VodafoneThree - Policy and Governance Manager
Location: Newbury OR London + Hybrid
Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits
Working Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday
What you’ll do
In this role, you’ll step into a career‑defining moment—helping shape the combined future of two major UK mobile networks. You’ll play a central part in building a governance and policy environment that sets new industry standards, ensures regulatory confidence, and empowers leaders to make informed, future‑focused decisions. You’ll be right at the heart of how the new organisation builds its culture, clarity, and strategic discipline.
* Lead the end‑to‑end lifecycle of all risk and compliance policies—drafting, reviewing, updating, and ensuring they remain aligned to strategy and regulation.
* Coordinate and run quarterly ERCC meetings, preparing agendas, drafting papers, managing committee packs, capturing minutes, and tracking actions with senior stakeholders.
* Manage governance activities required under the Shareholder Agreement, ensuring reporting is timely, accurate, and appropriately approved.
* Oversee the operation of Risk & Control Forums, maintaining a clear map of formal and informal governance bodies and supporting colleagues to work towards the future combined governance model.
* Run the Policy Governance Framework, guiding policy owners, supporting self‑assessments, delivering training where needed, and ensuring ERCC and ARC submissions are completed to a high standard.
* Act as the subject matter expert for policy management, making sure policies are easy to understand, accessible, and consistently applied across the organisation.
* Monitor regulatory developments and emerging risks, ensuring governance arrangements evolve in step with the external environment.
* Support and influence senior leaders across the business to drive strong governance, transparent decision‑making, and continuous improvement in all processes.
Who you are
* Experience in risk, compliance, governance, or regulatory roles within a regulated industry.
* Strong understanding of policy frameworks, governance principles, regulatory obligations, and training practices.
* Confident communicator with excellent written and verbal skills, able to simplify complexity and work with senior leaders.
* Skilled at producing high‑quality committee papers, reports, and insights—including trends, indicators, and decision support.
* Comfortable offering constructive challenge and strengthening governance in strategic conversations.
* Strong analytical skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office tools.
* Experience driving operational excellence, reducing pain points, and improving processes.
* Able to build relationships and positively influence stakeholders at all levels.
* Curious, proactive, willing to learn, and motivated by problem‑solving.
* Formal compliance qualifications such as ICA. - Desirable
* Experience managing or overseeing regulatory change programmes. - Desirable
What we offer
We care about our people’s success by offering great pay, bonuses, up to 28 days off plus bank holidays, and paid time for charity work. You can personalise our benefits for you and your family, like discounts, vouchers, a pension plan and loads more. We help with your career through our amazing learning tools and top‑notch parental leave policies.
Need to Know
We are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators standards.
Inclusion and Opportunity
We know that everyone has valuable contributions to make. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.
We are a Disability Confident Employer, and through the ‘Offer an Interview’ scheme we aim to offer interviews to a fair and proportionate number of applicants with disabilities who best meet the essential criteria for our vacancies. If you would like to participate in the scheme, you will have the opportunity to indicate this on your application.
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