Manager, Commercial Planning at 9Mobile

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.

Principal Functions

• 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 analysing of all KPIs
• Product income comparison with set standards on predetermined ARPU's, determining reasons for variance with a view of addressing reasons for disparities on a monthly basis
• 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 Head, Pricing and Commercial Planning.

Educational Requirements

• First Degree or equivalent in a Numerate discipline.
• Post-graduate/professional qualification in a related field will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of Six (6) years relevant  work experience, with at least three (3) years in a supervisory role as advantage.
• Professional experience in commercial,finance control operations and cost management.
• Prior work experience in Telecom Industry will be an added advantage.