Team Leader - Johannesburg, South Africa - MTN Nigeria

MTN Nigeria

Verified Company

Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Mission/ Core purpose of the Job:
To micro manage the site acquisition rollout function of the turnkey vendor by providing support and processing requirements within reduced time frames in the respective region and to assist turnkey vendors in securing BTS sites in the shortest time frame possible, by identifying gaps and analysing short comings and assisting the Vendors to streamline their processes and to inevitably bring about the permitting and leases within reduced time frames

Context:

Highly competitive environment with customer focus as a key differentiating factor
Rapidly changing and highly regulated environment
Rapidly changing and developing technology environment
Customer demand for speedy responses, improved performance and cost savings
Project driven environment
High risk and pressurised environment due to organisations' increasing reliance on IT infrastructure and governmental agencies for permitting
Within the legal, regulatory and commercial environment of South Africa e.g. Contract law; NEMA legislation; FICA legislation; Local Authority legislation
Compliance to company policy and procedures
Dynamic nature of national and international trends and practices

Key Performance Areas:
Core, essential responsibilities / outputs of the position (KPA's)

Task Complexity:
Planning and Delivery

Manage and understand the Turnkey Vendor's scope and what is needed from a site acquisition perspective in order to achieve the targets within the stringent time frames.
Identify streamlined procedures that need to be adhered to internally and actively ensure that such procedures are managed accordingly.
Identify gap analysis and assist the Turnkey Vendors in finding innovative ways to secure sites in the shortest lead time possible
To meet with key stakeholders on a regular basis to build relationships in order to achieve faster turnaround times within various governmental departments and Corporate property owners.
Deal with all administrative requirements for the project effectively and efficiently
To attend all pertinent management meetings and build reports for line management to pick up on trends etc.
Guide Turnkey Vendors when negotiating to ensure compliance with MTN's policies and procedures.
Receive lease agreements from Vendors and loading leases onto applicable MTN database
Ensure accuracy of rental information and other pertinent information on lease agreements
Ensuring permits obtained for applicable sites are correct and correlate with what is being built.
Supervise all turnkey needs and to ensure no delays in the project are experienced
Build relationships with various stakeholders to ensure effective processing of leases and permits
Maintain a database of all sites secured; Rental amounts; Escalation; rental start date; permits obtained and whether they expire or not; other terms in the lease that are nonstandard. this can be done by completing NIMS accurately and effectively.
Assess and analyse permitting data and ensure compliance thereto as well as Lease data verification. To ensure that such vendors keep in line with the applicable Key Performance targets that have been set in relation to rentals as well as Permitting. To assist in fast tracking permits and rentals in order to achieve MTN's overall objective which may be amended from time to time.
Do a hand over all legal documentation after project is SAF (site acquisition finished) to the Property Leasing department for their management of the site
Identify dependencies across the work streams that may negatively impact on each other and take appropriate action to mitigate or eliminate the eventual possible impact

SITE ACQUISITION

Review and assess all documentation received in relation to Lease Agreements that are in line with the SLA's drawn up with such vendors,
Sign Lease Agreements as per Delegation of Authority
Identify discrepancies to this documentation and inform the Vendor to get amended accordingly
Analyse data and be able to clearly identify which projects are falling behind the KPI's set with the vendor and highlight to Senior Management
Identify when lease agreement has been amended and not compliant with the MTN standard lease agreement terms.
Identify what requirements for site acquisition are needed for the different types of telecommunication infrastructure that MTN deploys (i.e Greenfield; Fibre; Rooftop's; DAS; 3rd party towers)within the applicable Local and Provincial Authority and to understand the NIMS process and projects and ensure that NIMS data reflects and stores the accurate permits and leases for a particular project.
Identify discrepancies against MTN generic lease agreements and rentals that are applicable, per region, per type of site

PROPERTY AND 3rd PARTY SITES PER REGION