Quick facts
  • What we do:
    Telecommunications Provider
  • Year established:
    1980
  • Website:
    http://www.vodafone.co.uk
  • Contact
    • Vodafone UK, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 2FN

About Vodafone

Vodafone are a provider of telecommunications services in the UK, and a part of the Vodafone Group, the world’s second-largest mobile phone company.

The organisation, founded in 1980, provides telecommunications, broadband and IT services to both consumer and enterprise customers.

Their purpose is to connect everybody to live a better today and build a better tomorrow, which they do through values ingrained into every member of staff. These values are speed, simplicity, trust, customer-obsessed, innovation-hungry, ambitious and competitive, one company, and local roots.

The company is led by Chief Executive Officer Nick Jeffery and has headquarters in Newbury.

What is it like to work for Vodafone

My Manager
My Manager
Managers’ performance is measured through the effectiveness and achievement of their team’s operational targets and KPIs and the annual engagement survey that asks employees specifically about their line manager’s performance.
My Team
My Team
The company holds an employee family fun day dubbed ‘Vodafun Day’ where various activities take place across their hub sites for thousands of employees and their families - 1,500 people attended the Newbury HQ ‘Vodafun Day’. Activities included fair stalls, a digital zone, cinema, giant outdoor games and petting zoos.
Fair Deal
Fair Deal
To make employees feel that they have a vested interest in the long-term success of the company, Vodafone gives all employees the opportunity to buy shares with a 20% discount by signing up to the Sharesave scheme.

Learn more about the 8 factors of workplace engagement here

Benefits:

  • Holidays
    Holidays

    Companies offering a minimum of 25 days annual leave to all employees

  • Maternity
    Maternity

    At least 10 weeks’ full pay or generous alternative

Company Statistics

  • Staff:

    12403

  • Staff Turnover:

    19%

  • Average Age:

    36

  • Earning £35,000+:

    37%

  • UK sites:

    500

  • Male : Female:

    65% / 35%

Accreditation

Accreditation 2018
Accreditation 2009
Accreditation 2008
Accreditation 2007
Accreditation 2006

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