Senior Business Specialist

Responsible for coordinating and developing centres of excellence (COE) to serve the Company across domains that are best served at scale, including managed cloud and security, managed connectivity, managed IoT, digital business marketplace, portfolio companies and other managed services. The role is a group role and will therefore include support for the 8 African operating companies of the Company group. The role will be multidisciplinary and will require a self-starter who is not afraid of rolling up their sleeves and getting work done themselves. This work could range from business case development, strategy development, coordinating programmes across multiple stakeholders, and developing compelling power point documents to convey complex concepts and opportunities. Qualifications: MBA Years of experience 10 years Must come from Professional Services and Consulting Firms  The ideal candidate will have a broad understanding of enterprise managed services across a number or domains and have experience in delivering effective managed services across multiple African markets. The intention is to drive standardization across markets to foster re-usability, speed of deployment, leveraging shared platform investments across the group to ensure the most efficient product strategy and operating models. This is complicated as the operating companies are very different and have different constraints, and the candidate should be able to drive consensus through collaboration, robust analysis and persuasion and not through command and control. The candidate should have excellent knowledge of tools such as Excel PowerPoint and should have some consulting experience.