Senior Specialist, Projects (Real Estate) 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: Senior Specialist, Projects (Real Estate)

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• Manage / supervise all Real Estate projects, including special projects, and business-as-usual projects, including consolidation, relocation, and decommissioning projects.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Initiate, plan, execute, monitor/ control, and close all phases of Real Estate projects.
• Manage Real Estate budgets, ensuring efficient commitment and capitalization.
• Assist in setting up Real Estate policies and procedures that facilitate quality delivery of assigned projects.
• Ensure delivery of projects by establishing project goals, processes and performance standards. Describe and set key performance indicators (KPIs) to be applied in assessing project performance and delivery.
• Contribute ideas and solutions for reducing overhead expenses in meeting project budget objectives.
• Coordinate the project team and other stakeholders to achieve project milestones and adhere to project schedule.
• Allocate project activities to team-members and vendors for implementation. Constantly review project resource levels, capacities, progress and performance.
• Monitor, report and communicate project progress through periodic project review meetings with key stakeholders.
• Identify and evaluate project performance gaps to be mitigated.
• Maintain and manage an issue log document on assigned project issues.
• Formulate and manage a change control process to ensure that projects are executed in line with mandates, specifications, and laid-down policies and procedures.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Senior Manager, Landlord Relations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunication Engineering, Real Estate Management, Business Management or any related discipline.
• Advanced degree in any of the above disciplines, MBA and/or relevant professional certifications, e.g. PMP and PRINCE2, will be an asset.
• +7 - 10 years’ relevant experience, including most recent 3 - 4 years in telecoms Industry.

Application Closing Date
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