VodafoneThree – Exchange & Network Delivery Lead

Location, Salary, Working Hours

Location: Field Based Role – UK Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits Working hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday

What you’ll do

• Own end‑to‑end technical delivery of complex network work packages, from mobilisation through to acceptance and handover.
• Service‑manage external delivery partners (onshore and offshore), setting, monitoring and enforcing SLAs, KPIs and OLAs to ensure predictable, high‑quality outcomes.
• Act as the primary technical delivery authority and escalation point for assigned programmes, resolving delivery risks, dependencies, and cross‑functional conflicts.
• Matrix‑manage internal resources across planning, build, operations, and commercial teams to align priorities and remove delivery blockers.
• Govern delivery through structured reporting, RAID management, milestone tracking, and service reviews with internal stakeholders and partners.
• Assure delivered solutions meet technical standards, architectural intent, safety, and quality requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement in delivery performance, partner effectiveness, and service management disciplines.
• Represent technical delivery in programme, portfolio and governance forums, providing clear status, risk, and decision recommendations.

Who you are

• Experience in telecommunications network delivery/engineering roles with strong Transmission/Optical/IP/Fibre exposure.
• Proven experience managing externally delivered work packages using formal service management and governance frameworks.
• Strong understanding of end‑to‑end network delivery lifecycle, including design assurance, build, test, acceptance and handover.
• Deep expertise in fibre, transmission, access network & associated network infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to lead delivery without line management, influencing senior stakeholders, partners, and matrix teams.
• Experience owning delivery performance, risk, and issue resolution across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Comfortable operating at pace in a commercially constrained, outcome‑driven environment.
• Excellent stakeholder, communication, and escalation‑management skills.

What we offer

We care about our people’s success by offering great pay, bonuses, up to 28 days off plus bank holidays, paid time for charity work, a pension plan, discounts and vouchers. We support career development with learning tools and parental leave policies.

Additional Information

We are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet regulatory standards.

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