IT Support Senior Managers at IHS Towers

IHS Towers is the largest independent mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.  Founded in 2001, IHS provides services across the full tower value chain – colocation on owned towers, deployment and managed services.

Today IHS Towers has operations in Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia and Rwanda. Following the recent acquisitions of MTN and Etisalat’s tower portfolios in Nigeria, IHS owns over 23,300 towers in Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: IT Support Senior Manager

Location: Lagos
Reports To: Director IT

Job Summary

• The IT Support Senior Manager will promote new uses of information technology within the organization through the support for exploratory and innovative applications.
• He will develop and maintain highly effective, reliable, secure, and innovative information systems to support the company’s growth.
• The role is responsible for controlling the IT Capex & Opex across all operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement an ICT strategy that ensures the company is prepared for changes in the nature of its business processes.
• Ensure that current and future organizational strategic plans are supported by the organization’s ICT strategy.
• Oversee the development and delivery of ICT products and services, in accordance with agreed service and performance standards as well as industry best practice.
• Managing all ICT software, hardware and processes for all ICT needs of the IHS
• Ensure that IT infrastructure (including communication systems such as phones), design and selection, supports the organization’s needs and develop/review procedures, policies and workflows accordingly.
• Manage and advice management about (safety of) data storage and all future Developments with regards to ICT.
• Control and manage capital expenditure and budgets, ensuring expenditure within the ICT function is appropriately managed.
• Manage the ICT team(s) and support them in providing best ICT services possible.
• Work closely together with our operational teams in order to understand their needs and provide them timely with the requested items/services.
• Assist the procurement team in buying process of new ICT systems, and whilst negotiating maintenance and support contracts for ICT systems, when needed.
• Maintain strong relationships with our (key) ICT suppliers and contractors.
• Set up clear ICT policies.

Requirements and Competencies

• Ability to work with no supervision and possess good supervisory skills
• The trait of being dependable and trustworthy
• Analytical mind, good judgment and interpersonal skills, honesty and high integrity
• Excellent communication skills (both written and spoken)
• Excellent team player and works well under pressure
• Effective use of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project etc)
• Practical experience with Oracle Database
• Knowledge of Operations
• Ability to demonstrate conducts conforming to a set of values and accepted standards.
• Ability to utilize the available time to organize and complete work within given deadline
• Engineering or related degree
• A minimum 10 years of experience in the IT Industry with minimum 5 years of Managerial experience

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How To Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's and Cover letter to: [email protected] indicating in the subject the name and location of the role.