Manager: Home Technology
2025-08-07T16:45:48+00:00
MTN Zambia
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FULL_TIME
Lusaka
Lusaka
10101
Zambia
Telecommunications
Management
2025-08-14T17:00:00+00:00
Zambia
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Under the supervision of the Senior Manager Home, below are the Key Job Responsibilities;
- Lead the formulation and execution of the Opco Home Technology strategy across network deployment, field operations, and in-home managed services, in alignment with Group and market priorities;
- Develop a forward-looking technology roadmap that ensures capacity scalability, service innovation, and long-term infrastructure resilience;
- Oversee FTTH and FWA rollout plans, ensuring geographic expansion is technically viable, commercially prioritized, and operationally feasible;
- Implement streamlined, digital-first processes for device provisioning, asset tracking, and reverse logistics, enabling faster activations and efficient inventory management;
- Foster cross-functional collaboration with commercial, regulatory, and support teams, ensuring seamless execution of bundled propositions and product innovation;
- Embed operational excellence through rigorous performance, quality, and security standards across all technology touchpoints, from network to customer premises;
- Drive proactive risk management and compliance initiatives, safeguarding network integrity, data privacy, and adherence to health, safety, and environmental requirements;
- Provide strategic guidance to Field Deployment & Maintenance teams, ensuring high-performance execution in service activation, fault resolution, and SLA adherence, while driving operational consistency across regions;
- Oversee the full execution of FTTH rollout and reverse logistics operations, ensuring quality network expansion, efficient device provisioning, and robust recovery processes aligned with cost and service benchmarks;
- Ensure technical readiness and timely service provisioning through effective system integration, process automation, and streamlined inter-team workflows for zero-touch service delivery;
- Track and govern key operational KPIs—including network uptime, fault restoration time, device performance, and NPS, while using data insights to pre-empt service issues and improve field performance;
- Champion digital tool adoption across the home technology function, including field service applications, rollout monitoring, and remote diagnostic tools, to enhance operational agility and responsiveness;
- Drive continuous improvement programs focused on service availability, installation quality, field productivity, and customer onboarding efficiency to support business scalability and service excellence;
- Collaborate with Home Commercial and Customer Operations teams to ensure infrastructure readiness and technical support for new product launches, bundle rollouts, and cross-functional initiatives;
- Manage home technology budgets in coordination with Finance, ensuring optimized CAPEX/OPEX utilization, cost control, and effective vendor performance management;
- Serve as the key liaison with Group Technology and strategic partners, ensuring timely localization, testing, and rollout of firmware updates, platform enhancements, and system integrations;
- Enforce compliance with local regulatory, safety, and security requirements across all field and in-home service operations, maintaining high standards of operational integrity;
- Lead capacity-building programs including field technician training, SOP rollout, and knowledge toolkit deployment to ensure standardized delivery and continuous upskilling across teams;
- Establish robust governance and reporting mechanisms to monitor progress, escalate issues, and enforce accountability across field operations, managed services, and logistics streams;
- Conduct regular status meetings, providing updates to stakeholders and address any concerns;
- Provide input in strategic meetings when required;
- Offer input for proposals related to changes in initiatives, policies, or procedures that could impact home technology delivery or service standards;
- Manage and resolve escalations that have an impact on critical path of service delivery;
- Escalate issues that will result in significant delays, scope changes, employee/customer or cost impact if not resolved;
- Provide input into all projects initiated;
- Identify and document key risks, issues and dependencies and set mitigation actions;
- Prepare documentation required for sign-off / making decisions regarding tactical changes;
- Monitor performance against agreed KPIs and their compliance to SLAs and reverse SLAs;
- Ensure execution in alignment with divisional strategy;
- Monitor performance of home technology services and adjust strategy and actions to deliver targets
- Report on a periodic basis relating to progress made within the function and in accordance with the measurement metrics set by the organization;
- Report on an ad hoc basis on specific projects, as required;
- Any other responsibilities or tasks as maybe assigned by management.
Candidate Requirements
- Grade 12 Certificate with 5 credits or better of which English and Mathematics are a must;
- Minimum of a 4-year tertiary qualification in Telecommunications, Computer Science, Electronics, or a related field which are ZAQA certified;
- A minimum of 5-8 years of relevant work experience in broadband technologies (FTTH/FWA), network rollout, or home technology operations or related field, preferably with at least 4-5 years of leadership experience within telecommunications industry;
- Proven leadership in managing large-scale, end-to-end broadband projects, including network planning, infrastructure deployment, field execution, and post-activation optimization;
- Strong experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams across field operations, rollout execution, logistics, and managed services;
- Hands-on experience with FTTH/FWA deployments, including planning, field execution, and quality assurance;
- Strong familiarity with managed services ecosystems, including in-home Wi-Fi, remote CPE control, and customer-facing platforms.
