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What You’ll Do

Role purpose:

This position is responsible for the formation and execution of the technology strategy including budget planning & management and championing digital transformation initiatives in line with the overall strategy of the organization.

Key Accountabilities And Decision Ownership

Technology Strategy and Innovation

• Define and evolve the enterprise technology strategy, ensuring strong alignment to business objectives, digital transformation goals, and long‑range planning
• Translate technology innovation into clear business outcomes, including efficiency gains, revenue opportunities, resilience, and customer experience improvement
• Ensure innovation initiatives align with enterprise architecture, security, regulatory, and ethical standards, embedding “secure and ethics by design” principles
• Own the innovation and technology strategy roadmap, prioritising initiatives, managing investment trade offs, and reducing duplication across the technology landscape

AI Strategy and Delivery

• Define and execute the enterprise AI strategy and roadmap, prioritizing high-value use cases that align with business objectives, customer experience, digital transformation, and approved investment plans
• Establish robust AI governance, ensuring all AI solutions comply with enterprise architecture, data privacy, cybersecurity, regulatory, ethical, and responsible-AI requirements
• Lead end-to-end AI delivery and value realization, overseeing pilots through to scaled deployment, tracking benefits such as efficiency, revenue, customer experience, and risk reduction, and continuously optimizing the portfolio

Planning

• Responsible for Long Range Planning; tracking budget and signature programs to be adopted. This should be in-line with the organization’s short- and long-term strategy
• Responsible for effective CAPEX and OPEX spend within the IT and Billing portfolio

Customer and Stakeholder management

People Management

• Develop internal innovation capabilities, skills, tools, and ways of working that foster a culture of experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement
• Encourage and nurture people growth through upskilling and reskilling opportunities

Performance Management

Who You Are

Must have technical/professional qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree Accounting or Engineering degree or with relevant background
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in similar environment
• Experience specific to GSM & Mobile Money products and services, how they are implemented and how they affect other network elements
• Strong analytical skills and business acumen
• Build and maintain relationship with key stakeholders in the value chain
• Telecommunications experience would be advantageous
• Project knowledge and experience would be advantageous

Core Competencies, Knowledge And Experience Knowledge

• Strategy formulation and execution
• Agile ways of working
• People Management
• Digital Transformation
• Change Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• Artificial Intelligence

Skills

• Strong leadership
• Good communication
• Excellent interpersonal
• High level negotiation
• Managerial and budgeting skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent planning and organizing skills
• Business acumen
• Conflict resolution skills

• Define and evolve the enterprise technology strategy, ensuring strong alignment to business objectives, digital transformation goals, and long‑range planning
• Translate technology innovation into clear business outcomes, including efficiency gains, revenue opportunities, resilience, and customer experience improvement
• Ensure innovation initiatives align with enterprise architecture, security, regulatory, and ethical standards, embedding “secure and ethics by design” principles
• Own the innovation and technology strategy roadmap, prioritising initiatives, managing investment trade offs, and reducing duplication across the technology landscape
• Define and execute the enterprise AI strategy and roadmap, prioritizing high-value use cases that align with business objectives, customer experience, digital transformation, and approved investment plans
• Establish robust AI governance, ensuring all AI solutions comply with enterprise architecture, data privacy, cybersecurity, regulatory, ethical, and responsible-AI requirements
• Lead end-to-end AI delivery and value realization, overseeing pilots through to scaled deployment, tracking benefits such as efficiency, revenue, customer experience, and risk reduction, and continuously optimizing the portfolio
• Responsible for Long Range Planning; tracking budget and signature programs to be adopted. This should be in-line with the organization’s short- and long-term strategy
• Responsible for effective CAPEX and OPEX spend within the IT and Billing portfolio
• Develop internal innovation capabilities, skills, tools, and ways of working that foster a culture of experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement
• Encourage and nurture people growth through upskilling and reskilling opportunities

• Strong leadership
• Good communication
• Excellent interpersonal
• High level negotiation
• Managerial and budgeting skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent planning and organizing skills
• Business acumen
• Conflict resolution skills

• Bachelor’s degree Accounting or Engineering degree or with relevant background
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in similar environment
• Experience specific to GSM & Mobile Money products and services, how they are implemented and how they affect other network elements
• Strong analytical skills and business acumen
• Build and maintain relationship with key stakeholders in the value chain
• Telecommunications experience would be advantageous
• Project knowledge and experience would be advantageous