IHS Towers Latest Recruitment April 2016

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.

Job Title:  Network Engineer 
  
Summary 
The Network Engineer is responsible for designing, organizing, modifying, installing, and supporting the company’s information technology network subsystem including but not limited to LANs, WANs. ISP, intranet systems and network segments. 
  
Personal Profile 
The Individual must have the ability to prioritize and multitask; willingness to learn new technologies and maintain industry knowledge. Excellent communications and interpersonal and presentation skills. 
  
Responsibilities  

  • Install and support LANs, WANs, network segments and internet/ intranet systems. 
  • Maintain integrity of the network, server deployment and security.
  • Ensure network connectivity throughput the company’s LAN/ WAN infrastructure is on par with technical considerations.
  • Perform network IP address assignment and VLAN distribution
  • Assign routing, protocols and routing table configuration.
  • Capacity management and audit of IP addressing and hosted devices within data centers.
  • Design and implementation of new network solutions and improving of the current environment.
  • Install and maintain network hardware and software.
  • Monitor networks to ensure security and availability to specific users.
  • Determine network and system requirements.

 Competencies  

  • Hands on experience implementing and administering network devices, setting and maintaining policies and rights/security within the environment: CISCO, MCU, CISCO WLC and CISCO AP
  • Extensive skills designing, configuring and troubleshooting enterprise routing protocols, QoS policies and priority queuing and network flow management.
  • Good Visio Skills are required.

 Professional Qualifications 

  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or any other related discipline (NO EXCEPTION)
  • CCNP and or CCNP Certification
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in network design and support in Cisco networking environment, including expert knowledge of TCP/IP and working and hands on knowledge of routing and Ethernet switching IPv6 addressing and sub netting.
  • Minimum of 2 years’ experience in firewall and network security solution: CISCO, ASA, ADS,IPS, filtering, CISCO VPN and cyberoam.

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Job Title:  Head, Revenue Management
  
Summary 
The individual will manage the entire revenue management & assurance activities. 
  
Personal Profile 
The Individual should have strong experience of revenue assurance and demonstrate experience and knowledge of revenue reconciliations plus hands on experience of contract compliances. 
  
Responsibilities 

  • Liaise with other functional/departmental managers to understand all necessary aspects and needs of development, and to ensure they are fully informed of objectives, purposes and achievements
  • Ensure execution and follow up of sales coordination process in a customer friendly way
  • Develop SLA agreements between revenue assurance department and other departments
  • Brief and report to upper management about revenue and business processes related issues and challenges
  • Conduct frequent field and site visits to direct assessment of the tenancy
  • Attend senior management meetings
  • Ensure the efficiency of all applications like NAV, Intego and other applications or any tool related to revenue assurance
  • Contribute to the achievement of the strategic objectives of the sector through performing own responsibilities and coordinating direct reports performance
  • Set the section’s goals and objectives and ensure the cascading of such to the direct reports’ individual goals
  • Apply individual items of sector policies, procedures and processes and ensure adherence and implementation
  • Ensure the ongoing development of the section’s employees, and guide the activities of direct reports

 Competencies  

  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • Practical experience and knowledge of Towers Infrastructure and Tenancy arrangements, alternatively general practical experience in communications industry
  • General understanding of TowerCo business and associated technical knowledge
  • Practical experience of processes documentation and SLAs
  • Demonstrate the processes mapping techniques and skills
  • Presentation skills, and hand on experience on MS Office tools
  • Sound knowledge of internal control environment and internal control framework (COSO)

  
Professional Qualifications  

  • Master’s in Business Management or Finance, CPA, ACCA
  • Qualification in Revenue Assurance preferred
  • International experience and best practice preferred
  • Contract management qualification preferred
  • A minimum of Eight (8) years of experience in Revenue Assurance or a related field with at least Three (3) years in a manager role (note, RA is the main challenge, so someone coming from a billing/collection background without RA experience may not be considered)
  • Alternatively very senior manager function in a related field might be considered
  • Fluency in English and solid experience in presenting to Senior and Executive Management 


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Job Title:   Revenue Assurance Manager   
Summary 
The Revenue Assurance Manager will oversee the entire revenue management assurance activities and business processes. 
  
Personal Profile 
The individual must possess leadership and relationship building skills. They must also be able to solve problems and settle disputes. 
  
