Fresh Jobs at Blue Label Telecoms

Job Description
JOB PURPOSE

• We are looking for a Senior Manager - Product and Delivery with 15-18 years of experience to lead product and delivery functions across multiple squads. Reporting directly to the Head of Product Orchestration Design and Delivery, the role requires managing high-level strategic initiatives, ensuring cross-functional collaboration, optimizing resource utilization, and handling complex project delivery challenges. The Senior Manager will oversee end-to-end program delivery, align resources with business objectives, and drive operational excellence

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Strategic Program Leadership
• Lead strategic group-level programs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives. Craft a strategic roadmap that anticipates industry trends, identifies opportunities for innovation, and ensures the organisation's competitive position.
• Executive-Level Collaboration
• Collaborate directly with senior executives to translate business strategies into actionable project deliverables
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Build strong partnerships between product, development, QA, business analysis, and scrum masters, fostering cohesive, high-performing teams
• Create a culture of open communication and cooperation, ensuring that technology initiatives are closely aligned with the broader business objectives by breaking down silos, promoting cross-functional teamwork, and facilitating a shared understanding of how technology can drive organisational success
• Delivery Governance
• Set and enforce standards for delivery, managing resource allocation, timelines, and dependencies. Contribute to the maturity agile methodologies and the continuous improvement of development workflows
• Budget and P&L Management
• Oversee the financial health of programs and projects, managing budgets, Profit & Loss (P&L), and ensuring alignment with financial goals
• Monitor and report on financial performance metrics
• Resource and Capacity Planning 
• Support leadership by providing insights into current and potential resource capacity, budget utilization, and optimization
• Ensure efficient allocation of resources across teams to maximize productivity and meet delivery objectives
• Be proficient in overseeing the performance of the entire department, ensuring that its activities align with the organisation's strategic goals and objectives
• Define key performance indicators for the team, establish performance expectations, and implement mechanisms for regular evaluation
• Drive a high-performance culture, foster collaboration among team members, and provide strategic guidance to achieve departmental and organisational goals
• Risk and Issue Management
• Proactively identify risks and constraints, resolving issues to ensure successful program outcomes
• People Leadership
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of project managers, product leads, and other delivery professionals.
• Alignment of IT with Business Goals
• Ensuring that the IT strategy is closely integrated with and supports the overarching business objectives
• Identify opportunities where IT can contribute to business success, enhance operational efficiency, and drive innovation
• Risk Management
• Assess and mitigate risks associated with the organisation's technology strategy and architecture
• Be well versed in industry regulations, security standards, and potential challenges that may impact the business
• Develop strategies to address risks, ensuring compliance, and implementing measures to safeguard the integrity and security of technology systems.
• Personal Capability Building
• Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team and beyond in the function
• Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media

Job Requirements
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

• Manages Complexity
• Optimizes Work Processes
• Ensures Accountability
• Collaborates
• Business Insight
• Cultivates Innovation
• Decision Quality

EDUCATION

• Matric
• Relevant Bachelor's Degree

EXPERIENCE

• 15-18 years in product management, program delivery, or a related field, with a proven track record of leading large-scale initiatives

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Job Description
JOB PURPOSE

• We are looking for a Senior Product Owner with 10-12 years of experience to lead strategic, group-level initiatives at Blue Label Telecoms. This role demands strong product management expertise, a strategic mindset, and leadership skills. The ideal candidate will work closely with senior executives, manage a product team, and drive the product strategy to deliver tangible business value in a fast-evolving market

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Strategic Leadership
• Define and execute product vision aligned with business objectives across various internal squads, subsidiaries and group-level initiatives
• Transitions team's skillset with the support of the Human Capital Business Partner to enable and support platform and tool adoption per the departmental roadmap in line with strategies defined with CTO
• Through effective inspirational leadership, facilitate the creation of accountable, full service teams who understand and strive to meet the needs of all stakeholders.
• Product Roadmap Ownership
• Develop, prioritize, and manage the product roadmap to meet dynamic market needs, ensuring work is directionally aligned with business value and company goals.
• Value Driven
• Align and prioritize product roadmap based on value case and ROI
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Work closely with stakeholders, senior executives, and cross-functional teams to gather requirements, align on product strategies, and ensure smooth execution
• Market Analysis & Strategy: Analyze industry trends and competitor strategies to identify opportunities and drive innovation within the product offerings
• People Management: Indirectly Lead, and mentor, a delivery squad, fostering a collaborative and performance-driven environment.
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Communicate effectively with key stakeholders to ensure alignment on vision, progress, and deliverables
• Risk and Challenge Management: Identify potential challenges and risks, strategize solutions, and ensure the successful delivery of product initiatives
• Outcome-Driven Approach
• Focus on delivering value, ensuring that each initiative drives measurable business outcomes and enhances customer satisfaction
• Job Requirements
• BEHAVIOUAL COMPETENCIES
• Business Insight
• Ensures Accountability
• Cultivates Innovation
• Manages Complexity
• Plans and Aligns
• Balances Stakeholders
• Drives Engagement
• Collaborates
• Customer Focus
• Instills Trust
• Optimizes Work Processes
• Situational Adaptability
• Tech Savvy

