Role Purpose:

• Own Radio Budget Planning and Actualization process.
• Radio Vendors Management. 
• Support in setting Radio Technical Strategy.
• Manage PO issuance and follow up on Delivery.

Key Accountabilities & Decision Ownership:

Technical Management:

• Deliver Capex/ Opex DB/LRP while ensuring financial targets, efficient use of resources, and managing priorities when required by financial challenges
• Variance analysis to validate business assumptions and provide hands-on advice to senior management. 
• Carry out any special studies, analysis and business cases for investment decisions.
• Business processes analysis, enhancement, automation and digital transformation.
• Manage vendors and make deals to achieve business requirements.
• Provide saving initiatives across radio domain. 
• Drive quarterly\monthly budget reviews and focus on efficiency opportunities and delivery.
• Represent Radio in all budget/financial activities across Technology and Vodafone Group
• Manage and Identify risks and provide tactical advice to management and stakeholders to achieve short and long-term strategy
• Ability to negotiate on difficult and sensitive issues
• Ability to prioritize own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others where required.
• Ability to provide, receive, and process highly complex and sensitive information.

Reporting:

• Regular reporting on projects cost variances, payments against budgets, commitments, and forecast.

Communication / Interfaces:

• Interface with different departments within the Company.
• Attend relevant meetings with senior management and Vodafone Group.

Core Competencies, Knowledge and Experience:

Putting customer first:

• Responsive.
• Communicates clearly. 
• Takes personal responsibility.

Performing through our people:

• Gets the right resources and manages team.
• Communicates to support team effectiveness and keeps people informed.
• Cooperates and speaks positively about the team and promote team effectiveness.
• Delegates challenging work and encourages others.
• Works to build commitment.
• Understands emotion and verbal content.
• Directs people, sets limit and sticks to performance standards and takes actions to address performance when necessary.

Delivering Results:

• Wants to do job well and creates own measures of excellence.
• Helps others to concentrate on priorities and improves performance.
• Reacts to short-term opportunities.
• Takes account of financial impact of actions.
• Is sensitive in a time-sensitive situation.

Managing a changing environment:

• Accepts the need for flexibility and applies rules flexibly.
• Takes a long-term perspective.
• Identifies problem and sees basic relationships and patterns. 

Making a personal difference:

• Acts confidently within job role.
• Willing to learn and take action to improve himself.
• Acts according to basic values and openness and honesty.

Technical / Professional Expertise:

• Education: Engineering or Accounting or Economics Degree from a reputable university.
• PC Knowledge:  Experience of MS Office (Excel, Word, Power Point, MS Access).
• Technical skills: Good knowledge of mobile industry preferably in radio. Excellent financial acumen.
• Personal skills: Excellent communication and negotiation skills, Good command of English language, Ability to work independently and under pressure. A strong yet diplomatic personality, analytical and creative thinking. Well organized, co-operative and able to meet changing work conditions and peak workloads.