Senior Global Platforms Manager Jobs Vacancy in South Africa at MTN Group

Job Title: Senior Manager – Global Platforms
South Africa , Innovation Centre

Job Mission

• Develop global product strategy, portfolio and roadmap/Go-to-market strategy for Global Platforms(which includes Cloud Services, M2M and Locap Exportable Products), across various service models e.g. IaaS, SaaS, Naas, SECaaS, and Machine to Machine

KPA Duties

Key Tasks: • Define Cloud Services, Local exportable products & Machine to Machine Go-to-market strategy focusing on innovation and revenue streams, working hand in hand with product managers of MTN Nigeria and South Africa • Coordinate with the different areas of the company for the procurement, implementation and monitoring services, especially with technical areas • Lead a team of global experts and virtual teams around the world that are tasked to identify strategic partners for delivery of new products and services that can be implemented across MTN OpCos for the Services portfolio • Define the global partner and vendor ecosystem for solutions: Iaas, Naas, Caas, SEaas, M2M • Manage complete product lifecycle for global platforms from feasibility assessment and new product development to subsequent product evolution and enhancement • Define pricing of solutions, including internal OpCo pricing and business case • Define SLAs and customer-specific reporting of this service, both internal (OpCos) and external end customers • Produce documentation of service: marketing manuals, annexes to contracts (Service Description, Manual of Operations, Pricing, Terms of Service), training documentation and business presentations • Evaluate and assess solutions to meet clients needs and determine which deployment models best captures the business essence of the client Supervisory / Leadership / Managerial Tasks: • Lead a team of developerdSet goals and objectives for direct reports, monitor progress and maintain motivation • Manage performance of team. • Possess the authority; presence and integrity to command respect from colleagues and from external contacts • Planning and organising • Foster Team and independent work • Foster cross functional collaboration between IT, products, technology , Sales and marketing to deliver ENTERPRISE services Role Dependencies: • Negotiate with services programmes and providers to enhance the product porfolio • Group enterpriseupport of the ENTERPRISE strategy and other significant business unit • Group IT, Group Technology, Group Products and Services • Multinational Companies and Strategic partnerships.

Requirements

• BSC IT/Computer Engineering • MBA/Business qualification preferred
• 10+ years overall IT experience with a good technical background, of which 3+ years in services in a marketing role • Very good understanding of Network Protocols • Experience in leading Application development on platforms like Amazon, Rackspace, Google Apps Engine, Sierra Wireless, Jasper wireless Knowledge: • Excellent understanding of Cloud Services • Understanding of IT managed service market • Understanding of key verticals
• Strategic thinking • Commercial acumen and financial competency • Commercial skills • Partner management

Reference No:IRC96746
Position Type: Permanent
Affirmative Action: Y
Salary: -
Additional: Behavioural qualities: • Able to motivate and inspire • Presence and charisma • High energy levels • Leadership and persuasion

Applications close 2013-01-07

To Apply; http://www.mtn.com/Careers/Pages/Vacanciess.aspx