Senior Manager Insights and Analytics at MTN

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Senior Manager: Insights and Analytics will be responsible for monitoring, tracking and analysing economic, public policy, legislative and regulatory trends to provide insights to support regulatory risk management.

RESPONSIBILITIES
The Senior Manager: Insights and  Analytics will be responsible for:

• Providing regulatory input into business strategy 
• Monitoring and analysis of pending legislation and regulations that may impact the company’s operations, and alerts management.
• Provide input into proposed regulatory policies/legislation ensuring MTN’s Group and operational interests are considered.
• Monitor and review regulatory issues including regulatory compliance across MTN Group.
• Provide detailed research and benchmarking for purposes of developing MTN’s position in response to legislative and policy changes from time to time.
• Driving industry initiatives through industry bodies and with industry stakeholders including.
• Develop and implement impact assessments of proposed regulatory frameworks on sustainability of business operations.
• Manage third party vendors for intelligence and insights.
• Support the Economic and Regulatory teams with monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting requirements. 

Key Deliverables

• Analyse economic, political, socio economic and regulatory trends to provide relevant insights and support MTN’s business strategy and market positioning.
• Consolidation, monitoring (first line) and reporting of Group wide Regulatory risks, issues and positioning.
• Build data and analytics-based insights to support a broader stakeholder engagement and communications programme.
• Develop data and economic analysis to complement legislative analysis.
• Create a central knowledge repository and adequate peer to peer review across MTN Group.

Role Dependencies

• In-depth understanding of the MTN business strategy 
• Effective stakeholder relationship management and experience in a regulatory environment
• Understanding of the Opco technology, business and regulatory context

QUALIFICATIONS
Education:

• Degree in   Economics, Business Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Analytics, or similar discipline
• Postgraduate Qualification
• MBA or master’s advantageous.
• Fluent in English and language of country preferable

Experience:

• Minimum of 7 Years’ experience in research, data analytics, economic/value modelling and/or report writing   
• Removed the part on SQL and programming requirements. 
• Experience researching, analysing & reporting, to make recommendations for future strategy for business units.
• Experience with programming & advanced Excel for data manipulation, extraction and modelling, word, and PowerPoint skills with high attention to detail and building dashboards for reporting.
• Experience working with large volumes of data/information.
• Experience importing and exporting data and ensuring regular cleansing to ensure data integrity.
• Experience with reporting tools, including Power BI & building automated reports.
• Experience providing advice and recommendations based on data analysis conducted.
• The ability to multi-task and report on regulatory and public policy analyses in agreed deadlines.
• High level of interpersonal skills and working to tight timelines and frameworks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to operate effectively in a team, contributing positively to team operations and working relationships.
• Experience in telecoms environment including “hands-on” regulatory compliance, strategy and or operational reporting is an advantage.
• Experience working in a medium to large organization.
• In depth experience and understanding of the telecoms and digital industries or an equivalent regulated sector. 
• Worked across diverse cultures and geographies is an advantage.

Competencies:

• Decision Quality: making good decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience and judgement; most solutions and suggestions turn out to be correct and accurate when judged over time; sought out by others for advice and solutions. 
• Problem Solving: Using rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers. 
• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has board knowledge and perspective; is future orientated; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans. 
• Organising: Can marshal resources (people, funding, material, and support) to get things done; can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal; uses resources effectively and efficiently; arranges information and files in a useful manner. 
• Process Management: Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done; knows how to organise people and activities; understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient workflow; knows what to measure and how to measure it; can see opportunities for synergy and integration where others can’t; can simplify complex processes; gets more out of fewer resources.
• Technical Learning: Picks up on technical things quickly; can learn new skills and knowledge; is good at learning new industry, company, product, or technical knowledge.
• Interpersonal Skills: Relates well to all kinds of people – up, down, sideways, inside and outside the organisation; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships.

Other:
Regional and international travel