Mng. Iot Engineering Excellence

Mng. Iot Engineering Excellence Vodafone Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain Senior Manager – IoT Engineering Excellence 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 By connecting people, places and things, Vodafone IoT helps organisations succeed in a digital world. With our expertise in connectivity, our leading IoT platform and our global scale, we can deliver the results our customers need to progress and thrive. We are helping businesses of all sizes and sectors connect for a better future. The Vodafone Internet of Things (IoT) suite of products and services are designed specifically to meet the needs of new and evolving business verticals. Promote modern Engineering practices, tooling, and methodologies across platform engineering teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and evolving tech strategy. Define and promote the right ways of working across engineering domains, cross engineering functions, other technology teams (Architecture, Technology Product, Delivery, Networks) and with business stakeholders. Support demand management & prioritization within Platform Engineering team. Drive a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. Ensure that IoT Platform keeps evolving to reduce run costs, becoming more efficient and productive. Support the delivery of improvement programmes across the engineering functions, including support for RPF/RFQ/RFIs. Ensure alignment with business objectives and emerging IoT industry trends. Define the baseline and target for cost‑efficiency targets, including resources and people. Support and influence location strategy and insourcing/outsourcing steps to deliver platform engineering goals. Support KTLO portfolio management, ensuring goals are delivered in time & form – this implies leading prioritization decisions in internal engineering and external forums. Who You Are Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, a related field, or equivalent work experience. Ten or more years of experience in Engineering or Operational functions. A minimum of 5 years of leadership responsibilities, including strategy, budgeting, and leading talent. Strong talent management skills including talent development, coaching, mentoring, and team motivation for geographically distributed teams. Strong leadership capability with proven track record of successful cross‑team development and working effectively with all organizational levels. Ability to effectively drive business, culture, and technology change in a dynamic and complex operating environment. Strong ability to build and maintain cross‑functional partnerships at all levels of the organization. Broad knowledge of current and emerging technologies, technology directions, and strategic application to business needs, including the ability to differentiate between a relevant trend and hype. Strong business acumen and ability to understand and drive business objectives. Expertise in budget planning, financial management and workforce management. Ability to improve operational efficiency, service delivery, and information management across the organization. Expertise in strategic planning, governance formulation, and organizational change management. Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing. Strong organizational skills, including an ability to perform under pressure and manage multiple priorities with competing demands for resources. What's In It For You Hybrid work (2 days in the office). Competitive salary. Intensive Summer Schedule. Intensive schedule every Friday. Health Insurance. Life insurance. 25 days holiday + December 24th and 31st. Restaurant tickets. Online training. Who We Are We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same. Belonging at Vodafone isn’t a concept; it’s lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You’ll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. We’re committed to increasing diversity, ensuring equal representation, and making Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance. #J-18808-Ljbffr