Capex Planning and Deployment Manager at Airtel Africa

Job description

1. Budgeting (Capex) for the Annual Operating Plan (AOP)

• Interact with the network team in HQ to define the network requirement in for form of BOQs as per the business needs
• Coordinates with the operations to insure timely submission of the capex requirement
• Work closely with the supply chain management, be aware of the contract, rate and price books in place, to price the defined BOQs and convert to CAPEX.
• Work closely with the finance team to validate the capex against business requirement

2. Capex Governance

• Insure opco compliance to the capex guidelines
• Handle the processing, documenting and tracking the exceptional request of capex outside of the capex cycle
• Reporting and analysis of capex spends.
• Oersee the capex execution, optimize the capex spending and validate the capex utilization reports issued by finance

3. Deployment: Execution of the AOP

• Getting deployment data from opco’s on periodic basis
• Helping out and assisting opco’s in solving bottle necks and issues hampering the rollout speed.
• Create Project Tracking Systems and ensure continual improvements in Business Model
• Insure the smooth execution of following Processes:

a. Deployment Workways

b. CWIP Management

c. SRN Guidelines

d. Inter-opco equipment movement guidelines

• Circulating periodically deployment reports to all stakeholders and Airtel Africa management

4. Partners and Vendors Governance

• Determine and Manage strict timelines and quality delivery in a multi-vendor environment with the major Partners (Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, ZTE) and vendors by periodic reviews with the partners/Vendors
• Development and Monitoring Partner scorecard

5. Inventory management

• Ensure Management of CWIP (Capital work in Progress) and SRN (Site Return Note) on airtel Africa level to keep the equipment aging in the warehousing within airtel guidelines
• Preparation/maintenance together with SCM of database showing the available inventory which can be utilized before any new ordering