Job Title: Technical Manager
Organisation: Sinfa Uganda Limited
Duty Station: Gulu, Uganda
Reports to: General Manager
About Sinfa:
NFT Consult, a leading HR Consultancy firm, seeks to recruit for it valuable client, Sinfa Uganda Limited. NFT Human Resource Solutions are customer tailored per industry requirements and are geared towards increased cost savings, process improvement leading to improved efficiency and effectiveness yet simultaneously strengthening quality and control of resources.
Job Summary: The Technical Manager holds full responsibility and accountability for the technical and technology strategy, projects, and network operational activities of the company across all of its business areas and jurisdictions. You will be joining the company at a key stage of its development, and will be expected to contribute strongly and rapidly to enabling the next stage to be reached.
Areas of activity will include Networks (Wireless, Fibre, WDM, Ethernet, IP, MPLS, Voice), Datacentre, Managed Hosting , Network Operations, Corporate IT Network and Services, OSS/BSS and Systems Development, and broader Research & Development / Projects.
The successful candidate is likely to have extensive managerial experience across a number of these areas, with deeper technical knowledge and leadership in the Ethernet/IP/MPLS domain. He/she will be commercially aware, capable of seeing the product potential in a technology or service, and in making that potential a reality.
A dynamic leader, they will inspire others with their energy and optimism and will be keenly aware of the need to move and execute at pace. A doer, you will be able to work through issues at the frontline where needed. You will be the champion of customer needs within the technical area, have a heightened sense of customer service and delivery, and demonstrable evidence of having created and developed this ethos within past teams that you have managed.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Technical:
- Offer strategic vision, evaluation, and recommendation for the ongoing development of the business, and achieving and retaining leadership in the sectors and markets which SINFA operates in, for the company’s products, services, and infrastructure
- Manage and/or support design, development, rollout, implementation, installation, co-ordination, sales, and support, of SINFA network, services, technologies, and products.
- Make sure that clarity exists at all levels regarding objectives and that strategies are delivered, ensuring teams have the competencies to do so or are guided/coached/developed to achieve same.
- Promoting and implementing continual innovation and process improvement within fast paced environment.
- Working to aggressive schedules and ensuring effective delivery at all times.
- Ensure and achieve optimal performance of nationwide network operations.
- Co-ordination, selection, evaluation, and management of suppliers and contractors
- Developing and implementing business development strategies that generate new business opportunities for services deployed, including new partnerships and product development.
2. Management:
- Management, motivation and development of a number of growing technical teams to include Networks, NOC and Voice Teams.
- Recruitment and ongoing management and support of new staff.
- Drive initiatives in the management team and across the organization that contribute to long-term operational excellence and business development.
- Contribute to short and long-term organizational planning and strategy.
- Ownership of individual P&L / Cost Centres across the technology areas – manage costs, revenue and overheads to ensure cost effectiveness and sustainable business development.
- Deliver all relevant reporting to Senior Management Team and board as required and be a proactive contributor to broader company objectives.
- Administration and other duties as required in undertaking this role, or as may be assigned from time to time.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: The applicant should possess experience and skills reminiscent of the aforementioned duties and responsibilities.
Key Personal Competencies:
- Be a Self-starter
- Lateral thinker, seeing multiple possibilities in situations
- Innovative, choosing and delivering non-traditional solutions to problems
- Fast-paced, happy working at speed and taking decisions to ensure momentum is maintained
- Collaborative, capable of working with wide range of people at higher and lower levels in an organization
- Be highly ambitious, setting high standards for own and team performance
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates should visit the web link below and create a profile on the NFT Consult website by entering their e-mail addresses. Please visit web link below and click Apply now if convinced you have the job requirements. The applications/CVs should be prepared in English and submitted in either MS Word or PDF format will be considered.
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