HR Transformation Programme Lead

**Join Us**:
At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers - we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

**What you’ll do**:
The HR Transformation Programme Lead will spearhead the end-to-end delivery of the VOIS HR Reimagined programme, ensuring seamless coordination across strategic workstreams and initiatives. This role is pivotal in driving the transformation of HR into a proactive, insight-led enabler of VOIS’s commercial growth.

You will be responsible for orchestrating programme planning, execution, and change and comms management, ensuring alignment with the business vision and measurable outcomes / KPIs. You will partner and support the Senior Transformation to deliver the vision and programme outcomes. This will include close working with workstream leads (VOIS HR LT), delivery squads across Centres of Excellence, Operations, and HR Services, to drive cross-functional collaboration and delivery of scalable, data-driven people solutions that unlock performance, optimise cost, and elevate the employee experience.

As a visible transformation leader, you will:

- Champion agile ways of working and foster a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement.
- Drive strategic change, communications and stakeholder engagement across the Programme and VOIS to embed the transformation.
- Ensure delivery excellence through structured governance, risk management, and milestone tracking and measurable impact through impact success measures and KPIs.
- Act as a catalyst for capability building, digital enablement, and behaviour changes which enables employee experience shifts including championing the use of AI / GenAI and Automation.
- This role is central to positioning HR as a co-architect of business success, modernising our operating model and enabling HR to deliver with speed, impact, and purpose.
Key Accountabilities:

- Programme Leadership & Governance
- Partner with the Senior Transformation Manager to lead and guide prioritised programme initiatives, ensuring delivery of impactful outcomes.
- Represent the programme in key governance and decision-making forums; act as delegate for the Senior Transformation Manager when required.
- Collaborate with the immediate programme team i.e. OE Lead, Graduate, PA to manage programme governance, including meeting cadence, agendas, and materials.
- Drive the creation of content for governance forums (e.g. Programme Steercos, GMT, Board Papers), working closely with the Senior Transformation Manager and TX team.
- o Manage programme budgets, investments, track cost savings, and ensure benefit realisation in partnership with finance.
- Maintain programme artefacts i.e. own and govern centralised knowledge hubs, documentation, and templates to ensure consistency and accessibility
- Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration
- Build and maintain strong relationships and work closely with stakeholders across VOIS HR TX team, VOIS HR, wider VOIS business, and Vodafone Group as required, creating engagement within the programme and outside
- Work closely with Internal Comms to shape, input to and deliver change communications and engagement plans and content aligned to programme outputs / workstream needs.
- Delivery & Execution
- Collaborate with Workstream Leads, squads, and delivery teams to ensure timely delivery of milestones, risk management, and readiness for governance checkpoints.
- Drive value realisation by ensuring initiatives are aligned to measurable KPIs and value levers, such as cost efficiency, capability uplift, and employee experience - while actively monitoring, tracking, and managing programme success metrics to maintain alignment with strategic goals.
- Innovation & Change Enablement
- Support the integration of AI and automation in HR practices, partnering with the TX team and where needed, CoEs and systems teams to drive operational excellence, personalisation, and data-driven decision-making.
- Act as a strategic change leader, embedding new ways of working, mindset shifts, and future capabilities across the HR and business landscape.
- Contribute to capability building across the HR community through toolkits, playbooks, and coaching.
- Core Competencies:

- Strategic thinking and visioning
- Business acumen and commercial awareness
- Application of external trends and insights
- AI and digital transformation awareness and understanding
- Innovation mindset
- Change management and communications
- Project and programme management, including governance coordination
- Risk management
- Strong senior stakeholder management
- Strong communication, facilitation, and problem-solving ski