Senior Head of Public Sector Sales at Vodafone

Department: Public Sector Sales

Setup: On-site
Location: Drogheda
Level: lead/mgmt
Posted: Sep 18, 2026

Description

Vodafone Business Ireland is hiring a Senior Head of Public Sector Sales to lead a 50+ person sales organization serving central government, public safety, Defence, health, education, local government and semi-state customers. The role owns a EUR 50M+ revenue base, strategic growth, procurement and tender strategy, complex negotiations, commercial governance, customer trust and sales transformation, while covering connectivity, managed services, cyber security, SASE, SD-WAN, cloud collaboration and related digital solutions.

Required Skills

Public-sector sales
Public procurement
Large-scale tenders
Complex renewals
Negotiation
Forecasting
Cyber security
SD-WAN
SASE

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Senior sales leadership experience in telecommunications, technology, ICT, cyber or managed services
Leading large B2B or public-sector sales organizations with material revenue accountability
Managing an established revenue base while delivering new growth
Understanding of Irish government, public-sector and semi-state buying dynamics
Experience with frameworks, public procurement, large-scale tenders, complex renewals and multi-stakeholder governance
Commercial acumen, negotiation capability and board-level stakeholder presence
Leading sales transformation, improving forecasting and embedding coaching-led performance management
Preferred Qualifications: Experience selling into Defence, public safety, critical infrastructure, health, education, energy, transport, water or regulated semi-state sectors
Knowledge of Irish national digital strategy, cyber security strategy, procurement reform and government technology programmes
Experience partnering with global technology vendors, cyber partners, systems integrators and managed service providers
Understanding of NIS2, critical entity resilience, sovereign data considerations and secure public-sector operating environments