delivery team to deliver user stories
- Flexible with planning and work estimation, managing and empowering the team (without needing to micromanage), able to continuously balance between the customer and commercial needs
- Digital/software product ownership in large scale environments
- User story definition and refinement
- Expertise in Agile software development environment and methods
- Market research, design thinking, and lean start-up methods; business modelling
- Customer experience design of digital products and services
- Analytics / AB / multivariate testing and related tools
- Data-driven decision making
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: 20 August 2026.
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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- The Junior legal advisor will provide support within the Legal Affairs team by assisting with legal research, document review, drafting, matter coordination and compliance activities across Vodacom’s business.
- The role will also provide practical support on corporate and commercial arrangements, strategic partnerships, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, funding arrangements, intra-group reorganisations, inter company agreements, regulatory processes, merger control, market inquiries, investigations and other competition law workstreams within a fast-paced telecommunications environment.
- The incumbent will develop a broad understanding of the business and the competition law, corporate and commercial issues relevant to the telecommunications sector, applying sound legal judgement and a solutions-oriented approach to support strategic and operational objectives.
- The role offers strong exposure to a variety of matters and transactions, with a focus on competition law matters and cross-functional business collaboration.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Competition law advisory support: Provide junior-level support on competition law matters, including legal research, monitor competition law developments across South Africa and other relevant African jurisdictions, legal advice, risk assessments and review of commercial agreements, strategic partnerships and other business documents from a competition law perspective.
- Merger control support: Assist with merger control assessments, merger filings, information gathering, preparation of submissions and coordination of internal stakeholder inputs for competition authority processes.
- Investigations, complaints and litigation support: Support competition law investigations, complaints, third-party merger interventions and competition-law-related litigation including by collating evidence, engaging with internal stakeholders and drafting submissions.
- Competition law compliance support: Assist with the development and implementation of competition law compliance initiatives, including training materials, compliance checklists, internal controls, dawn raid guidance, information-sharing protocols, clean team processes, knowledge management and internal awareness communications.
- Collaborate closely with various business teams to provide timely and pragmatic legal support.
- Undertake legal research and provide clear, concise advice on competition law matters affecting the business.
- Identify and propose practical risk mitigants and positions consistent with Vodacom policies and business risk appetite.
- Keep more senior team members and other stakeholders updated and briefed on projects and risk management concerns on a regular basis.
- Assist the legal team in promoting knowledge sharing and collaboration within the Legal Affairs team and across markets to leverage learnings and drive synergy benefits.
- Commercial agreements and M&A support: Assist with drafting agreements and provide support in relation to a variety of commercial agreements and M&A matters.
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- Telecommunications sector work experience (Advantageous).
- Fluency in English is mandatory.
- 0–2 years post-qualification or relevant legal experience, ideally with exposure to competition law, regulatory law, telecommunications, technology, digital markets, mergers & acquisitions and/or commercial advisory work.
- LLB degree (or equivalent legal qualification).
- Admitted attorney (or in the process of admission).
- 0–2 years post-qualification experience.
- Coursework, postgraduate study, articles experience, internship exposure or practical experience in competition/ regulatory law will be advantageous.
Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:
- Foundational understanding of South African law of contracts and/or mercantile law. (Essential)
- Foundational knowledge of South African competition law, with exposure to competition law in a law firm, competition authority, in-house legal team or academic/practical training environment. (Essential)
- Basic understanding of the South African telecommunications regulatory regime. (Advantageous)
- Excellent legal research, speaking, reading and writing skills. (Essential)
- Self-starter, solution oriented and problem solver.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a pragmatic approach to resolving issues.
- Excellent drafting and communication abilities with attention to detail.
- Clear and professional verbal and written communication skills.
- Commercially minded, with an interest in the telecommunications landscape.
- Highly organised, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities.
- Integrity, discretion, ethical judgment and a proactive learning mindset.
- Collaborative and adaptable in a dynamic environment.
- Manages multiple priorities and meets deadlines under pressure.
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 August 2026.
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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- To support the delivery and ongoing improvement of digital and technology capabilities within Vodacom’s National Property and Facilities function, using data, systems and process improvements to enhance corporate real estate operations, workplace services and portfolio visibility.
- This role supports the development, maintenance and continuous improvement of the CRE digital ecosystem, helping ensure that technology solutions improve reporting, operational efficiency, service delivery and user experience across the property lifecycle.
- The role works with Vodacom Business, Information Technology, Digital AI Engineering and external service partners to gather requirements, support solution improvements, coordinate implementation activities and assist with the effective use of property technology platforms, data and analytics.
