Manager, Commercial Planning at 9mobile Nigeria

9mobile is a Nigerian private limited liability company. EMTS acquired a Unified Access Service License from the Nigerian Communications Commission in 2007. The License enables EMTS provide Fixed Telephony (wired or wireless), Digital Mobile Services, International Gateway Services and National/Regional Long Distance Services in addition to spectrum assignments in the 900 and 1800 MHz bands.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Manager, Commercial Planning

Location: Lagos

Job Summary 

• Oversees the commercial budget management and business analysis, examine commercial budget (revenue and opex) estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations.
• Analyze and control commercial budget in terms of spend and revenue for various commercial channels as well as preparation of the commercial Business Plan.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Forecasting, Budgeting and budgetary Control on Subscriber count, revenue, handsets and cost of sales for the entire Commercial group
• Preparation of the Business plan and analyzing of all KPIs
• Produce Monthly/Quarterly/Half-yearly reforecast of the business plan KPIs based on actual performance against targets
• Product income comparison with set standards on predetermined ARPU’s, determining reasons for variance with a view of addressing reasons for monthly disparities.
• Preparation of Departmental Budget on income and recurrent expenditure for various commercial channels.
• Liaise with the finance team to ensure that Budget set standards is met and budgetary standards on cost are within standards prescribed by Finance.
• Regulate and instill strict financial discipline and control within the commercial teams.
• Generate reports on financial performance for commercial teams on a regional basis.
• Prepare product margin analysis, business cases and activity-based costing.
• Perform any duties as assigned by the VP, Product Marketing & Commercial Strategy

Education and Experience

• First Degree or equivalent in a numerate discipline.
• Postgraduate/professional qualification in a related field will be an added advantage.
• Six (6) to eight (8) years work experience, with at least three (3) years in a supervisory role.
• Professional experience in commercial, finance control operations and cost management.
• Prior work experience in Telecom Industry will be an added advantage.
• Experience in cross functional collaboration and management
• Experience in making presentations to senior management
• Minimum of intermediate Microsoft Office 365 user (advanced user of Microsoft Excel).

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.