Deployment Manager at Airtel Zambia

REPORTING TO THE NETWORKS DIRECTOR, THE MAIN DUTIES ARE:

1. To ensure Sites & Erlangs deployment as stipulated in Annual Operating Plan (Financial& Strategy)

• Achieve budget approval to all Project Costs and ensure monitoring process for remote infrastructure implementation/integration
• Create Project Tracking Systems and ensure continual improvements in Business Model
• Evaluate all Service Level agreements, partner with all stakeholders
• Operate as single point of Contact for all projects and Programs impacting on Network
• Ensure areas that are controlled by Network impacts on gain in market share
• Ensure innovative resource planning

2. Speed of Execution/Roll outs & Installation and Commissioning of Core Network (Customer)

• Ensure that the speed to market exceeds competition and first time resolution (FTR)
• Provide plans and set up process of increasing network coverage in strategic revenue generating locations and Manage strict timelines/quality delivery in a multi-vendor environment.
• Provide plans to Improve network coverage in Collaboration with business & planning team
• Establish systemic process for the supervision of installation of new Network Devices with future capacity plan

3. Logistics and Project Management

• Establish departmental process to align to PMI process for all projects and enforce strict adherence
• Ensure Management of CWIP (Capital work in Progress) to deliver on equipments not be obsolete in warehousing

4. Regulatory and Statutory Compliance

• Ensure all necessary documentation for regulatory compliance is adequate and readily available
• Ensure all statutory permissions required for deployment have been approved and documented

5. Partner and Supply Chain Management

• Establish procedure for improving rollout and maintenance vendor/subcontractor performance
• Ensure and monitor timely release of site request (SR) and Service Order with Tower Company and SP
• Provide platform for seamless sharing of sites with other Tower Company for effective and speedy deployment
• Review site-sharing activities with the telecom vendors and ensure that all the sites are inside the rental brackets and required permitting (environmental etc.)
• Collaborate with SCM to validate the requests, and raise the purchase of new hardware based on standards
• Coordinate with SCM for Warehousing & Dispatching of network element to specific locations
• Track and Follow-up on material delivery for the network rollout (Local & imported)

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