- The Senior Specialist: CRE - Digital and Technology Services role supports the use of digital capabilities, data assets, infrastructure information and technology-enabled processes to improve decision support, reporting accuracy and colleague experiences across the real estate lifecycle.
- The role provides functional support for technologies used in facilities management, engineering, capital projects, workplace experience, portfolio management, sustainability, parking and mobility, smart buildings, Archibus, Building Management Systems, IoT, ESG reporting and related real estate systems.
- The Senior Specialist: CRE Digital and Technology Services acts as the key driver of digital product vision, data-as-a-product maturity and operational change enablement, ensuring that the National Property and Facilities function extracts maximum value from its real estate technology ecosystem.
Key Accountabilities and Portfolio Management:
Digital Strategy and Business Transformation
- Develop and maintain the CRE Digital & Technology solutions, architecture and roadmap for the National Property and Facilities portfolio ensuring alignment with business strategy, operational requirements and enterprise technology standards.
- Support the National Property and Facilities Digital Strategy aligned to Vodacom’s business strategy and Vision 2030.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, automate and modernize business processes through digital innovation.
- Drive business adoption of digital technologies that improve productivity, customer experience and operational efficiency.
- Ensure all digital initiatives deliver measurable business outcomes and return on investment.
- Drive benefits realization, ensuring that digital investments deliver improvements in cost-to-serve, asset lifecycle, utilisation, sustainability, and vendor performance.
National Property and Facilities Technology
- Act as the business owner for digital products used across National Property and Facilities (workplace tools, space analytics, asset insights, ESG reporting dashboards, portfolio visualization).
- Define business requirements and prioritise technology investments in collaboration with IT and Digital teams.
- Ensure technology platforms remain fit for purpose, scalable and aligned to future business requirements.
- Ensure all digital initiatives deliver measurable business outcomes and return on investment.
- Prioritize features based on business value and partnership with other Vodacom business units for delivering sequencing and roadmap alignment.
Data, Analytics and Business Intelligence
- Own the business definition of data products for Portfolio, Asset, Space, Vendor, and ESG domains.
- Establish a data-driven operating model across National Property and Facilities.
- Manage development of executive dashboards, portfolio analytics and predictive insights supporting strategic decision-making.
- Drive governance of property, asset, vendor and sustainability data to improve data quality, transparency and reporting.
- Enable evidence-based decisions relating to portfolio optimisation, asset performance, workplace utilisation and supplier performance.
- Define business semantics, KPIs, success measures, and data quality expectations.
Business Insights, Analytics & Decision Support
- Support the development of executive insights, dashboards, and performance packs that enable strategic decision making.
Build scenario models and analytics that support:
- Real estate optimisation
- Space utilisation intelligence
- Cost-to-serve analysis
- Asset lifecycle performance
- Vendor performance and SLA adherence
- ESG sustainability insights
Stakeholder Engagement, Governance and Change Enablement
- Support digital adoption and change enablement across CRE, ensuring new tools and processes are embedded effectively.
- Implement digital change management across National Property and Facilities.
- Build strong partnerships with Business, Technology, Finance, Procurement, Sustainability and Human Resources.
- Promote adoption of digital capabilities through communication, training and business engagement.
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Establish governance frameworks for property technology vendors and managed service providers.
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- A 3-4 year degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Real Estate, Property Management, Engineering - essential.
- Minimum of 5-8 years experience in Infrastructure Management, Corporate Real Estate Facilities Management, Digital Transformation or Property Technology.
- Strong experience with CAFM / IWMS platforms (such as Archibus), Smart Buildings, IoT and workplace technologies.
- Experience in data analytics, business intelligence and executive reporting.
- Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams and manage vendor relationships.
Key accountabilities and decision ownership:
Technical:
- Real Estate Technology
- Smart Buildings & IOT
- Operational Technology
- Physical Security Technology
- Data Architecture
- Digital Workplace Solutions
- Building Systems Integration
- User experience awareness
Management:
- Strategic Thinking
- Customer Obsession
- Digital Innovation
- Commercial Acumen
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Influencing and Stakeholder Management
- Change Leadership
- Collaboration
- Results Orientation
- Continuous Improvement
Preferred Experience:
- Real estate portfolio analytics.
- Workplace or facilities management data and reporting.
- Data governance or data product management.
- Exposure to CAFM / IWMS systems and IoT/ESG data environments (business-side experience, not technical design).
- Experience leading change and adoption in large organisations.
- Experience working with outsourced service providers.
- Strong background in business analysis, product ownership and digital strategy in complex environments.
- Exposure to digital transformation and data-driven decision-making.
- Experience must include developing integrated customer-centric technology workplace product or service solutions while working with and managing stakeholders across and / or functional areas and budget 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: 24 August 2026.
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