Specialist, Devices and OEM Partnership at Lumos

Job Description

• Reports to and maintains ongoing dialogue with VP Marketing and provides updates periodically about operational performance and achievement of key strategic and financial targets.
• The role-holder is responsible for leading the sourcing, testing, certification and commercialization of Lumos compatible devices in Nigeria
• Manages 3rd party relationships to ensure best fit for Lumos, and best commercial terms to drive partnerships portfolio
• Use devices and OEM partnerships to drive aggressive sales of Lumos across Nigeria
• Is pro-active in understanding industry trends and best practice as well the competitive landscape on productive uses for Solar
• Development Focus – Should be a regional key opinion leader in devices and accessories and a contributor to the device eco-system.
• Strong focus on team development/mentoring to ensure knowledge transfer and succession planning.

Job Responsibilities

• Understand key customer needs and industry trends competition, Technology, etc..,) for the portfolio.
• Manage portfolio of all devices and accessories including vendors and stock
• Monitor and analyze accessories and device performance trends from financial, competitive and operational perspectives; identifying what accessories are driving performance, in what geographies and at what price, feed this data back to the sales force.
• o Feeding future buying trends back to the Director and relevant cross-functional team members
• Develop a rolling 12-month plan for the devices and accessories portfolio
• Initiate and negotiate new partnership opportunities with device/accessories vendors/partners and OEMs, accessories by relevance, including the commercial terms, working with Legal and business leadership
• Liaise with Technical, Sales, Legal and leadership for alignment to achieve functional and commercial goals and objectives
• Works closely with product design and development terms to ensure innovation pipeline delivers on emerging technology and evolving consumer trends
• Identify and recommend future and short term in delivering capability that may be required by the products in line with present and future opportunities

Educational Qualifications & Functional / Technical Skills
Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business or related field.

Relevant Experience:

• Product management experience, scoping, commercialization, NPD/Launch and product lifecycle will be an added advantage
• Preferred candidate would have significant devices experience from a telecommunications organization or from an OEM
• 5-6 years Devices/product and /or marketing experience.

Other Requirements (Behavioral, etc.)

• High degree of professionalism and maturity
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, tight timelines, multiple priorities, and demanding customers, in a fast-moving, constantly changing environment
• Ability to build strong working relationships, internal and external to the organization
• High level of discretion and attention to detail