Senior Manager

**Strategy input**:

- Advocate and evangelize the adoption of new technologies to enable MTN Digital Platforms and Services Business
- Develop goals, strategies, and plans needed to achieve the portfolios vision and build the capabilities to enable optimal delivery with input from relevant stakeholders.
- Align planning against the strategic intent of the company with agreed business outcomes within the portfolio, relevant IT Architecture Enterprise principles, key approved decisions and enterprise wide programs.
- Champion and rally the IT and CBU, EBU, Wholesale organisation around new Digital Technologies and educate these areas on the value of the portfolio to enable revenue generation, cost savings and business performance measurements.
- Recommend strategic business opportunities to deliver medium to long-term benefit and growth to the organisation and its customers.
- Translate the strategic vision into intelligence requirements and drive the fulfilment of these technical requirements.
- Ensure the enablement of a self-service philosophy
- Influence the technology roadmap defined by MTN SA Enterprise architecture and Group Technology.
- Investigate strategic IT trends (including initiating and executing relevant proof of concepts) and provides feedback regarding the impact and alignment required.
- Lead the strategy to adopt key new technologies to enable best in class real time digital platforms and services
- Conduct strategic analysis of MTN system strategies to ensure that the strategic technological direction aligns and supports MTN Group objectives.
- Maintain close relationship with architecture and technical delivery teams to ensure that architecture and technical work items are developed according to defined architecture principles and patterns
- Leverage best practice knowledge and experience to define technical solutions that enable online business capabilities, ensuring the reuse of existing components

**Tactical Planning and Operations**
- Provide operational leadership to the team, in line with business requirements, technology standards and best practices within the business intelligence function.
- Drive best practice, continuous improvement and innovation, continuously refine the digital platform and services needs of the assigned business units
- Utilise technology to optimise the data dissemination
- Enable business units to track performance reporting at a business unit level
- Identify and support initiatives to identify redundant / duplicated reporting
- Support and proactively drive system optimisation research.
- Influence and manage SLA’s with Infrastructure and Network support to ensure high levels of availability and limit redundancy.
- Engage with other operations to extract potential benefits and efficiencies achieved at a technical implementation and/or process layer.
- Ensure SLA’s are in place for timely production data and dashboard update delivery with business and other data users.
- Ensure delivery of (authorised) projects according to the prioritised project list
- Refine the information, reporting, and analytical needs of the organisation.
- Define and establish management systems, processes, policies and procedures for effective team functioning.
- Ensure the team performs the necessary analysis, design, modelling and documentation tasks necessary to pass MTN IS governance forums
- Provide consultation on critical business and IT problems, researching and identifying enabling technologies based on customer requirements and defined business processes
- Participate in the design and implementation of an enterprise architecture based on business requirements and information technology strategies and trends.
- Partner with business leaders and peer-level managers to assess the technological cost and impact of recommended changes, help clarify priorities and coordinate cross-organizational consortia where common needs have been identified.Identify, interpret and guide future development by using the appropriate technology to provide solutions using the available technologies

**Financial Management**
- Draft, present and manage Capex and Opex budgets relating to functional activities
- Assist in the forecasting, planning and development of the portfolio’s budget and business plans for IS
- Give input into budgets that will enable delivery of area of expertise to the relevant business unit.
- Manage and optimise departmental budget, ensuring all expenditure is in line with the agreed budgets.
- Ensure that Yearly CAPEX Plans are put in place and that each team member provides proper input and information into these
- Support the creation of the business case for initiatives and projects in functional areas
- Assist in tracking infrastructure budgets related to the support of business area platforms, processes and initiatives
- Assist in ensuring contract information is updated centrally and drive with the IS Commercial teamAdhere to a non-inflationary or escalating