Chief Technology Officer (CTO) - Airtel Africa at Ericsson Nigeria

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) – Airtel Africa at Ericsson Nigeria

Ericsson Nigeria

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) – Airtel Africa at Ericsson Nigeria. Please make sure you read the job requirements before applying for this position.

Ericsson is a world-leading provider of telecommunications equipment & services to mobile & fixed network operators. Over 1,000 networks in more than 180 countries use Ericsson equipment, & more than 40 percent of the world’s mobile traffic passes through Ericsson networks. Using innovation to empower people, business & society, we are working towards the Networked Society, in which everything that can benefit from a connection will have one. At Ericsson, we apply our innovation to market-based solutions that empower people & society to help shape a more sustainable world.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Chief Technology Officer (CTO) – Airtel Africa

Req ID: 650931
Location: Lagos

About this Opportunity

  • In a bid to reinforce customer centricity, Ericsson is recruiting a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) do drive its business with Airtel Africa.
  • The role aims to drive sales by supporting the KAM organization with business development and technical specific sales activities, securing that Ericsson is perceived as a preferred partner. The CTO works on strategic level, identifying leads and opportunities.
  • The CTO is responsible for all networks engagements with Airtel in Africa.

What You Will Do

  • Be the trusted partner to all Airtel Africa CTO organization.
  • Ensure alignment with the customer on the technology directions.
  • Influence Customer’s vision & strategy, drive Ericsson involvement in creating customer visions, strategies & requirements
  • Deliver customer value, provide insight on how new trends will affect customer business
  • Identify business opportunities, identify customer business needs through consultative engagements
  • Support to drive opportunities to deals, conduct in-depth business focused discussions with customer
  • Drive Knowledge Transfer, perform coaching and mentoring activities to support internal competence build up
  • The authority of the CTO, in general, shall be sufficient in order to make all necessary decisions regarding the account solutions strategy.
  • The role reports to the head of Networks Solutions for CU South and East Africa. The role in addition has a dotted line to the key account manager of Airtel in Africa.

Relationships and Interfaces

  • Customer CTO, Deployment, Planning and Optimization teams.
  • Airtel Africa Key Account Manager, Account managers
  • Ericsson Networks Solutions Central functions
  • Ericsson’s operations team, Sourcing and Supply units.

You Will Bring

  • Education: University Degree in Business or Engineering, Master’s Degree would be advantageous or equivalent working experience.
  • Minimum 5 years’ experience of Technical Sales engagements
  • Extensive experience in network planning, engineering and performance
  • Deep Domain-experience: Radio, IP, Transport
  • Organizational Change and Transformation skills
  • Portfolio expertise in area of responsibility
  • Customer Insight
  • Selling and presentation skills.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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To apply for this job please visit jobs.ericsson.com.