About this role
Why Airtel Africa?
At Airtel Africa, we act with passion, energy, and a can-do attitude. Innovation with an entrepreneurial spirit drive us. If you like “ordinary”, then we are not for you.
We champion diversity. We anticipate, adapt, and deliver solutions that enrich the lives of communities we serve. we roll up our sleeves to win with our customers.
By choosing Airtel, you choose to be part of a winning team. All this in addition to a brilliant opportunity to build a career in your field of expertise, across our different operating companies in Africa.
Airtel Africa is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and remain fully committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Educational Qualifications & Functional / Technical Skills
- Bachelor of Business Administration or any equivalent qualification.
Relevant Experience (Type of experience and minimum number of years)
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in sales in Corporate & SME
- 2 years of in-depth Sales and Marketing experience digital services comprising corporate mobility solutions, communications platforms, IoT, networking and connectivity solutions, internet services, managed network services or other related fields.
- At least 2 years at middle management level handling independent businesses.
Competencies
- Category understanding the competition landscape within the OPCO – players, the market size, regulations, technologies used devices offered, spectrum used etc.
- Technology Understanding: Needs to understand solutions across Business Enterprise Products & Services. Should be able to guide and drive cross-functional teams
- Resilience and ability to deliver against stretch targets
- Strong entrepreneurial spirit
- Able to motivate and encourage the team to ensure sales targets are met
- Able to plan and execute team route plans and evaluate performance daily
Other requirements (Behavioral etc.)
- Able to operate in a performance driven organization
- Good organizational and teamwork skills
- Self-motivated, enthusiastic, energetic
- Attention to detail
- Confident, assertive with good negotiation skills
- Excellent time Management Skills
- Customer-centric
- Flexible and ability to travel on urgency basis
- Consumer knowledge