A&A MEA Presales Manager - Business Support Systems at Nokia Nigeria

Nokia is a global leader in the technologies that connect people and things. With state-of-the-art software, hardware and services for any type of network, Nokia is uniquely positioned to help communication service providers, governments, and large enterprises deliver on the promise of 5G, the Cloud and the Internet of Things.  Serving customers in over 100 countries, our research scientists and engineers continue to invent and accelerate new technologies that will increasingly transform the way people and things communicate and connect.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: A&A MEA Presales Manager - Business Support Systems

Ref No: 17000008L6
Location: Lagos    

Job Description

• Pre-Sales role includes development and support of new business for A&A portfolio and pre-sales activities by providing clear definition of the solution capabilities to meet customer requirements and commercial proposal for the same.
• The role includes RFP/RFI/RFQ for A&A deals from understanding the requirements, identifying the respective resources, structure the Offer - technical and financials, cost estimations, SOW preparations and overall competitive analysis working with Sales teams in market units, global business units, domain teams within AA GBC.
• The person has to ensure solution value proposition is clearly communicated in the customer engagements and captured and articulated in offer proposals during Offer Development stage. In addition the role needs to ensure for non standard and complex deals our solution scope is fully optimized.
• This role requires specialist good knowledge of telecom networks, commercial and technical expertise in BSS (Business Support Systems) which is one of the product lines in A&A portfolio.

Key Objectives

• In addition to offer development for A&A portfolio (BSS), this role will be involved in helping to create a pipeline of opportunities working with sales teams for various accounts and in responding to opportunities involving a combination of Nokia and also 3rd party vendor products wherever required to complete the solution.

Solution / Business Development:

• Is able to bring out the value proposition for solutions of BSS portfolio of A&A which includes OCS, DSC-PCRF, Billing Mediation, Invocing, CRM, Customer enagegment, and SPS solutions.
• Excellent understanding of BSS E2E solutions as per TMForum Mapping, SOA architecture, eTOM Modeling.
• Provide subject matter expertise and manage pre-sales activities for SDP (products and services).  Provide direct interface to and engage BU’s and PLM’s for MEA market, account or case.
• Ensures key messaging is reflected in offers and supports differentiation from competition.
• Participate in managing and reporting the opportunity pipeline with GBC team as well as sales
• Provide customer facing support including customer presentations, bid defenses, product demonstrations, etc.

Solution Strategy:

• Develop a solution strategy in conjunction with BSS Business & Product Units, Customer Account Teams and Delivery teams.  The strategy will include the agreement with all stakeholders the portfolio push and how this can be implemented.

Roles & Responsibilities