Key Responsibilities:
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Act as the single Service Assurance point of contact for the Customer at Customer Operations Group Headquarter for all CS Core Domain.
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Coordinate with all the Services Assurance Delivery Centers and Field Teams as part of regular governance.
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Lead operational customer meetings for CS Core at SME level.
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Assist in Network Emergency Supervision by coordinating.
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Monitor and track SW Upgrades/ Updates – Airtel Group & OEM Engagement, planning, training of GDC & OPCO resources including coordination.
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New Feature Implementation approver-– Airtel Group & OEM Engagement, planning, training GDC & OPCO resources.
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Capability Development Management for Multi-vendor and Multi-technology modernized network install base
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CS Core, BSC, RNC NPO KPIs mgmt. for all MVMT installed base
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Weekly/Monthly Core NPO Governance with customer at Group HQ, Global Delivery Centre and with CS Core team in multiple countries.
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Proactive tracking of the system capacity utilization, impact risk, closure action plan agreement and governance escalation wherever needed with OPCO and Airtel HQ SME
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Maintain, audit and compliance actions of the network HLD, LLD at all times
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GDC NPO Quarterly Network Audit assurance and associated action closure
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Compliance of Preventive Maintenance Procedures from OEMs for all nodes
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Monthly BISP Compliance for domain and action closure
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Weekly Critical Network Change Management approver including Emergency CRs.
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Network New Node Acceptance approver
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Critical Spares availability tracking and escalation to Airtel ND/ HQ.
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Approve RCA analysis for Emergency/Critical Outages for Submission to customer.
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Drive Customer Satisfaction through the established CSAT survey mechanisms and by providing services that are fully compliant with the SLA/KPI.
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Establish Escalation management according the contractual terms.
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Facilitate critical Service Assurance action/recovery actions in close relationship with all Service Assurance delivery functions.
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Ensure operational readiness across all stakeholders in new project and new technology introduction.
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Represent requirements for project-specific processes & tools.
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Pro-actively support network performance, change management, business opportunity identification as well as in the end-to-end lessons learned process.
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Ensure legal and/or contractual activities to be performed locally are in close cooperation and within the setup of the respective delivery center.
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Foster relationships, build customer trust, manage difficult situations, and negotiate conflicts with a technical focus.
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Perform Scope management against the contractual Terms &Conditions and identify upscope activities for commercial negotiation
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Monitor audit and associated actions completion at periodic interval.
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Understand SLA/KPI and its impact on Rewards and Penalty and drive improvements with Operations and performance teams.
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Control and own monthly Improvement plans.
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Regularly monitor and add actions in the Improvement plan based on regular governance with GDC, NPO, Field Force, Operational Teams, Domain SMEs and customer Escalations.
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Identify service issues, driving improvements through the delivery organizations in coordination with Central Operations Director and his team.
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
- Make it happen with passion attitude whilst developing end empowering those supporting you
- Customer focused – preferred experienced with customer exposure
- Experience in delivering in a multicultural environment, across different countries or organizations
- Bachelor in Engineering
- ITIL knowledge with a focus on Incident, Change, Problem and Performance Management
- Decisive and able to influence others for cooperation
- Presentation and negotiation skills
- Broad Multi-Vendor Product knowledge and detailed knowledge in his domain
- Experience in Maintenance, Network Operations and/or Technical Support activities
- PMO/PMI and Six Sigma certification desirable.
- Experience in Network Improvement initiatives and Operational Excellence desirable.
- For the SME to generate success in this role, she/he must fulfill:
- Detailed knowledge of his/her domain.
- Experience of delivering services, Customer facing role preferred.
- Experience as Technical Lead /Operations Manager in Managed Services for a major telecommunications provider an advantage, but similar experience will be taken into consideration.
- Broad knowledge across multiple technologies (e.g. 2/3/4G, transmission, IP , CS/ PS core etc.).
Business Performance Oriented with experience of negotiating KPIs and penalties.
Matrix management experience, with service delivery from multiple locations.
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