Executive Head: Mobile Products

About this role

Vodacom is looking for a senior leader to run its national mobile product portfolio. The role sits within the wider Products and Solutions function and is based at the Vodacom Campus in Midrand, Gauteng.

You will set the medium-term direction for mobile, own the mobile P&L and lead the teams that bring mobile products to market.

What you’ll do

• Shape the two-year-plus mobile strategy and roadmap, and recommend changes to the Managing Executive when the market calls for them.
• Own the consolidated mobile P&L, including revenue, margin, profitability, market share and customer experience across voice, data, APN, devices and related propositions.
• Make portfolio, pricing, launch and investment decisions within your delegated authority, and escalate larger or cross-functional decisions.
• Set the go-to-market plan across direct, indirect, digital, SME, enterprise and public-sector channels, and track adoption and return on spend.
• Manage the mobile budget and acquisition and retention spend with Finance and Commercial teams.
• Lead and develop Portfolio Managers, Product Managers and Trade Marketing, and coordinate work across Sales, Marketing, Finance, Technology, Operations, Digital and CVM.

What you need

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification.
• 8 years or more of technology, product or commercial management experience in ICT or a related environment.
• Experience leading a large national product portfolio through managers or senior portfolio leaders.
• Experience with portfolio strategy, product lifecycle management, pricing and go-to-market leadership.
• 5 years or more of management experience, including responsibility for managers or complex matrix teams.
• Strong understanding of portfolio P&L, investment appraisal, pricing, margin and customer acquisition and retention economics.
• Experience with enterprise customers and mobile propositions, pricing and customer lifecycle.
• Advantageous: a postgraduate qualification or an MBA.

Is this job for you?

This role suits a commercially minded leader who can turn market insight into clear product choices. You should be comfortable making trade-offs across customer segments and influencing senior stakeholders without direct line authority.

If you have led profitable growth in a large mobile or ICT business, this role may be a strong match.

Tips before you apply

• Have your CV ready with clear dates, employers and the size of the portfolios or P&L you have managed.
• Show your P&L results with figures where you can, such as revenue growth, margin or market share.
• Give examples of managing managers or matrix teams, and how you built leadership depth in your teams.