Career Opportunities at Airtel Nigeria

Job Type: Contract
Business partners: (Huawei, ZTE, and Ericsson )

Job Description/Responsibilities
We are looking for a suitable candidate to fill the role of Network Operations on a contract basis. The role holder will be responsible for:

• Resolution of all HW/SW issues related to the RAN (2G/3G/4G).
• Audit Network configuration to ensure that all the nodes are running with latest software and resolution of all inconsistencies.
• Analyze technical traces to isolate technical issues on RAN.
• Supervise and conduct acceptance test for all new nodes to be integrated into the network
• Supervise RAN software roll-out after first node implementation
• Track Network performance (Various KPIs and Network Availability).
• Ensure implementation of preventive activities by MS Team in order to improve network performance.
• Provide guidance to the MS team during hardware and software change implementation
• Supervise all special events projects like improvement drives, festival target optimization (Christmas, EID & New Year etc).
• Provide support for all RAN related issues coming from Customer Service Delivery
• Provide technical support to the regions on all RAN related issues.
• Provide regular updates on the state of the network
• Sign off of all network outages
• Provide Emergency/Monthly/weekly network report
• Monitor Network node availability
• Ensure adherence to SLA where necessary ensuring Airtel interest is not jeopardized at all times

Requirements & Skills

• Bachelor's degree or HND in Engineering or any related applied science field.
• At least 5 years Networks Operational experience in GSM environment.
• Technical knowledge of Network Elements (Switching Systems, RAN, MPBN, and SIGTRAN)
• Basic troubleshooting skills on Network Elements.
• Experience working within different network vendor area, such as ZTE, Huawei, NSN, Ericsson etc.
• Good Team spirit
• Action-oriented
• Attention to details

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Job Description

• Looking for a suitable candidate to fill the role of Voice Product Executive within the Marketing Function.
• The role requires deep understanding of consumer behavior, social trends, technology changes and market / consumer requirements.
• It incorporates a combination of these perspectives to generate business opportunities.

Key Responsibilities
Voice Revenue:

• Leverage data and market research to get insights into consumer behavior and preferences, and drive future programs and promotions
• Track usage pattern to devise growth strategies
• Keep track of customer life-cycle to drive ARPU growth

Rate Management:

• Develop business cases with a keen eye on impact of new products on rate.
• Keep track of customer trends impacting significant changes to CR.

New Product Development:

• Launch youth targeted products to drive voice revenue and MoU growth.
• Develop new products and initiatives for trade in line with benchmarking and transfer of Best Practices across Zones
• Project manages technical development of products.

Reporting:

• Develop and analyze daily, weekly and monthly reports, Zone wise and at pan OPCO level to understand customer value sweet spot and opportunities for growth.

Requirements
Work Experience:

• Minimum of 3 - 5 years experience in a marketing position, with a focus on product development.
• Experience of Telecommunications Industry or FMCG marketing environment
• Able to operate in a performance driven organization
• Affinity with and technical knowledge of the latest technologies and services used within the industry and affiliated industries
• Excellent Data analysis and Excel skills

Required Skills:

• Strong analytical and strategic skills
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Sets high personal standards and is goal oriented
• Excellent communications skills, both orally and in writing
• Excellent presentation skills

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Job Type: Contract
Business partners: (Huawei, ZTE, and Ericsson )

Job Description/Responsibilities
Looking for a suitable candidate to fill the role of Regional Optimization Engineer on a contract basis. The role holder will be responsible for:

• Test, identify and troubleshoot problems in the field with operator’s networks as well as with data collection equipment, where necessary, in order to meet applicable RF engineering standards set forth as per Quality Assurance procedures.
• Coordinate with data processing Engineer(s) and other members of the project team daily, to ensure data integrity, proper data transfer and management of routes..
• Proposes indicators for the continuous analysis and follow-up of radio voice and data quality of service, generates proper alarms and recommends solutions when needed.
• Proposes preventive and/or corrective actions for the provisioning of acceptable QoS for voice and data services.
• Follows-up and ensures the existence of sufficient capacity in the radio network (including on the BSC-BTS and the air interfaces).
• Researches and implements solutions for continuous service improvement in respect to parameter settings and configuration.
• Investigates and recommends proper solutions for customer complaints; validates proposed solutions related to parameter modification on the radio network.
• Follows corrective actions based on the internal reports of coverage analysis.
• Follows-up on general Radio access technology trends relating to radio optimization activities and assists the RAN Research & Studies unit in the update of Radio engineering guidelines accordingly.
• Optimize the radio network to achieve targeted KPI’s including statistics collection, monitoring, reporting, analysis, troubleshooting, frequency & parameter changes, system feature implementation in order to improve network performances.
• Recommend optimization and parameter changes needed to maximize Network capacity and throughput.
• Provide Optimization solutions and recommend RF changes to improve network quality. (Antenna configuration, frequency modification, traffic capacity upgrade etc...)
• Monitor the before and after performance of sites after upgrades (tilts, antennas changes, etc) and fix any issues.
• Troubleshooting coverage, signal quality, low throughput, and handover failure by adjusting antenna azimuth, tilt or height, transmit power, and define neighbouring cells.
• Perform cluster optimization as per agreed KPIs.
• Perform Daily worst cell analysis based on key network performance indicators.
• Track Network performance (Various KPIs and Network Availability).
• Provide technical support to the regions on all radio frequency

Requirements & Skills

• Bachelor's degree or HND in Engineering or any related applied science field.
• At least 5 years Networks Operational experience in GSM environment.
• Technical knowledge of Network Elements (Switching Systems, RAN, MPBN, and SIGTRAN)
• Basic troubleshooting skills on Network Elements.
• Experience working within different network vendor area, such as ZTE, Huawei, NSN, Ericsson etc.
• Good Team spirit
• Action-oriented
• Attention to details