Managing a growing delivery and a transformation portfolio that currently spans across Finance, Commercial, Business, Networks, Corporate, Roaming and VOIS.  The Vodafone Analytics (VAN) organization is responsible for providing core services to Vodafone teams worldwide to enable analytics and BI in the cloud. This includes onboarding of new tenants and use cases across Vodafone to Google cloud, delivering AI and ML platforms and automation, delivering analytics and busines intelligence products, analytics solution engineering designing integrated analytics solutions, and data governance. 
The purpose of Vodafone Analytics (VAN) organization is to champion the power of data in decision making and lead the charge ensuring analytics and data platforms are fit for purpose and can scale to meet the need for innovation. And to enable data and analytics by creating next generation platforms.
The Head of Analytics Product Delivery (VAN) has 4 senior delivery leads and their associated multi-disciplined teams on/off-shore reporting into them. Each delivery lead manages a portfolio of delivery initiatives  and works closely with their associated customers. Coordination of this done with a portfolio manager and executed using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE) to drive multiple agile release trains through PI increments. 

The Head of Analytics Product Delivery needs to demonstrate the ability to drive multiple mega size programmes and diverse multi-location teams by creating a delivery & operating models that meet the high business demand, serves time-to-market, deal with the internal/external dependencies, while maintaining the right disciplines to ensure productivity and quality across teams and locations.

Role Responsibilities 

Driving the technical delivery of mega programmes as well as medium and small projects, (many release trains) in a standard manner. Establishing delivery KPI’s and governance around all initiatives in-scope. 
Stakeholder management across Finance, Commercial, Business, Networks, Roaming, VOIS and more. 
Partner with the business to agree on data platforms priorities and align on shared objectives.
Costing, budget management and cross charging for all new instances and new demand in GCP. Setting the expectations with the market stakeholders and supporting the Business Cases build.
Supplier relationship and set up for all analytics and AI requirements.
Best practice sharing in analytics projects across markets & all Vodafone functions.
Data governance, audit & controls of the cloud platform usage for continuous improvement and efficiency
Ensuring Common platforms and standards are implemented. Work within the ecosystem of Analytics & Data Services, align with its leadership team and ensure following the Data Ocean standards, security standards and Analytics CoE guidelines.
Progressing the adoption of SAFe.
 

Key Skills 

Head of Analytics product delivery will have come from a software development discipline originally and be proficient in technology to a level that understands architectural concepts.  

Must have:-

• Experience leading multiple large scale data projects – technical background in data and analytics and a platform product mindset are of essence.
• Delivered a cloud transformation from end to end covering all aspects including service implementation and operational support. 
• Individual must have a knowledge of the analytics and BI life cycle. 
• Strong understanding of various data strategies and execution models employed across the industry and in other industries
• Ability to structure, manage, influence and develop a team of independent and self-motivated technical professionals
• Experienced at managing and leading virtual, cross-functional teams.
• Knowledge of agile and specifically scaled agile delivery.
• Proven ability to work in complex matrixed organizations and to create effective operating models.