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Senior Consultant - Cloud Solutions Specialist_Azure at MTN Nigeria

MTN NigeriaLagos, Nigeria Software Development
Full Time

MTN Nigeria is part of the MTN Group, Africa\'s leading cellular telecommunications company. On May 16, 2001, MTN became the first GSM network to make a call following the globally lauded Nigerian GSM auction conducted by the Nigerian Communications Commission earlier in the year. Thereafter the company launched full commercial operations beginning with Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. MTN paid $285m for one of four GSM licenses in Nigeria in January 2001. To date, in excess of US$1.8 billion has been invested building mobile telecommunications infrastructure in Nigeria. Since launch in August 2001, MTN has steadily deployed its services across Nigeria. It now provides services in 223 cities and towns, more than 10,000 villages and communities and a growing number of highways across the country, spanning the 36 states of the Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Many of these villages and communities are being connected to the world of telecommunications for the first time ever. The company\'s digital microwave transmission backbone, the 3,400 Kilometre Y\'elloBahn was commissioned by President Olusegun Obasanjo in January 2003 and is reputed to be the most extensive digital microwave transmission infrastructure in all of Africa. The Y\'elloBahn has significantly helped to enhance call quality on MTN network.

About the job

  • As Senior Consultant - Cloud Solutions Specialist_Azure Infrastructure, you have the technical expertise to work with MTNs most important managed customers.
  • You will lead, technical, and services resources to help customers realize digital transformation through cloud computing to achieve/exceed Azure Infrastructure consumption targets for related workloads for business accounts.
  • You possess both a high emotional intelligence with executive presence, the ability to engage with senior decision-makers to uncover digital transformation initiatives, and a passion for learning how Azure cloud services can deliver digital transformation.
  • You will develop and maintain an Azure Infrastructure expertise, able to identify projects, build a compelling business case, and drive the consumption project to production.
  • You will build and maintain relationships with customers, influence long-term strategic direction, and act as a trusted advisor driving engagement at the C-suite level with technology decision-makers.
  • You will help customers evaluate their cloud strategy, determine approaches to application and data migration and modernization, and recommend solutions that meet their requirements.

Key Deliverables

  • Pre-sales
  • Sales Planning
  • Business Development
  • Product Development
  • Governance and Risk Management

Education

  • Fluent in the language of the country with a basic command of English.
  • Minimum of 5-year tertiary qualification/ degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/ MIS/ Maths or a related field or equivalent experience
  • MBA/ Masters advantageous
  • Microsoft certifications are desirable: AZ 305

Experience:

  • Amazing Salesperson: Exhibits outstanding operational excellence - including monthly/quarterly forecasting, building a healthy pipeline, CRM entry and hygiene, opportunity management, and virtual team orchestration.
  • 7 + years of experience in enterprise sales.
  • Hunter: Experience driving new sales and customers using innovative approaches, leveraging joint partnership events, social selling (LinkedIn), and networking.
  • Technical breadth: Enterprise customer-level experience with cloud, hybrid infrastructures, productivity, and security technologies, and industry standards recommended.
  • Overachiever: Exceeds sales goals in an assigned sales territory.
  • Leader: Demonstrated sales and partner management experience with executive communications, engagement, and influence
  • Proficient: Experience with complex sales training and sales methodologies
  • Challenger mindset: Competes to win new market share.
  • Influential: Significant experience delivering persuasive presentations to business decision-makers

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