Responsibilities 

  • Contribute to the achievement of the strategic objectives of the sector through performing own responsibilities and coordinating direct reports performance.
  • Set the section’s goals and objectives and ensure the cascading of such to the direct reports’ individual goals
  • Apply individual items of sector’s policies, procedures and processes and ensure adherence and implementation
  • Plan, develop and implement strategy for revenue assurance and development so as to meet agreed organisational performance plans within agreed budgets and timescales
  • Establish and maintain appropriate systems for revenue assurance & Business Processes
  • Monitor, measure and report on operational issues, opportunities and development plans and achievements within agreed formats and timescales 

Competencies  

  • Alternatively senior manager function in a related field might be considered.
  • International or experience in a MNC strong plus
  • Telecommunication or Audit/Consultancy firm (Big 4) in the field of Assurance strongly preferred
  • Contract Management experience strong plus
  • Billing invoicing and collections are a plus
  • Customer (Relationship) Management is a plus
  • Fluency in English and solid experience presenting to Senior and Executive Management

Professional Qualifications  

  • Master’s in Business Management or Finance, CPA, ACCA
  • Qualification in Revenue Assurance strongly preferred
  • A minimum of Five (5) years of experience in Revenue Assurance or a related field with at least Two (2) years in a manager role (note, RA is the main challenge, so someone coming from a billing/collection background without RA experience may not be considered).

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Job Title:   Head, Corporate Commercial
  
Summary 
  
The Head, Corporate Commercial will build and maintain strong communication channels with IHS current and potential customers, both externally and internally and also represent and promote IHS by maintaining a presence at professional events and networks. 
  
Personal Profile 
  
The Individual must be committed to understanding and exceeding our customers’ needs and developing trusted, reliable and collaborative relationships; consistently operating at the highest standards of good ethics. 
  
Responsibilities 

  • Identify and advise on appropriate contracts and transactions in alignment with the Company’s business and growth plans;
  • Ensure that all contractual documents of the Company are in compliance with applicable laws, guideline, regulations and best practice; 
  • Provide general legal support to other business segments of the Company;
  • Develop and maintain an enterprise-wide contract management system, framework contract templates, structures, policies, processes and templates;
  • Build effective working relationships with the various business functions within the Company, and with customers to support business decision-making and foster long term customer relationship.
  • Provide and interpret legal document/opinions/information;
  • Lead, deal with, and handle complex and significant legal matters that cut across the business segments of the Company;
  • Instruct, manage and support external counsel on legal matters that require external legal services (e.g. high value or complex deals and acquisitions);

 Competencies  

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
  • In-depth knowledge and experience of the telecommunication sector preferred;
  • Research skills required; 
  • Demonstrated success working in a fast-paced and high-performing, business results-driven corporate environment;
  • Demonstrated ability to think and decide quickly, and to communicate legal issues and solutions clearly and concisely.
  • Business-oriented and computer literate;
  • Experienced in negotiating commercial contracts and demonstrate ability to handle and close commercial and legal negotiations with minimal supervision;

Professional Qualifications 

  • LLM in Commercial Law/ MBA;
  • 10+ years of corporate commercial law experience in leading law firms in the country and/or corporate legal department. 

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Job Title:  Real Estate and Facility Manager 
  
Summary 
The facility manager is a job role that is responsible for making sure that buildings and their services meet the needs of the people that work in them. The Facility manager is accountable for services such as cleaning, security and parking, to make sure the surrounding environment is in a suitable condition to work. They also manage any building maintenance with things like heating and air conditioning, to maintain the working environment. 
  
Personal Profile 
The individual should have good working relationships with a wide range of people plus organized and excellent spoken and written communication skills, as well as customer and client management skills. 
  
Responsibilities 

  • Managing any refurbishments, renovations and office moves to make sure they all run smoothly and according to plan.
  • The Facilities manager is responsible for the general upkeep and maintenance of buildings to ensure that they meet health and safety standards and also the legal requirements.
  • They manage the cleaning, waste disposal, catering, security and parking, while managing the budgets and keeping records of all payments.
  • Facilities manager is also responsible for managing the office systems, which can often include the IT and office equipment.

 Competencies  

  • Managing any refurbishments, renovations and office moves to make sure they all run smoothly and according to plan.
  • The Facilities manager is responsible for the general upkeep and maintenance of buildings to ensure that they meet health and safety standards and also the legal requirements.
  • They manage the cleaning, waste disposal, catering, security and parking, while managing the budgets and keeping records of all payments.
  • Facilities manager is also responsible for managing the office systems, which can often include the IT and office equipment.

Professional Qualifications 

  • Bsc in relevant field
  • A qualification in engineering plus professional certification is an added advantage

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