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With our strategic partner Accenture, we work alongside our Vodafone customers, other Telco and tech companies to drive transformation, meet the challenges of our industry and ensure we stay relevant and resilient. This partnership is a unique, industry-first model which brings together the best of in-house and 3rd party capability.\nWe work with customers across 28 countries from 10 VOIS locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, Spain, Turkey, UK, Germany, Ireland, and with a network of teams in Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, and Portugal.\n#VOIS #BeUnrivalled #CreateTheFuture\nAbout this Role\nLocation: Paddington or Newbury (Hybrid)\nWe design, build and operate the digital and IT capabilities that power Vodafone’s next-generation products and services. We provide the engineering foundations, reusable platform capabilities, APIs, integrations and secure digital services that enable rapid, scalable delivery across customer journeys, propositions and markets.\nJoining us means contributing to the platforms, engineering practices and technology capabilities that underpin Vodafone’s future growth. Our delivery teams work across product, engineering, architecture, network, security, operations and supplier partners to turn complex transformation outcomes into executable plans and controlled releases.\nThe Delivery Manager is responsible for managing delivery across integration, testing and migration activities required to enable the successful adoption of new platform capabilities, services and customer traffic into the strategic Digital & IT platform estate. The role provides day-to-day delivery leadership across multiple cross-functional teams, ensuring milestones, dependencies, risks, environments and readiness activities are actively managed through to production implementation.\nThe role is expected to manage complex delivery dependencies across Digital & IT, Core Network, product and third-party suppliers. It ensures that integration scope is understood, testing is planned and executed, migration activities are governed, and service readiness is achieved before cutover.\nWorking closely with Product Owners, Architects, Engineering Leads, QA Leads, Service Design, Operations, Network Teams and delivery partners, the Delivery Manager brings structure, pace and clarity to delivery, ensuring dependencies, risks and milestones are effectively managed from inception through to production readiness. The role translates strategic and delivery objectives into actionable plans, drives issue resolution, and supports leadership decision-making through clear reporting, governance and escalation.\nGiven the responsibilities outlined above, the role includes:\nTracking delivery of development workstreams across Digital & IT, Network and third-party domains.\nCoordinating integration activities across platforms, products, partners, suppliers and technology domains.\nManaging test planning and execution across SIT, Operational readiness and Deployment Verification Testing.\nDriving migration planning, rehearsal, cutover, rollback and post-implementation readiness activities.\nMaintaining integrated plans, RAID logs, milestone views, dependency trackers and governance reporting.\nWhat you’ll do\nMaintain integrated delivery plans for platform integration, testing and migration activities.\nCoordinate cross-domain activities across Digital & IT, Core Network, OSS/BSS, product, engineering, operations and supplier teams.\nDrive delivery of technical integrations, including connectivity dependencies, environments and test data requirements.\nManage program-level testing activity, including SIT, integration testing, E2E validation, operational readiness testing, defect triage and release readiness evidence.\nLead migration planning activities, including migration sequencing, rehearsals, cutover planning, rollback preparation, hyper care and post-implementation review.\nProvide clear, concise and leadership-ready delivery reporting on progress, blockers, quality, readiness and key decisions.\nEscalate delivery risks in a timely manner and drive recovery actions with accountable owners.\nEnsure migration and release entry and exit criteria are understood, agreed and evidenced before key decision gates\nSupport supplier and partner delivery management, ensuring commitments are tracked and aligned to program outcomes. \nDelivery Management - Ability to turn complex program outcomes into actionable plans, milestones and governed delivery execution.\nIntegration Delivery - Experience coordinating technical integrations across platforms, APIs, channels, network systems and third-party services.\nMigration & Cutover Management - Experience of managing migrations, rehearsals, cutover, rollback and post-release stabilisation.\nDependency & Risk Management - Strong capability to identify/track cross-team dependencies, delivery risks and blockers, then drive practical resolution.\nGovernance & Reporting - Ability to maintain accurate plans, RAID logs, status reporting and decision materials for program governance.\nVendor Management - Experience coordinating with external delivery partners, ensuring alignment to timelines, quality standards, and Vodafone engineering and delivery practices.\nWho you are\n5+ years’ experience in delivery management, programme delivery, technology delivery or complex change delivery.\nProven experience managing integration, testing or migration activities across complex technology landscapes.\nExperience working in agile, hybrid or scaled delivery environments with engineering, product and platform teams.\nStrong knowledge of RAID management, dependency management, delivery planning and governance reporting.\nExperience coordinating test phases, defect triage, release readiness and production implementation activities.\nExperience managing suppliers, partners or cross-functional delivery teams.\nStrong communication, facilitation and stakeholder management skills.\nExperience using delivery tooling such as Jira, Confluence, Teams, SharePoint and Microsoft 365.\nDelivery qualification or equivalent experience, for example PRINCE2, Agile, SAFe, Scrum Master or equivalent practical delivery background.\nNot a perfect fit?\nConcerned you may not meet every requirement? Vodafone is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. If you are excited about this role but your experience does not align exactly with every aspect of the job description, you are encouraged to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or another opportunity, and the recruitment team will support you in exploring where your skills fit best.\nWhat's in it for you\nThe opportunity to contribute to the digital platforms and technology capabilities supporting Vodafone’s future products, services and customer journeys.\nExposure to complex, cross-functional delivery involving Digital & IT, Network, Product, Engineering, Quality Assurance, Operations and external partners.\nThe opportunity to influence the safe adoption of new platform capabilities and services across a large-scale technology environment.\nExperience working on high-impact integration, migration, service-readiness and production implementation initiatives.\nThe ability to build strong professional relationships with technical specialists, delivery partners and senior stakeholders.\nA role in which disciplined planning and proactive risk management can directly improve delivery predictability, customer experience and operational stability\nWhat skills you will learn\nAdvanced planning and coordination across complex technology delivery landscapes.\nPlatform integration and dependency management across APIs, channels, network systems and third-party services.\nEnd-to-end testing governance, defect triage and release-readiness assessment.\nMigration sequencing, rehearsal design, cutover governance, rollback planning and post-release stabilisation.Leadership-level reporting, programme governance and evidence-based decision support.\nSupplier and partner coordination across shared delivery outcomes.\nPractical risk recovery and issue-resolution techniques in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.\nCross-functional stakeholder alignment across product, architecture, engineering, operations, networks and quality assurance\nVOIS Equal Opportunity Employer Commitment\nVodafone recognises and celebrates the value of diversity in building a workforce that reflects the customers and communities it serves. 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Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.\nWith us, you can truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.\nAlert\nApply for Vodafone jobs only through the official Vodafone Careers website to avoid job scams and fraud.\nFollow us on social media\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vois/\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/voisglobal\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/voisglobal/","description_format":"text","description_chars":10318,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-24T18:41:03Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-03T18:32:10Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":null,"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/vodacom-mozambique-delivery-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/vodacom-mozambique-delivery-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-18T15:16:00Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":21266,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-19T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":177523},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=177523"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fvodacom-mozambique-delivery-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fvodacom-mozambique-delivery-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fvodacom-mozambique-delivery-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/vodacom-mozambique-delivery-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fvodacom-mozambique-delivery-manager"}]}