Ndc Demand and Logistics Manage - Newbury, United Kingdom - Vodafone

Vodafone

Verified Company

Newbury, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location:
Newbury/Hybrid

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.

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

Forecasted Demand 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 "90day 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.

What will you be doing?
To deliver the outcomes, the role has the following responsibilities:

Management of supplier relationships and deliverable of materials against programme requirements
Interface with internal programmes on demand forecasts and trend analysis
Management of stock utilisation and driving down overall stock holding.
Accountable and responsible for managing the lifecycle of hardware including but not limited to forward and reverse logistics.
Responsible for being interface between vendors and internal customers
Accountable and responsible for reviewing service performance reports and highlighting any substandard performance to the wider team.
Responsible for initiating Service Improvement Plans and managing the SIP process and reviewing SIPs.
Responsible for identifying risks to Vodafone and providing suggested mitigations.

Who are we looking for?

A knowledge of the development and management of logistics and asset management within the telecoms sector
Strong understanding of the UK telecoms and logistics ecosystem, including the factors that constrain, enable and enhance its capability.
Experience of managing relationships with internal business customers and large external suppliers, by the development of relationships to ensure the mutual business needs are met.
Significant experience of managing complex logistics and asset management operations safely to agreed time, cost and quality targets.
Proven to take full accountability for planning and delivering viable options to the business.
Experience of the methodologies, processes and capabilities required to deliver warehousing and distribution solutions using suppliers, 3rd parties and retained teams.
A cando 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
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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.

Job Responsibility:

Drives the delivery and smooth rollout of building or upgrading sites and projects that improve cost effectiveness and quality standards;
Has full people supervisory responsibility for a team of Network Deployment professionals who implement and deploy network equipment, services and infrastructure as