**Role Purpose**:
As Demand Assurance Manager in Italy Network Governance and Demand Team, you will have the opportunity to lead medium-large scale projects, manage demands from the Vodafone Business Italy department and actively participate to the VBI SQUAD of Unified Communication Collaboration & Smart Workplace.
You will support VBI department in building and defining the Vodafone Business products and services from the idea to the Solution architecture and technical feasibility.
The Demand Assurance Manager in particular is aimed to collect, triage and coordinate the in-country demands for Network.
You will be Accountable for the triage and for the completion of impact assessment from the NW Vertical teams.
Finally, you will be Responsible for submission and representation at the Demand Approval Board for the GO/NO GO
**Key accountabilities**:
- Accountable to perform initial triage of demand and engagement with requestor by category
- Engagement with NW BEM to further shape the scope/actors for the most strategic initiatives
- Accountable to Engage NW Vertical Teams for starting the high level impact assessment
- Interlock opportunities and improvements of Networks Engagement
- Accountable to coordinate and complete High-Level Design and Feasibility from all Network Verticals
- Responsible for Representation of all Demands on Weekly Focus Call with requestors and NW Vertical SPOC
- Accountable for timely production and distribution of Demand Board Agenda
- Clear requests presented to enable successful decision making
- Accountable for requestor stakeholder presence for the presentation to Demand Board
- Responsible for Demand Board actions and decisions
- Accountable for demands approved and associated actions post Demand Board
- Minutes and actions tracked
- Accountable to ensure funding and cross charging actions are concluded
- Accountable for Networks representation at Local Governance (e.g.. EDRA Board) for enterprise opportunities
- Representation for Networks costing for enterprise tiered deals
- Responsible for communicating down selection and subsequently won or lost opportunities
- Support the Concept definition for the Business UCC and Smart Workplace Products & Services
- Ensure effective interlock with Digital and IT department
**Core competencies, knowledge and experience**:
- Strong knowledge of mobile and fixed Network architecture
- Strong Project management skills and experience
- Strong ability in negotiation and interpersonal relationship.
- Good Knowledge of Agile methodology
- Good skill in business/technical writing
- Excellent organizational, presentation and analytics skills
- Strong ability in influencing and problem solving under pressure from both customers and internal stakeholders, to ensure solution designs are deliverable
- Strong knowledge of Business Product and services and specifically of Voice and Unified Communication products.
- Strong motivation in steadily improving and learning
- Strong knowledge of provisioning processes and Telco systems Architecture
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent.
- Excellent mastery of the MS Office suite (Excel, Project, Word, Powerpoint)
**Education**:
- Relevant higher education in the Engineering field, preferably on Telco;
- Fluent in English.