Job Description

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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
The Executive Head of Enterprise Solutions for Vodacom Group will be at the vanguard of the company's transition from traditional telecommunications offerings to cutting-edge ICT value propositions across 8 diverse African markets. This group role emphasises the formulation and oversight of a long-term strategic vision (3-5 years) while still driving short terms impact, collaborating with other group functions and operating companies across different regions for execution. Balancing expertise in fixed and beyond connectivity technologies with an understanding of Africa's unique market dynamics is paramount. Equally critical is the commercial interlock into enterprise strategic partnerships and alliances to design, develop and contract services to serve the aggregated needs of the operating companies.
Key attributes of the role

• Innovative Leadership Role: You will lead the company's product transition from traditional telecommunications to managed services across diverse African markets. You will shape the future of the company's product and solution vision over the next 3-5 years

• Strategic Influence: You will influence and motivate markets to develop solutions, build compelling business cases, and unlock budgets. This role showcases your strategic impact

• Technological Mastery: You need to stay updated on mobile and fixed technology evolution with particular focus on non-terrestrial networks, and enterprise managed network services. This role will attract candidates passionate about technology and innovation

• Collaborative Environment: You will work closely with other group functions and operating companies in various regions to align and execute the product vision. This role appeals to candidates who enjoy teamwork and cross-functional collaboration

• Leadership and Development: You will lead a small but high-impact team of specialists, fostering a culture of performance, continuous learning, and customer focus. This role attracts candidates who are strong leaders and team players

• Performance and Impact: You will establish and review metrics that measure the success of the product and partnership vision across regions. This role appeals to candidates who are results-driven and enjoy measuring their impact

Your responsibilities will include:

• Long-term Enterprise Product Vision & Regional Collaboration: Co-create a 3-5 year product / solutions roadmap across markets and work closely with operating companies in various regions to align and execute this vision, ensuring tailored strategies based on unique local needs, while still maintaining a shared group vision.

• Building Value Cases: Each market has many priorities, and helping them develop compelling business and value cases for product and platform deployment will happen often. There are often missing skills gaps and the candidate should not be afraid of rolling up their sleeves to get the job done.

• Technological Leadership & Mastery: Stay updated on mobile and fixed technology evolution (like LEO satellite & AI), and drive with other group functions and opco buy-in the integration of broadband and D2M NTN, cloud & cybersecurity solutions, software-defined networking, IoT solutions, and managed services into the product roadmap in a value-enhancing way to the operating companies.

• Stakeholder Management & Team Leadership: Engage a diverse array of stakeholders across different cultures, emphasizing teamwork, knowledge sharing, and close collaboration with local teams, while cultivating a culture of performance, fostering expertise development, and facilitating continuous learning programs with relentless focus on the customer.

• Performance Management: Establish and review metrics that measure the success of the vision across regions, ensuring alignment with the group's overarching objectives.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Matric - Essential
• Bachelor's degree - Essential
• An MBA or other master's level post-graduate studies - Advantageous
• A minimum of 10 years proven track record in consulting / relevant industry experience with a minimum of 5 years' management/supervisory experience - Essential

Core Competencies, Knowledge, and Experience:

• Develop value propositions, business cases and strategies that span multiple markets, products and customer segments
• Ability to handle complexity and ambiguity in a highly pressured environment, while driving buy in from multiple diverse stakeholders
• Good general management capabilities with high proficiency in PPT and Excel, and experience leading high-impact teams
• Ability and willingness to roll up sleeves and get work done where there are time pressures and skill gaps, while fostering an environment of learning and skills transfer
• Good understanding of digital technologies and their influence on our core and future business
• A natural networker, adept at establishing and cultivating relationships that align with the company's vision and objectives.
• Experience in consulting with industry experience is preferential as this group role focusses largely on strategy & advisory with the vast majority of execution happening in the operating companies
• Very strong commercial and financial acumen is a must, this role will be responsible for establishing group commercial terms with many critical partners for scale, and being able to coordinate value cases across multiple markets and currencies with multiple partners to get scale and future optionality is a key part of the job
• Knowledge of the commercial application of APIs in enterprise use cases
• Very high resilience as the role is demanding on performance but the environment is highly governed and driving new and complex initiatives with unknown risks is difficult. Significant resilience, positivity and ability to influence through high quality analysis is essential to be successful in this role.
• Understanding of new product development methodologies, processes, and best practices, including but not limited to product lifecycle management and the ability to develop value cases to support the product development roadmap in multiple territories.

Closing date for Applications: 24 September 2025.
The base location for this role is Vodacom, Midrand Campus.
The company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates, and values diversity & inclusion.
Commitment from Vodacom
Vodacom is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a flexible, motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognized, developed and rewarded. We believe that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business and we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment which respects, values, celebrates and makes the most of people's individual differences - we are not only multinational but multicultural too. At Vodacom you will have access to our excellent flexible benefits programme that you would expect from any global company.

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