Senior Manager - Charging System and VAS Support at MTN Nigeria

MTN Nigeria - The leader in telecommunications in Nigeria, and a part of a diverse community in Africa and the Middle East, our brand is instantly recognisable. It is through our compelling brand that we are able to attract the right talents who we carefully nurture by continuously improving our employment offerings even beyond reward and recognition.

MTN Nigeria is recruiting to fill the below position:

Job Title: Senior Manager - Charging System and VAS Support
Department: Information Systems
Reporting To: GM, IS Service Delivery

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Translate MTNN’s Business plan and subscriber growth assumptions into requirements for Intelligent Network, VAS network, service creation and applications development
• Plan, monitor and deliver best in class OSS, BSS, IN / VAS systems in line with business plan
• Develop strategies to ensure optimum capacity planning for Call attempts  and signalling traffic utilisation across IN/VAS nodes
• Ensure  MTNN’s core/intelligent/VAS network performance is in line with defined KPA/KPI’s
• Maintain awareness of the latest technological and industry developments and act as subject matter expert regarding Intelligent & VAS  network design and capacity planning.
• Trend analysis management of all faults on the VAS & Prepaid systems
• Manage the performance and availability of the VAS & Prepaid systems
• Release Management Planning & control all system installations and commissioning.
• Ensure effective Vendor Management and Service Level Compliance.
• Monitor the status and performance of the network elements.
• Monitor international trends and business best practice in relation to specific product or technology.
• Oversee and direct the activities for architectural service design and integration of new and innovative products/services within MTN.
• Oversee the development of new products and services utilizing existing service layer features cutting across different functional systems e.g. CS 5.0, GPRS, SMS etc
• Alignment of IN and VAS nodes  to design and plan from  planning and ensure continuous analysis of performance to ensure effective capacity provisioning
• Create processes and procedures to effectively manage people, systems and processes
• Participate in the selection of suitable technologies and negotiate/manage contracts with suppliers accordingly
• Monitor and ensure that operational delivery of system outputs are met in line with OLAs and SLAs
• Develop processes and procedures to manage the environment
• Participate in the selection & selection of suitable technologies
• Manage contracts with suppliers/vendors
• Ensure operational delivery of business requirements

Job Conditions
Normal MTNN working conditions. Office Bound mostly Some weekends and after hours work International and In-country travel

Requirements

• First degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics, Communications Engineering or related field
• Minimum of 12 years experience which includes:
• 5 years managerial experience in  Telecoms/ ICT industry or similar role
• Experience in Core, IN and/or VAS planning/operations, software technology, contract negotiation, multi-vendor network operations, CAPEX and OPEX budget preparation and fixed network deployment.
• In depth knowledge in forecasting long term network growth and providing input to company business plan

Application Closing Date
11th December, 2012

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online