Wholesale Trading Manager

**Company**:
At Vodafone Group we build connections to all our Global operations, acting as an advisory board to drive consistency and customer excellence across 30 countries and for over 420 million customers. We are constantly uncovering tactics to innovate the way we operate, set our global standards, or lead our strategic performance. By joining Vodafone Group, you will be part of evolving our digital world of total communications. Now is the time to get on board.

By joining the Vodafone Roaming Services (VRS) team, part of Vodafone Group you will help ensure over 750 million mobile customers can confidently connect abroad and enjoy voice and data services. VRS is located in Luxembourg and makes roaming work for Vodafone customers worldwide. It is Vodafone's central wholesale roaming team, which manages the contracts and technical connectivity with more than 650 foreign networks in almost every country of the world. They steer customers to the best available network and monitor their voice and data quality, around the clock. Negotiating roaming rates and traffic volumes with our roaming partners and settling the resulting payments with them. What links us all together is that we are all customer-obsessed, innovative hungry, and ambitious Are you?

**What you’ll do**:
As a Wholesale Negotiator, you will secure, implement, and manage on an end-to-end basis wholesale discount agreements with partners and third-party Mobile Networks on behalf of all Vodafone
This role is a rare opportunity for a customer-obsessed commercial professional and/or Wholesale Negotiator within the Roaming industry to take this business to the next level.
As a Wholesale Negotiator, you play an important part within Vodafone Roaming Services (VRS) in Luxembourg. Commercial acumen, strong negotiation skills as well and the ability to establish a network in the roaming world are key selection criteria. Joining us as a Wholesale Negotiator you can be part of our empowering global roaming function. You will:

- Develop the wholesale strategy with a view to optimizing wholesale costs and revenue.
- Prepare and carry out negotiations with roaming partners in your own portfolio focusing on Enterprise IoT under strict deadlines.
- Co-define and implement a steering strategy.
- Manage stakeholders - Internal, Group Retail, Partner Markets, Consumer and Enterprise Units and Local Markets.
- Optimize cash-flow.
- Deliver roaming discount deals that enable profitable, differentiated roaming propositions to Vodafone customers, as well as wholesale margin.
- Manage end-to-end the deal-making, implementation, and harvesting cycle of individual wholesale relationships by working closely with Legal, Finance, Tax, and other stakeholders.
- Create long-term financial plans and budget guidance.

**Who you are**:

- ** Analytical Skills**:Strong financial and reasoning skills with the ability to draw insights from a large volume of diverse data.
- ** Communication Skills**:Strong communication and presentation skills.
- ** Negotiation Skills**: Good influencing skills (both upward and downward management skills) with strong commercial and negotiation skills in relation to multi-million and multi-year agreements in the roaming industry.
- ** Results-oriented**: Strong drive and passion for delivering extraordinary results.
- ** Business Acumen**: Knowledge of commercial strategies.

**Not a perfect fit?**:
**What's in it for you**:

- Discretionary Yearly Bonus
- 28 Days of Annual Leave (with the option to buy 5 days and the opportunity to carry over 5 days per year)
- 1 Additional Day
- 11 Public Holidays
- 5 Charity Days per Year
- Flexible Working Schedule
- 20 Days to Work from Abroad
- Lunch Vouchers
- Access to Private AXA Health Insurance and Pension Scheme
- Access to Vodafone University and Online Training

**Together we can**:
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