Ericsson, the world’s largest supplier of telecommunications equipment, supplying many companies in Africa has a vacancy for Regional Manager: Regulatory Affairs (West Africa).

The successful applicant who will be based in Lagos will cover Ericsson's West African hub from Cameroon to Sierra Leone and will be reporting to the Director of Regulatory Affairs, sub-Saharan African Who is based in Nairobi).

Job requirements for the position are as follows:

Key Responsibilities:
Development creation and development of the role.
Development of Ericsson’s policy on regulatory issues within the region.
Development of a regional strategy for the promotion of Ericsson policy;
Development and maintenance of close internal relationships with key staff, in particular local account and country managers.
Development and maintenance of a close working relationship with the regulatory departments and other influential staff in our customer operators.
Critically, development of a close working relationship with policy makers and regulators across the region, and other interested institutions;
Marketing Ericsson’s regulatory views within the region. This will include speaking at conferences and raising of own personal profile

Required skills:
Minimum of a bachelor’s degree with substantial experience within the telecoms industry, part of which must have been in a supervisory capacity.
Strong commercial knowledge of the telecoms supply chain
Understanding of network topography and spectrum issues desirable.
Familiarity with the application of economics is essential.
Ability to work independently.
Ability to take own initiative.
Ability to make presentations
Ability to travel, sometimes outside West Africa.
 

Method of Application

Interested applicants should please send Cvs with a short covering letter to
Imn.human.resource@ericsson.com

On or before the 31st of March 2008

Only short listed applicants will be contacted.