Manager, Regional Network Operations Centre (NOC) 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 below:

Job Title: Manager, Regional Network Operations Centre (NOC)

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time

The Opportunity

• IHS Towers is expanding our global footprint and we are seeking an individual to join our team as Manager, Regional NOC .
• The individual will oversee information gathering and dissemination, as well as incident and problem management in the regional NOC, ensuring that end-to-end processes and activities are effectively and efficiently carried out by accountable teams.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Engage and guide the regional NOC team to understand departmental goals and objectives and take responsibility for achieving set targets/ requirements.
• Foster an enabling environment in which team-members promptly and effectively react to all network-related faults.
• Review individual performance of team-members and complete appraisals in accordance with the company’s performance appraisal procedures and timelines.
• Provide inputs to the process of identifying training needs of team-members.
• Drive effectiveness and efficiency of the incident and problem management processes. Monitor network status and progress towards resolution of all open incidents and problem.
• Analyze network fault statistics and provide insights to support strategic and operational decision-making at all management levels.
• Ensure prompt identification of problems in the network and work with the performance and customer experience teams to address these problems while achieving business performance targets and customer service level agreements (SLAs).
• Check network status and ensure closure of all incidents and problems identified on sites.
• Notify the Senior Manager, NOC Management whenever network downtime thresholds are reached or exceeded.
• Ensure accuracy of technical reports disseminated to target recipients/ audiences.
• Ensure all workarounds performed to restore service are revisited as part of permanent resolutions to network issues.
• Initiate and implement ideas to improve operational procedures, policies and functions of the regional NOC.
• Establish and maintain well-defined and effective communication channels within the regional NOC as well as between the NOC and internal and external customers.
• Serve as custodian of the NOC Knowledge Base.
• Continuously search for ways to improve the network performance.
• Develop proactive methodologies for conducting fault diagnostics and resolution.
• Identify new interfaces, tools, and applications to increase effectiveness of the Network Management Systems (NMS) deployed.
• Continuously assess operational and business continuity risks, ensuring timely awareness and deploying mitigating initiatives.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Senior Manager, NOC Management.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering, Electrical / Electronic Engineering, Computer Science and/ or any other related discipline
• Professional certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, etc, will be an asset.
• +10 years’ relevant experience in the telecoms industry.

Functional Competencies:

• Process Improvement
• Fault Management & Root-Cause Analysis
• Network Monitoring/ Availability/ Service Uptime Management
• Network Tools Admin/ Management
• Service Level Management
• Data Analysis & Reporting.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Collaboration & Teamwork.

Application Closing Date
18th May, 2023.