Location: Local Office/Home
Salary: Competitive
Hours: 37.5

You will support the alignment of Vodafone’s Network Hardware Strategy and Deliverables, building relationships with vendors and internal stakeholders, providing a key point of contact for direct partners. Manage hardware availability against the agreed SCM contractual obligations, SLAs and KPIs ensuring programmes are supported with forecasted hardware requirements deployed on the Radio Access Network. This role will proactively manage hardware demand and associated logistics on behalf of Network Deployment and Connectivity and continuously support the improvement of NDC strategies, systems, processes, controls and capabilities required to achieve timely hardware availability and governance control points.

What will you be doing?

This role requires the Demand Planner to support the UK Networks Demand and Delivery Assurance Manager to deliver the Operational outcomes of:-

• Hardware Demand forecasts and procurement of hardware against project deliverables.
• Management of supplier relationships, delivery of materials against programme requirements and influencing of external vendors
• Management of Inventory within Partner warehouses and ensure compliancy against the “90-day rule”
• Responsible to drive down overall stock within Network Inventory
• Effectively manage assigned suppliers through governance forums.
• Asset control of materials against programme demands and alignment to budget demands.

To deliver the outcomes, the role has the following responsibilities:

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  Management of stakeholder relationships and deliverable of materials against programme requirements
• Interface with internal programmes on demand forecast and trend analysis
• Management of stock utilisation and driving down overall stock holding.
• Responsible for managing the lifecycle of hardware including but not limited to forward and reverse logistics.
• Responsible for being the interface between vendors and internal customers
• Responsible for identifying risks to Vodafone and providing suggested mitigations.

Who are we looking for?

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  A knowledge of the development and management of logistics and asset management within the telecoms sector • Strong understanding of the UK telecoms and logistics eco-system, including the factors that constrain, enable and enhance its capability.
• Experience of managing relationships with internal business customers and external suppliers, by the development of relationships to ensure the mutual business needs are met.
• Proven to take full accountability for planning and delivering viable options
• Experience of the methodologies, processes and capabilities required to deliver warehousing and distribution solutions using suppliers, 3rd parties and retained teams.
• A can-do attitude and be able to start and complete assigned tasks in isolation and or within a team environment.

What’s in it for you?

An excellent remuneration and bonus package with 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive and flexible benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family. We’re proud to provide a Reconnect programme with flexibility for individuals returning to work after a career break. From our market-leading parental leave policies through to employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes we are committed to supporting you throughout your career with Vodafone.

Together we can

Vodafone UK 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 the regulators standards.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website (careers.vodafone.co.uk) under Career Support, for guidance.

Blended

Vodafone UK’s blended working approach means you’ll come to your contracted hub location office as and when needed to get things done for your role and for tasks that require it, otherwise you will be able to work from home. Our ‘Office in a Box’ home-working kit will be available for all who need it during your onboarding journey.

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.