Manager: Site Acquisition & Deployment Support at Airtel

About the job

• To ensure all Sites locations required by the business are acquired on time and within budget, prepare relevant reports weekly, contract scoping & management of Site Acquisition vendors and plans in line with management guidelines aimed at providing direction to achieving overall business goals.

Responsibilities

• Good knowledge and understanding of the contract management and ensure governance meeting periodically with vendors for smooth operation of the Site Acquisition vendors.
• Ensures that Site Lease vendors portfolio is properly and accurately managed.
• Ensures that SAQ Contractors portfolio is properly and accurately managed.
• Give impute to legal unit for contract drafting for SAQ and Site Lease vendors.
• Manage minor dispute resolution arising from acquisition and refer complicated ones to legal department for closure.
• Ensure that new acquisitions are done within approved pricing schedule.
• Ensure that renewals of operational sites are done within the agreed escalation as per contract.
• Ensure weekly report of all Site Acquisitions activities and set targets submitted.
• Ensure all CAPEX and OPEX as per Acquisition required by the business is captured with Networks.

Qualifications

• Graduate & Post-graduate degrees in Estate Management, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, professional qualification (NIESV, MNSE, COREN, PMP etc.)
• 8-10 years in FMCG & Telecoms.

Experience & Skills

• Proficiency in use of Microsoft Excel, Word & PPT Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Excel & PowerPoint in particular) Analytical thinking.
• Application of knowledge.
• Data analysis.
• Research & data gathering.
• Reporting.
• Pricing.
• High level of commitment, teamwork, achieving results, good interpersonal skills
• Result oriented, analytical & leadership skills.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to synthesize large amounts of data, summarize key concepts and articulate appropriately.
• Attention to details.
• Business insight.
• Communication.
• Organizational awareness.