* Accountable for defining and leading the programme/project, cutting across multiple channels, products, systems and departments, to time, budget, and scope from initiation through to completion;
* Responsible for overall integrity and coherence of the programme/project and executing the programme/project vision, mapping all initiatives and taking accountability for all dependencies and alignment;
* Runs a high performing, collaborative, delivery team, who may be directly managed or matrix managed;
* Drives the delivery of the programme/project through active management ensuring milestones are met to time, cost and quality;
* Defines release readiness requirements against business outcome needs and validates readiness before release into production;
* Ensures overall integrity of the project and compliance to Standards;
* Monitors performance across programmes in the portfolio to enable tracking of the strategy execution;
* Uses best practice knowledge to generate analytics and maintain a common set of practices, principles and templates for managing, anticipating and exceeding the needs of the business;
* Possesses understanding of frameworks (e.g. Waterfall/Agile) and methodologies (e.g. Prince2);
* Demonstrates strong communication skills, coordinates project stakeholders and may also act as lead representative in key governance and decision meetings;
* Maintains strong relations and works closely with stakeholders across Vodafone and external partners in order to ensure alignment with the broader commercial objectives of the business.