Executive Head: Group Products and Platforms

2 days ago

Midrand, South Africa Vodafone Full time

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**Role Purpose**:
The Executive Head of Enterprise Products will be at the vanguard of the company's transition from traditional telecommunications products to cutting-edge ICT value propositions across 8 diverse African markets. This group role emphasizes the formulation and oversight of a long-term product/solution vision (3-5 years), collaborating with operating companies across different regions for execution. Balancing expertise in fixed and cloud technologies with an understanding of Africa's unique market dynamics is paramount, as well as sustaining and growing core telco revenue lines that are still essential for the group. Equally critical is the establishment and nurturing of strategic partnerships and alliances to design, develop, and market products and services with unparalleled scale and capillarity.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Innovative Leadership Role: You will lead the company's product transition from traditional telecommunications to cutting-edge ICT across diverse African markets. You will shape the future of the company's product and solution vision over the next 3-5 years
- Strategic Influence: You will influence and motivate markets to develop solutions, build compelling business cases, and unlock budgets. This role showcases your strategic impact

**Key Accountabilities and Decision Ownership**:

- Long-term Enterprise Product Vision & Regional Collaboration: Co-create a 3-5 year product vision and work closely with operating companies in various regions to align and execute this vision, ensuring tailored strategies based on unique local needs, while still maintaining a shared group vision.
- Technological Leadership & Mastery: Stay updated on mobile and fixed technology evolution (like FWA and LEO satellite), and ensure the integration of cloud solutions, cybersecurity, software-defined networking, IoT, and managed services into the product roadmap in a value-enhancing way to the operating companies.
- Stakeholder Management & Team Leadership: Engage a diverse array of stakeholders across different cultures, emphasizing teamwork, knowledge sharing, and close collaboration with local teams, while cultivating a culture of innovation, fostering expertise, and facilitating continuous learning programs with relentless focus on the customer.
- Performance Management: Establish and review metrics that measure the success of the product and partnership vision across regions, ensuring alignment with the group's overarching objectives.
- Matric - Essential
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree - Essential
- An MBA or other master’s level post-graduate studies - Advantageous
- A minimum of 8-10 years proven track record in Telecommunications, ICT, consulting or product management with a minimum of 5 years’ management/supervisory experience - Essential

**Core Competencies, Knowledge, and Experience**:

- Thorough understanding of new product development methodologies, processes, and best practices, including but not limited to product lifecycle management and the ability to develop value cases to support the product development roadmap in multiple territories.
- Good understanding of fundamentals of product propositions including but not limited to demand creation, segmentation, market mix, positioning, targeting, and customer value management.
- Good general management capabilities with high proficiency in PPT, Word, and Excel, and experience leading high-impact teams.
- Good understanding of key products, and those of the hyperscalers and adjacent digital technology companies.
- A natural networker, adept at establishing and cultivating relationships that align with the company's vision and objectives.
- Experience in operating in group and operating company environments within technology and communication companies would be beneficial.
- Strong technical and commercial understanding and experience of mobile, fixed, and platform-based products and services.

Closing date for Applications**:29 January 2025.**

The base location for this role is **Midrand, Vodacom Campus.**

The company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates, and values diversity & inclusion.

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