EDUCATION

• Matric
• Relevant Bachelor's Degree

EXPERIENCE

• A minimum of 10-12 years of experience in product management/ownership, with proven success in leading large-scale, cross-functional initiatives

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Job Description
JOB PURPOSE

• The role will be focused on performing professional accounting work including but not limited to bill payments full function, debtors book management and financial analysis.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Financial Accountant Responsibilities
• Bill Payments full function including Invoicing
• Bill Payments preparation of Profitability report
• Preparation for internal and external audit packs and supporting documents
• Debtors book management including Bill Payments and Private Utility debtors
• Stand in for Financial Accountant and Debtors controller in either of their absence (business continuity)
• Allocating of bank receipts for debtors across the board
• Assist with process improvement and tightening of control environment.
• Maintaining Internal controls files and Supporting documentation
• Training on analysis of trends and commentary
• Reviewing aggregator rates in detail and addressing any issues with operations
• Financial analysis
• Any other Ad-Hoc duties which arise from time to time to meet business requirements

Job Requirements
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

• Ensures Accountability
• Manages Complexity
• Financial Acumen

EDUCATION

• Matric
• Bachelor's Degree in Finance / Accounting / CIMA

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 4 years' experience in similar role

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Job Description
JOB PURPOSE

• The Data Architect is responsible for designing and implementing the overall data architecture to support business processes and decision-making. This role involves creating data models, developing data strategies and data dictionaries, and facilitating data flow between systems and ensuring data integrity, security, and scalability across the organisation.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Data Architecture Design
• Design and develop the overall data architecture, including data models, data flows, and data dictionaries
• Guide and assist with the development of data integration strategies in conjunction with the Integration COE
• Create, maintain and apply logical and physical data models to support business requirements using databases, data warehouses, data lakes and data pipelines
• Apply data policies, standards, guidelines, and best practices for data management involving data quality, security, privacy and governance
• Data Strategy and Planning
• Develop, implement, and communicate data strategies that form part of the BLTS Strategy to support business goals and objectives
• Collaborate with business leaders to understand data needs and translate them into technical requirements
• Collaborate with data analysts, data engineers, data scientists, and other stakeholders to understand the data requirements and provide data solutions
• Create and maintain a data architecture roadmap to guide the organization’s data initiatives
• Research and evaluate new data technologies and trends to support data innovation and business growth
• Guiding Data Integration and Management
• Guide and assist data integration solutions to ensure seamless data flow across systems
• Guide and assist ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to ensure data is accurately and efficiently transferred between systems
• Provide guidance to ensure data quality, consistency, and security throughout the data lifecycle including version control
• Guide and assist IT and database teams to implement and maintain data systems and infrastructure
• Data Governance and Compliance
• Establish and enforce data governance policies, procedures, standards and best practises for data quality, security, and privacy
• Ensure data architecture complies with regulatory requirements and industry standards
• Monitor data usage and access to ensure compliance with data governance policies
• Articulate the benefits and advantages of the proposed solutions in a way that resonates with clients
• Customer Centricity
• Coordinates contact with Business Partners as needed to assist with support activities
• Establish and maintain a positive professional relationship with Business Partners and customers
• Maintain regular and timely communications with Business Partners and customers
• Maintain strong working relationship with customers and Business Partners
• Work with customers and Business Partners to execute consistent service processes throughout the organization
• Establish a single point of contact for issue resolution and change management
• Drive customer centricity in levels of the organization
• Work Collaboratively
• Build a culture of integrity, respect and understanding across the organisation
• Recognise outcomes which resulted from effective collaboration between teams
• Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication, and collaboration across the organisation
• Facilitate opportunities to engage and collaborate with external stakeholders (Retailers and POS Companies) to develop joint solutions
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment
• Job Requirements
• BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
• Ensures Accountability
• Managing others
• Communicating goals
• Allocating and managing resource
• Tech Savvy
• Attention to detail
• Customer focused
• Evaluating problems
• Processing details and information
• Building relationships & Trust

EDUCATION

• Matric
• Bachelor's degree or in computer science, information systems, or related field

EXPERIENE

• At least 5 years of experience in data architecture, data modelling, data engineering, or related field
• Proficient in SQL and one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Scala)
• Experience with various data platforms and tools (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB, Hadoop, Spark, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Knowledge of data warehousing, data lake, and data pipeline concepts and architecture
• Knowledge of data governance, data quality, data security, and data privacy principles and practices
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills · Strong documentation skills and proficient with using MS Office Tools
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment