🇳🇬 Job Vacancies @ Nokia Nigeria – 3 Positions

Nokia is a global leader in the technologies that connect people and things. With state-of-the-art software, hardware and services for any type of network, Nokia is uniquely positioned to help communication service providers, governments, and large enterprises deliver on the promise of 5G, the Cloud and the Internet of Things.

Serving customers in over 100 countries, our research scientists and engineers continue to invent and accelerate new technologies that will increasingly transform the way people and things communicate and connect.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Enterprise Account Manager
2.) MEA Large Projects Start Up Lead
3.) Cost and Progress Manager

Job ID: 2200000FU1
Location: Lagos
Department: Sales
Category: CX Customer Experience

The Team You'll be Part of

• The Customer Experience organization provides a common interface to customers including account and relationship management, acting as the voice of the customer internally and creating demand across our business groups.
• While bringing deep understanding of local markets for our customer, the CX organization ensures strong alignment between sales and delivery teams.
• Within Customer Experience organization, Nokia Enterprise sales team is addressing industrial and public sector customers and positioning and selling Nokia's communications solutions to them.

What You Will Learn and Contribute to
As a Sales Professional with technical and business understanding of the telecoms solutions, responsible for generating orders and revenues by selling Nokia’s solutions to Enterprise customers in West, Central and East Africa, and as part of our Enterprise Southern Africa sales team, you will:

• Act as a main contact point for Enterprise customers in West Africa.
• Identify relevant Nokia products and/or solutions and develop an offering to meet customers’ needs at an optimal profitability for Nokia.
• Develop an understanding of customers’ key business drivers and use this knowledge for creating profitable business opportunities for Nokia while contributing to digitalize local industries.
• Act as a relationship manager, sales person and business developer in the account.
• Fulfill Nokia’s process for presales offer lifecycle management and quarterly forecast.

Your Skills and Experience
You have:

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Engineering, Telecommunications, Business or a related field.
• Minimum of 4 years account management, products, solutions and services sales experience in the communications & IT industry particularly with the industrial sector.
• Proven track record in meeting and exceeding sales targets within assigned territories.

It would be nice if you also had:

• Experience and knowledge of the Energy market (Oil & Gas, Mining, Power and Water Utilities) in one West African country at least.
• Adaptability to respond resourcefully to multiple demands, shifting priorities and new challenges and work constructively under pressure.
• Nokia end-to-end solution portfolio knowledge & natural interest to keep up to date on technological and market evolution as well as competitors’ activities
• Efficient with CRM tools (CRM / Salesforces.com for pipeline / funnel management) and MS tools (Excel, PowerPoint and Word).
• Consultative Selling & Customer Business Understanding
• Relationship Management & ability to identify all stakeholders and understand their communications needs and feedback
• Sales & commercial contract Negotiation experience.

What We Offer

• Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job ID: 2200000CX9
Location: Lagos
Department: Project Management
Organization: MN Mobile Networks

The Team You'll be Part of

• As start-up lead, we are  managing  large project teams, Acting  as primary project  interface to the customer during  ramp phase to ensure good customer satisfaction, Sharing project experience and best practices, knowledge of project management processes, tasks  and tools with other project managers.
• Conduct thorough risk management for all project risks and opportunities
• Ensure that the project meets all objectives for quality and looks continuously for quality improvement and customer satisfaction
• Our Business Group is a leader in wireless mobility networks and associated services. With more than 3.500 patent families essential for 5G we have a strong 5G portfolio and are a front runner in open and virtualized radio access networks (O-RAN and vRAN).
• Are you passionate about solving problems?

As part of our team, you will:

• Secure first time right for project launch
• Support fast ramp up for new customers/countries complex projects
• Strict adherence to Nokia Mode of operation & process
• Deliver a multiple business groups / business units’ scope for MEA customers
• Prepare and execute project planning.
• Deployment activities follow up

Your Skills and Experience
You have:

• 15 years+ experience in Management position
• Project /Program management experience in Mobile networks, large rollout, Full turnkey, and Site acquisition
• Project financial experience
• Good experience in Middle east & Africa
• CxO level experience.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job ID: 2200000GRB
Location: Nigeria
Department: Project Management
Organization: MN Mobile Networks

The Team You'll be Part of

• Mobile Networks, our Business Group is a leader in wireless mobility networks and associated services.
• With more than 3.500 patent families essential for 5G we have a strong 5G portfolio and are a front runner in open and virtualized radio access networks (O-RAN and vRAN).

Job Description

• Performs proactive cost management in managing project cost baselines, cost controls, subcon/supplier’s relations in relation to PO/Invoices, compliance, processes, procedures, cost savings initiatives, management interaction, estimation, analysis, and reporting.

Job Responsibilities & Competencies

• Develops and implements appropriate Nokia Project Management methodology, processes, tools, improvement, and efficiency programs to ensure all customer / internal projects are delivered according to contractual obligations, within forecasted costs, time and required quality based on adequate mode of operation.
• Ensures governance practices are in line with adequate Nokia project management (PM) and according to BG specificities to ensure visibility of operational KPIs and performance / efficiency.
• Supports Customer Delivery Managers (CDM) and their teams during pre-sales and delivery phases by implementing adequate practices.
• Ensures the availability and application of proper tools in customer / internal projects including availability of needed training and support in use phase.
• Drives continuous appropriate Nokia project management processes and tools improvement by collecting requirements including applicable loop back to global process / tool owner.
• Ensures availability of project / program executive level information to CDM and their teams and appropriate geographical organization by establishing / using reporting solutions.
• Creates and implements proactive cost management practice supported by engagement into operational reviews, action planning and follow-up.
• Supports / coordinates resource demand activities inside customer team, ensuring proper forecast and information availability.
• Develops PM capability management with appropriate external and internal certification portfolio.
• Supports PM community in capability and competence management activities including planning and implementation of PM capability framework.
• Coordinates PM competence development and certification program in respective BG / market.
• Drives PM knowledge management and best practice / lessons learned sharing within PM community.
• Develops and manages PMO communication and communities across global and market organizations.
• May act in Cost and Progress Management assignment: Performs supporting role in proactive progress and cost control for services in customer contract(s) for a large and / or more complex project with moderate / low risk.
• Supports Customer Project Management in end-to-end cost management including monitoring, reporting, analyzing, and managing the project execution progress against time, milestones, cost-related performance indicators and invoicing schedule agreed in the customer contract.
• Supports Customer Project Manager in project closing to ensure financial closure of the project.
• The term “customer project” refers generally to all forms of Nokia customer contracts, projects with a definitive start and end, and programs as collections of projects managed together for business benefits which may contain an ongoing operations business.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in Project Management / Commercial Management / Finance & Control.
• Achieved advanced skills and knowledge within a specific professional discipline involving the integration of theory and principles with organizational practices and precedents.
• Typically requires 4-6 years relevant experience and/or a Bachelor's Degree.

What We Offer

• Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer
• Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:
  • One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
  • Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
  • Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
  • LGBT+ equality & best place to work by HRC Foundation
• At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people.
• Nokia’s employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, gender identity, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
• We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.