VodafoneThree - Channel Readiness Specialist
Aggregate function: Consumer
Business Area: Local Consumer Business Unit
Posting Country: United Kingdom
Full Time / Part Time: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Stoke on Trent - Hybrid Working
Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits
Working hours: 37.5 hours per week – Mon to Friday
What you’ll do
The Channel Readiness Specialist plays a key role in helping new products, services, processes and regulatory changes land successfully across Retail, Call Centre and Indirect channels. You’ll take complex change and turn it into clear, practical operational outputs, making sure colleagues understand what’s changing, why it matters, and how to deliver it. You’ll also work closely with teams across the business to support smooth, high quality launches.
* Coordinate readiness activity for assigned change within a defined product or operational area, ensuring Assisted and Indirect channels are ready for launch.
* Translate business, technical and regulatory changes into clear, easy to follow operational instructions, briefings and actionable content for channel colleagues.
* Support the creation of readiness materials such as guides, knowledge articles, process flows and channel specific briefing content.
* Identify potential risks, channel impacts or operational blockers early, escalating them with clear mitigation options.
* Work closely with cross functional teams including GTM, Product, CVM, Ops and Tech to ensure channel needs are understood and built into design and delivery.
* Collaborate with Channel Comms and Enablement teams to ensure communications and learning content are timely, accurate and aligned to readiness requirements.
* Engage with Retail field teams, Indirect partners and Call Centre groups to validate real world impact and gather insight to improve launch quality.
* Support launch governance through clear documentation, version control and tracking of readiness milestones.
* Monitor how change lands post launch, flagging issues, pulling together feedback and supporting continuous improvement.
* Contribute to a culture of collaboration, clarity and operational excellence within the readiness team.
Who you are
* You have experience in a customer facing, operational or channel support role within telecoms or a similar fast moving environment.
* You bring a good understanding of Assisted and/or Indirect channel operations, including sales, service or retail processes.
* You’re comfortable simplifying complex technical, commercial or regulatory information into clear, channel friendly outputs.
* You have strong organisational skills and experience coordinating multiple changes at the same time.
* You communicate clearly and confidently, both written and verbally, with strong attention to detail.
* You’ve worked collaboratively across teams such as GTM, Product, Ops or Tech.
* You’re able to work under pressure, prioritise effectively and adapt quickly as plans evolve.
* You’re comfortable using data, feedback and insight to continuously improve readiness quality and operational design.
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 lots 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 regulator’s standards.
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