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The Senior Service Readiness & Improvement Manager is a strategic leadership role accountable for ensuring customer-facing operations are fully prepared to adopt and deliver large-scale change. This role sits at the heart of customer improvement & transformation, bridging enterprise-level strategy—such as new technology, AI enablement, and operating model redesign, pairing with actionable insights (sentiment and operational metrics), with the practical realities of frontline execution. The role is responsible for embedding customer-centricity into operational change, ensuring that new processes, tools, and ways of working are implemented safely, consistently, and at pace. Working cross-functionally across Product, Delivery, Operations, and Change/Digital teams, the role drives sustainable improvement in both customer outcomes and operational performance within a complex, high-volume UK telecoms environment.
Job Responsibility:
Accountable for ensuring customer-facing operations are fully prepared to adopt and deliver large-scale change
Bridging enterprise-level strategy with the practical realities of frontline execution
Embedding customer-centricity into operational change
Working cross-functionally across Product, Delivery, Operations, and Change/Digital teams
Driving sustainable improvement in both customer outcomes and operational performance
Leading a large and complex portfolio of change impacting the Vodafone Business Service Estate
Prioritizing and executing large scale transformation across Moments that Matter to Customers
Measuring impacts through benefits realization
Driving through leadership across the Strategic CX Transformation roadmap
Becoming the CX empowered signoff across multiple governance gates
Requirements:
Extensive experience in operations management, transformation, or programme delivery roles, ideally within a large, complex organisation
Proven track record of leading large teams (15+ direct reports) and managing multi-million-pound improvement / transformation programmes
Deep understanding of operational readiness, GTM processes, and board-level governance
Strong commercial acumen and experience building business cases for senior approval
Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with experience engaging at board and executive level
Expertise in project and programme management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Prince2, MSP)
Demonstrated ability to drive cultural change and embed continuous improvement
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
Experience in the telecoms or technology sector is highly desirable
Degree level qualified
MBA desirable
What we offer:
Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits