Radio Budget Planning Tech Sr. Specialist

**Role Purpose**:

- Own Radio Budget Planning and Actualization process.
- Radio Vendors Management.
- Support in setting Radio Technical Strategy.
- Manage PO issuance and follow up on Delivery.

**Key Accountabilities & Decision Ownership**:
**Technical Management**:

- Deliver Capex/ Opex DB/LRP while ensuring financial targets, efficient use of resources, and managing priorities when required by financial challenges
- Variance analysis to validate business assumptions and provide hands-on advice to senior management.
- Carry out any special studies, analysis and business cases for investment decisions.
- Business processes analysis, enhancement, automation and digital transformation.
- Manage vendors and make deals to achieve business requirements.
- Provide saving initiatives across radio domain.
- Drive quarterly\monthly budget reviews and focus on efficiency opportunities and delivery.
- Represent Radio in all budget/financial activities across Technology and Vodafone Group
- Manage and Identify risks and provide tactical advice to management and stakeholders to achieve short and long-term strategy
- Ability to negotiate on difficult and sensitive issues
- Ability to prioritize own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others where required.
- Ability to provide, receive, and process highly complex and sensitive information.

**Reporting**:

- Regular reporting on projects cost variances, payments against budgets, commitments, and forecast.

**Communication / Interfaces**:

- Interface with different departments within the Company.
- Attend relevant meetings with senior management and Vodafone Group.

**Core Competencies, Knowledge and Experience**:
**Putting customer first**:

- Responsive.
- Communicates clearly.
- Takes personal responsibility.

**Performing through our people**:

- Gets the right resources and manages team.
- Communicates to support team effectiveness and keeps people informed.
- Cooperates and speaks positively about the team and promote team effectiveness.
- Delegates challenging work and encourages others.
- Works to build commitment.
- Understands emotion and verbal content.
- Directs people, sets limit and sticks to performance standards and takes actions to address performance when necessary.

**Delivering Results**:

- Wants to do job well and creates own measures of excellence.
- Helps others to concentrate on priorities and improves performance.
- Reacts to short-term opportunities.
- Takes account of financial impact of actions.
- Is sensitive in a time-sensitive situation.

**Managing a changing environment**:

- Accepts the need for flexibility and applies rules flexibly.
- Takes a long-term perspective.
- Identifies problem and sees basic relationships and patterns.

**Making a personal difference**:

- Acts confidently within job role.
- Willing to learn and take action to improve himself.
- Acts according to basic values and openness and honesty.

**Technical / Professional Expertise**:

- Education: Engineering or Accounting or Economics Degree from a reputable university.
- PC Knowledge: Experience of MS Office (Excel, Word, Power Point, MS Access).
- Technical skills: Good knowledge of mobile industry preferably in radio. Excellent financial acumen.
- Personal skills: Excellent communication and negotiation skills, Good command of English language, Ability to work independently and under pressure. A strong yet diplomatic personality, analytical and creative thinking. Well organized, co-operative and able to meet changing work conditions and peak workloads.