Global Product Manager London, England
Vodafone
Full Time
London, England
58000 - 77938 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Role Title: Global Product Manager
Location: London, Paddington
Role Purpose...
Vodafone Security is a rapidly evolving strategic function, that is putting security at the forefront of the Vodafone Business value proposition. In joining the team, you will become a founding member of this exciting function, responsible for developing both the strategic and technology vision, alongside the business model and commercial success of the emerging security portfolio.
Vodafone Business has a vision to bring enterprise-grade cybersecurity, along with access to leading cyber talent and expertise, to organisations that do not have the experience, time, or resources to keep up with the rapidly evolving threat landscape. Vodafone Business Security portfolio is responsible for cybersecurity products and strategy across the entire Vodafone Business footprint across the globe.
As a Global Product Manager, you will be responsible for developing, refining, and executing security products, to support the growth of the global portfolio and the enablement of our sales channels in order to achieve the Vodafone Security strategic goals. You will have a deep knowledge of cybersecurity products, trends and in particular customer buying behaviour.
As a member of the team, you will have particular ownership for a product(s) or service area(s), as part of the wider security portfolio that will deliver comprehensive managed and professional security services to help businesses to assess, protect, detect, respond and recover from a cyberattack including:
- Cyber assessment services that will start the customer journey – to include employee awareness, cyber resilience and vulnerability diagnostics.
- Managed security services include monitoring, incident management and response that will be easy to use, deploy and grow with a business – removing complexity at every stage.
- Professional services focused on risk assessment, testing and testing employee awareness of phishing attacks.
- Joint investment in an innovation lab focused on security solutions and intelligence for workplace, cloud, IoT and SD-WAN environments.
- A simple and seamless experience including onboarding, delivery, and service management, streamlining the time it takes to deploy and protect a business.
- Experience of Information/Cyber Security market with general understanding of customer solutions
- Good commercial understanding with ability to judge value of investments and commercial returns for Vodafone and our customers
- Ability to communicate complex information and concepts in simple, compelling ways
- Demonstrable ability to lead, co-ordinate and influence teams in a matrix organisation – direct, virtual and supplier –in delivering required tasks.
- Comfortable in presenting to a wide range of audiences, from C-level, Sales Teams through to analyst communities and technically aware teams
- Experience of working in roles requiring clear thinking under tight timelines
- Experience of working in matrix organisations, delivering proven results
With us you will...
- Driving product strategy (~3-year horizon) in line with global business and commercial priorities
- Complete ownership and accountability for the Product, business commercials, P&L, and revenue growth roadmap
- Capture and translate global customer needs into clear product capabilities and features or to optimize existing products
- Focus on ‘total product design’ to ensure all E2E requirements are captured including quality, safety, regulatory and sustainability
- Create and maintain global product roadmap, ensuring alignment with Local Product Managers securing all required resources for launch
- Working with GPB where necessary to ensure visibility and alignment of global product roadmaps & to secure funding for new product creation/ product enhancements
- Overseeing the agile product development phase to ensure necessary governance, funding and key deliverables are achieved on time and to quality, working with their respective Technology Product Lead
- Acts as ‘chief publicist’ for their product to ensure all Local Market Readiness and launch requirements are consistent, scalable, and aligned through Local Product Managers and relevant teams (incl. marketing, commercial, sales etc.).
- Identifying/working with product partners and determining how they will support the creation of new products
- Owns product pricing strategy & reference pricing, establishing suitable product differentiation, value-add & execution strategies to underpin product’s success
- Manage all in-life and end-of-life requirements to optimize global product performance, capability and
- Ensures alignment with SAFe framework and methodology for all steps of the PLCM process
It would be nice if you have...
- Good understanding and experience in key security product technologies (e.g., FWaaS, SWG, ZTNA, CASB, SIEM, MDR, UEM, UES, IdAM etc)
- Natural ability to lead on behalf of their product on a global scale
- Drives senior functional stakeholders to align with their product strategy and requirements. Highly proficient at managing global strategy and commercial requirements for a global product/s
- Requires ability to manage P&L and commercials globally for their product
- Ability to work in collaboration with other portfolio especially Connectivity and Cloud products to create multi portfolio capabilities with embedded services
- Ability to guide delivery teams to design and simplify complex service architectures spanning across customer journeys of sales, delivery, in-life management, and maintenance
- Graduate, with minimum of a bachelor’s degree
- 5+ yrs of experience in Security Products, Management, Delivery, Operations, or consultancy (e.g., FWaaS, SWG, ZTNA, CASB, SIEM, MDR, UEM, UES, IdAM etc)
- Security certification (preferred) – CISSP, CISM etc
- Demonstrable experience of successful complex projects and programmes to meet business expectations and deliver results
- Strong organisational skills and time management
- Strong cross-functional working capabilities
- Excellent reporting and analytical skills
What's in it for you...
- 28 days holiday (with the option to buy or sell 5 days) plus public holidays
- Hybrid working
- Pension matching scheme of up to 10%
- 5 paid days leave for charity projects
- Vodafone family and friends discount
- Interest free commuter loan
- Global parental leave policy for all new parents which includes 39 paid weeks of maternity leave and 16 weeks fully paid leave and upon returning to work, new parents can work part-time hours for 6 months whilst being paid their full-time salary
- Access to Vodafone University and LinkedIn Learning
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Vodafone
https://careers.vodafone.com/uk/
Newbury, United Kingdom
Margherita della Valle
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Telecommunications Services
1984
