Global Category Manager Content

at  Vodafone

COMPANY

The Vodafone Procurement Company (VPC) in Luxembourg is part of the Vodafone Group and drives our aspiration to connect for a better future. We purchase products and services from across the globe to help run our business at its very best. We support our people to deliver on our strategy and be a brand loved by our customers, communities, co-partners, and colleagues. We give and take ownership to make the most of our many talents and we are always learning to grow ourselves and our business. We get it done, together.

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As a Procurement Manager of Content Business Intelligence, you will be working as part of a central content procurement team, reporting to a Principal Global Category Manager.
Your two primary responsibilities will be firstly, the responsibility for data, business intelligence, and automation from A to Z across content procurement and secondly, to carry out negotiations with content providers, actively and as part of the team.
As part of the team, you will co-manage Vodafone’s content acquisition globally. Working with the Luxembourg team and with Vodafone’s business stakeholders you will identify commercially relevant data requirements and data sources both internally and externally. One focus of the role will be to improve and expand internal business intelligence capabilities that will help the team deliver better commercial outcomes in their deals. This will involve the evaluation of specific commercial deals as well as value assessment and benchmarking in relation to existing agreements with the aim of providing data-based strategies to optimize negotiations.
As part of your role, you will also help identify areas of opportunity for digitization and automation across the end-to-end content management value chain in Vodafone and work on realizing those opportunities. This will be performed in close collaboration with our SCM Analytics Team, and local content, and SCM teams, working as a large cross-functional virtual team led by the VPC.
A further focus of the role will be to carry out negotiations with content providers, both alone and as part of a team. This will involve contributing to the refinement and implementation of our centralized content acquisition (sourcing) strategy that supports the global and local content business strategy while leveraging Vodafone’s global scale to maximize commercial benefits for our local markets. The successful candidate will manage commercial relationships and contracts with our content providers astutely, identify new content sources, secure new rights, and manage complex content contract negotiations competently.
The role holder will be challenged to operate efficiently across a complex stakeholder landscape and competing priorities and will be world-class in project management. Our ideal candidate will have a proven track record of successfully managing Content acquisition projects on an international level.