Home BroadBand Network Planning Lead at Airtel Nigeria

Airtel Nigeria (Airtel Networks Limited) is a leading telecommunications services provider in Nigeria headquartered in Lagos, the commercial nerve-centre of Nigeria. The telco ranks amongst the top four mobile service providers in terms of subscribers with a customer base of more than 39.8 million. The company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce and enterprise services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Home BroadBand Network Planning Lead

Job Identification: 424
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time

Job Description

• To Provide the required and much needed Technical and Network related support to the Home Broadband Business for on-time and efficient Service delivery with seamless operation. 
• To Support with comprehensive proposals for all Enterprise services offered to customers
• To Coordinate technical requirements with the Networks team to ensure a timely response to customers on all requests and work closely with the project manager to ensure timely service delivery for all customer projects.

Responsibilities
Planning and Design:

• Lead the planning and design of all FTTX/FWA networks that is resilient, scalable and secure
• Constantly Monitor and Optimize network KPIs to meet business requirements. 
• Support Sales by ensuring the network has sufficient capacity to facilitate sales at any given time while also guaranteeing quality of service and experience. 
• Prepare all NFAs/Business cases relating to 5G, fiber deployments and all HBB network solutions
• Design and dimensioning of Network/Polygons with respect to vendor (OEM) mapping.
• To provide Pre- and Post- Sales customer support
• To support Customer integration
• Interface with HBB and Enterprise business teams to design and plan to meet the Objectives
• Provide specific coverage solutions for customers
• Coordinates installation and deployment of fiber connectivity
• Tagging and identification of all fixed assets relating to FTTX and FWA.
• Ensure provision of relevant Network planning tools for work efficiency.
• Ensure to obtain relevant government permits (eg RoW) for new design and deployments. 

Service level agreement compliance:

• High Compliance with the regulatory SLA targets /objectives 
• Develop standard SLA for managing deliverables internally with cross functional team.
• Ensures prompt resolution of Network related issues to maintain the maximum service availability. (Avoid Unnecessary Revenue deduction). 
• Lead the Compilation of all customer data that is required for ensuring high quality of service
• Monthly review of SLA performance across the region/territories  

Team Management:

• Provide clarity of purpose to team members
• Ensure effective prioritization of planning and design activities 
• Manage all partners /OEMS responsible for service and optimization of the network
• Coach, mentor and guide team members, ensuring high motivation
• and engagement
• Put in place training and development plan for members of the Team.

Qualifications
Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Electrical Electronics with Computing Option or any other IT related courses
• Professional qualifications in Networking such as CCNA, CCNP or higher will be an added advantage

Relevant Experience & Functional / Technical Skills:

• 8 years of Telecoms work experience with at least 3 years of relevant experience in a planning role.
• Industry. 2 which has to be at supervisory level.
•  Relevant experience in telecom enterprise services networking environment will be preferred.
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft office suite (Project, Word, Excel, Visio and Power Point) will be required

Other requirements:

• Delighting the customers
• Strong technical aptitude & IT savvy
• Strong communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Teamwork & Collaboration with stakeholder
•  Highly Result Oriented believes in teamwork
•  Customer Centric approach
• Strong analytical skills able to draw conclusions from data, management of information and trends

Application Closing Date
15th April, 2025; 05:00 PM.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online