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A high-impact and influential role in the Vodafone Business Group Products and Services team. The product economics manager has a crucial part to play in our strategy to drive significant growth in revenue and margin, across our global product portfolios. Working across product lines and markets, you will build and share detailed understanding of product economics and identify opportunities to improve commercial performance. You will also design, create, and maintain a toolkit to enable Vodafone business products and services to be scaled across markets quickly, efficiently and with maximum commercial impact.
Job Responsibility:
Engage with local markets (OpCo’s), product teams, technology, operations, and commercial strategy to support and influence the commercial design for products throughout the lifecycle
Building and maintaining product cost models
Identifying and documenting cost owners
Understanding supplier contracts and business rules which have an impact on our cost base and product economics and identify opportunities to leverage
Visualising cost components and the levers driving changes in both cost and price
Providing requirements into market benchmarking and customer research to ensure it is actionable commercially and analyse outputs
Conducting cost benchmarking analysis across products and vendors
Providing guidance and consultancy particularly on cost
Build deep commercial product expertise including knowledge of suppliers, commercial terms, competitors, market trends, and technology
Undertake regular analysis of unit and product economics
Provide economic insight to key stakeholders across central and local market teams
Highlight material cost changes and implications
Make recommendations to maximise profitability
Assess the product economics of scaling and sunsetting
Identify opportunities to standardise, drive commercial innovation, and create efficiencies both within and across product lines
Leverage insights from OpCos and external sources to drive best practice
Create and maintain a toolkit to be used by the central and local market teams eg a structured cost catalogue, unit costs, cost guardrails
Requirements:
Educated to degree level in Business Management or other quantitative discipline (e.g. Maths, Economics, Engineering)
Outstanding Microsoft Excel skills
Knowledge of telecoms products
Strong commercial modelling and analysis skills
Excellent communication and stakeholder management
Ability to make complex information simple
A tenacious, self-starter who is confident working with cross functional, virtual teams in a global environment
Experience in a Commercial, Pricing or Finance role, involving complex ICT or Telco solutions and ideally in a B2B environment