Principal Specialist: Venture Manager

Role Purpose

Identify opportunities to design and build and take to market, inter-aliaPlatform businesses

Design, model, test and launch new ventures operationally, commercially and financially

Develop market Awareness, Acquisition, Activation and Retention strategies and plans

Take responsibility for the launch and success of the ventures

Assess build, buy, and Partner options to accelerate growth plans

Have a clear understanding of

Strategic thinking,

Business planning,

Storytelling and pitching,

Proactive problem solving

End-to-end venture assessment,

Articulating pivot points in the development of a venture

Reengineering and radically simplifying operational models

Platform businesses and associate technologies

Understand Design Thinking principles and the Agile Project Management framework

Ensure human-centric focus to venture and user experience designs

Identify ideas that result in improving operating efficiency and reducing costs.

Prepare written documentation across all stages of developing a venture

Must be able to manage the end-to-end incubation and acceleration stages of multiple ventures running concurrently

Build quality business plans, go-to-market and growth plans for ventures to be accelerated

Follow a lean start-up methodology to launch new ventures in the market to ignite and prove new revenue streams

Your Responsibilities Will Include

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

Identify and validate new venture opportunities

Develop the vision, framework and strategy for new ventures to be built

Create operating models and business process maps of the high-level activities involved in defining what a planned business entity will do, who is responsible, and how the success of a business unit can be determined

Identify, develop, and assess build, buy, and Partner options to accelerate the growth plans

Identify and exploit opportunities for venture funding

Participate in the design, development, deployment, testing and configuration of products affiliated with each venture.

Ensure alignment of products to vision defined for venture

Work collaboratively to understand the customers problem statements, the value chain, cost structures, profit pools, size of the opportunity, and the associated sensitivity analysis

Support the development and scale-up of a venture from inception to exit

Define and develop business, financial and commercial models that deliver outsized value to customers

Establish key performance indicators for venture outcomes

Compile reports at each incubation and acceleration stage of ventures to cascade design considerations, trial findings, market reactions to the launched venture, and pivot recommendations

Deliver a great experience to partners when working with our organisation - Be the Internal partners liaison.

Develop Vision and strategy for Ventures

Drive ventures through the Incubation and, where applicable, the acceleration stages contained in the Innovation Framework

Assess outcomes of each stage/sub-stage, cascade findings, opportunities and pivot recommendations

Develop, test and execute business models and plans

Develop best practices, processes and innovative procedures to improve the quality of ventures established and their associated success rate

Identify and mitigate risks confronting planned ventures

Provide written documentation (incl. reports)

The Ideal Candidate For This Role Will Have

Postgraduate Degree in Commerce or Business Science degrees

Bachelor's Degree in technology or engineering-related discipline is a must

Demonstrated entrepreneurial experience

7 years of experience incubating new businesses and/or establishing new businesses or markets

Strong preference for candidates with entrepreneurial/intrapreneurial and consultancy industry experience

5 years of Business Management hands-on experience

Strong Interpersonal And Communication Skills Are Required

Ability to influence and get stakeholder buy-in

Analytical thinker with interpersonal skills

Ability to apply a disciplined experimental and design thinking approach to solving problems and modelling businesses using data and current technology tools

Skills

Business Management

Communication and active listening

In-depth knowledge of business design, Incubation, and Acceleration

Business Modelling financial and commercial

Business Plan development and execution

Networking

Critical and Creative Thinking

Time Management and Organisational

Closing date for Applications: 24 April 2023.

The base location for this role is, Midrand, Vodacom Campus

The Companys 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 organizational culture that recognizes, appreciates, and values diversity & inclusion.