Mobile Financial - Services Business Growth & Activation Manager at Ericsson Nigeria

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Ericsson Nigeria is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Mobile Financial - Services Business Growth & Activation Manager

Req ID: 56388
Location: Lagos, NG

Responsibilities & Tasks

• Provide professional input and advice to customer team in developing Mobile Money market / country strategy and proposition and marketing plans
• Ideas generation, concept validation, and business case for new opportunities and service enhancements
• Create a service roadmap and implementation plan on a quarterly basis resulting in effective subscriber uptake and service usage
• Manage product launch of all new propositions, products and services, ensuring effective implementation , uptake of services among target segments and hand-over to local customer proposition management team
• Develop Transaction volume forecast for each market and service type on quarterly basis. Advise Ericsson’s customers on strategies to deliver transaction volume targets
• Establish a successful network of ecosystem partners for targeted markets
• Engage in business negotiations with potential and existing ecosystem partners to ensure positive outcome
• Measure and support in improving overall MFS subscriber experience and benchmark v/s competition
• Act as key subject matter expertise to support Ericsson sales functions as part of pre-sales process for upsell on the mobile money platform
• Sharing customer and market information with the Ericsson Product Management, Business Development, Finance and Technical teams in order to improve the service features and positioning

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant professional experience of which at least 5 years in a B2C marketing or Sales within the areas of mobile payments, money transfer, mobile money, and pre-paid cards
• Very good experience and understanding of mobile commerce eco-system, preferably from transactional services or business operations for a major MFS service provider in Africa
• Relevant experience from working in the CMO and product organization of a telecoms or consumers services provider in Africa
• Experience in a business to business sales and partnering environment, and evidence of driving successful projects within mobile commerce at an international level
• Strong track record in engaging at C-level and closing contracts, demonstrated ability to translate value propositions that secure winning propositions
• Entrepreneurial in nature and have the ability to recognize and create new business opportunities

Human Competence and Personal traits include:

• Have a consultative business approach, and known for your excellent communication and presentation skills
• Know how inspire business dialogues, build trust and make business profitable for all parties.
• Are self-motivated to develop new business and a very goal oriented individual
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken
• Are a team player and able to work & communicate with a global team in remote locations.

Application Closing Date
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Method of Application
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