Senior Consultant - Technical Programme Management.ICT Center of Excellence at MTN

Responsibilities

• MTN has been contracted as one of seven companies to deliver the RT29 programme, as set out by the National Treasury. The RT29 programme is centered on Token Identifier (TID) rollover, auditing, implementation and support of smart electricity and smart water metering technology.

The Senior Consultant: Technical Program Manager will:

• Provide technical input and controls for the sign offs of the solutions during the sales and pre-sales phase.
• Ensures that all contributors in the cross functional team have provided input to new bids for a predictable and controlled implementation.
• Provide technical leadership during the project implementation and support phases to ensure project success and illustrate confidence and control back into MTN’s client base.
• Provide sound commercial, finance and legal input to new bids and during the project implementation, taking full accountability for project targets i.e. solution robustness, financial, client experience, timelines and performance of capability partner/s.
• Effectively manage conflict and bring alignment between MTN, our partners and customers.
• Provide strong leadership and support to cross -functional teams within MTN to ensure all deliverables are executed in the most effective and efficient manner.
• Facilitate customer steering committees to report back on key progress items, risks and items for resolution
• Ensure all quality controls are being adhered to from order to cash to enable MTN to maximize its revenue opportunity.
• Provide meaningful and routine reporting to MTN as it pertains to overall progress of the programme
• As the trusted advisor during the project and support phases, work with the customers to maximize their opportunity in guiding them on upselling or cross-selling to maximize their leverage of the RT29 programme.
• Drive effective and effective collaboration between all parties required to ensure success of the programme i.e. MTN teams, partner teams, customer teams and vendors.
• Cultivate winning relationships with MTN internal teams and its capability partners.
• Drive routine and adhoc tasks and sub projects effectively and with speed to maximize MTN’s opportunity.
• Maintain a knowledge base of information gathered across projects. Ensure that this is effectively communicated back into the project teams for MTN and its partner/s to continuously improve on each engagement.
• No direct reports immediately, however in the future the role is expected to provide exceptional Line Management and leadership to extract the best out of the team.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the various possible solution designs currently in place at municipalities and an understanding of how to migrate or integrate with these.   

Qualifications
 
Education

• Minimum 4-year Technical / commercial tertiary degree
• Technical certification preferred
• Post graduate diploma/ degree advantageous

Experience

• At least 10 years’ experience in technical project management including:
• Leading and managing multiple complex projects, delivering on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Leading a specialized sales team, pre-sales team and a technical project team.
• Business development
• Financial performance management, within the smart utilities' technology area
• Experience with finance funding models and escrow principles).
• Managing partner relationships and driving financial and other performance from metrics from the partners.
• Skilled in developing partner strategies, Project P&L management, financial analysis, and contract
• Advanced knowledge of IoT technologies in a large Telco.
• Advanced knowledge of IoT connectivity mediums such as LORA, SigFox, NBIoT and other.
• Well experienced in working across diverse cultures and across geographies in South Africa