Lead the formulation and execution of the Opco Home Technology strategy across network deployment, field operations, and in-home managed services, in alignment with Group and market priorities; Develop a forward-looking technology roadmap that ensures capacity scalability, service innovation, and long-term infrastructure resilience; Oversee FTTH and FWA rollout plans, ensuring geographic expansion is technically viable, commercially prioritized, and operationally feasible; Implement streamlined, digital-first processes for device provisioning, asset tracking, and reverse logistics, enabling faster activations and efficient inventory management; Foster cross-functional collaboration with commercial, regulatory, and support teams, ensuring seamless execution of bundled propositions and product innovation; Embed operational excellence through rigorous performance, quality, and security standards across all technology touchpoints, from network to customer premises; Drive proactive risk management and compliance initiatives, safeguarding network integrity, data privacy, and adherence to health, safety, and environmental requirements; Provide strategic guidance to Field Deployment & Maintenance teams, ensuring high-performance execution in service activation, fault resolution, and SLA adherence, while driving operational consistency across regions; Oversee the full execution of FTTH rollout and reverse logistics operations, ensuring quality network expansion, efficient device provisioning, and robust recovery processes aligned with cost and service benchmarks; Ensure technical readiness and timely service provisioning through effective system integration, process automation, and streamlined inter-team workflows for zero-touch service delivery; Track and govern key operational KPIs—including network uptime, fault restoration time, device performance, and NPS, while using data insights to pre-empt service issues and improve field performance; Champion digital tool adoption across the home technology function, including field service applications, rollout monitoring, and remote diagnostic tools, to enhance operational agility and responsiveness; Drive continuous improvement programs focused on service availability, installation quality, field productivity, and customer onboarding efficiency to support business scalability and service excellence; Collaborate with Home Commercial and Customer Operations teams to ensure infrastructure readiness and technical support for new product launches, bundle rollouts, and cross-functional initiatives; Manage home technology budgets in coordination with Finance, ensuring optimized CAPEX/OPEX utilization, cost control, and effective vendor performance management; Serve as the key liaison with Group Technology and strategic partners, ensuring timely localization, testing, and rollout of firmware updates, platform enhancements, and system integrations; Enforce compliance with local regulatory, safety, and security requirements across all field and in-home service operations, maintaining high standards of operational integrity; Lead capacity-building programs including field technician training, SOP rollout, and knowledge toolkit deployment to ensure standardized delivery and continuous upskilling across teams; Establish robust governance and reporting mechanisms to monitor progress, escalate issues, and enforce accountability across field operations, managed services, and logistics streams; Conduct regular status meetings, providing updates to stakeholders and address any concerns; Provide input in strategic meetings when required; Offer input for proposals related to changes in initiatives, policies, or procedures that could impact home technology delivery or service standards; Manage and resolve escalations that have an impact on critical path of service delivery; Escalate issues that will result in significant delays, scope changes, employee/customer or cost impact if not resolved; Provide input into all projects initiated; Identify and document key risks, issues and dependencies and set mitigation actions; Prepare documentation required for sign-off / making decisions regarding tactical changes; Monitor performance against agreed KPIs and their compliance to SLAs and reverse SLAs; Ensure execution in alignment with divisional strategy; Monitor performance of home technology services and adjust strategy and actions to deliver targets Report on a periodic basis relating to progress made within the function and in accordance with the measurement metrics set by the organization; Report on an ad hoc basis on specific projects, as required; Any other responsibilities or tasks as maybe assigned by management.
Grade 12 Certificate with 5 credits or better of which English and Mathematics are a must; Minimum of a 4-year tertiary qualification in Telecommunications, Computer Science, Electronics, or a related field which are ZAQA certified; A minimum of 5-8 years of relevant work experience in broadband technologies (FTTH/FWA), network rollout, or home technology operations or related field, preferably with at least 4-5 years of leadership experience within telecommunications industry; Proven leadership in managing large-scale, end-to-end broadband projects, including network planning, infrastructure deployment, field execution, and post-activation optimization; Strong experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams across field operations, rollout execution, logistics, and managed services; Hands-on experience with FTTH/FWA deployments, including planning, field execution, and quality assurance; Strong familiarity with managed services ecosystems, including in-home Wi-Fi, remote CPE control, and customer-facing platforms.
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