Internal Vacancy Announcement

OpCo: Ooredoo Group

Job Title: Assistant Director, Technology Economics

Division: OG Technology
Employment Type: FTE

Job Description

Purpose

The Technology Economics is a group-level team under the Group Technology organization
which looks after the corelations of technology variables with financial and commercial aspects,
and the implications they have in the overall business performance. The technology Economics
team is a source of information to the teams in the Group and the OPCOs responsible to create
technology budgets, Technology architectures and Roadmaps. This team follows up the
evolution of the Technoeconomic metrics over time to diagnose deviations from efficient
performance according to the needs of different Ooredoo markets and at the end contributes to
meet the targets and milestones for effective Technology performance management. It works
either remotely or in-country on specific goals mutually agreed with the Group and the OPCOs.

Provide group level expertise to develop and maintain Technoeconomic metrics which become
the benchmarks to drive efficiencies in technology budgets, architectures, roadmaps in the
Group and OPCOs. Those benchmarks also become inputs to Technology, Finance, Strategy,
Sourcing and Commercial functions in the OPCOs and the Group in the process of making
decisions related to technology strategic investments.

The role holder maintains close contact with Technology teams at the operating companies and
the Group, and works closely with other members of finance, strategy, sourcing, and commercial
teams to drive the creation and use of the Technoeconomic metrics.

Role Profile.

• Supports the definition Economic Metrics related to technology that allows the group to
track and compare efficiencies in the OPCOs.
• Collects the info to create and maintain Benchmarks and dashboards of
Technoeconomic metrics among OPCOs as input for Strategy, Finance and Commercial
functions in the Group and across OPCOs to drive the Group Strategy.
• Based on the Technoeconomic metrics provides inputs to the teams in charge of
defining the Group technology strategies in order to achieve better efficiencies.

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 • Makes the calculations to translate into dollar value the impact of different business
drivers used for creating Budgets and plans in the OPCOs like: Keeping Lights On,
Resiliency, Regulatory Obligations, Modernization, New Services, Strategic projects,
Network Experience, etc.
• Interact with vendors to understand new techniques and strategies for improving
Techno Economic metrics and ultimately Technology Efficiencies.
• Supports the standardization of Techno Economic metrics across the OPCOs.
• Applies Techno Economic Metrics in the analysis of investments and project in the
OPCOs.
• Tracks the use Techno Economic Metrics in the analysis of investments or divestments
across the portfolio of Group OPCOs.
• Define and maintain over time the relevant operational data required for calculating the
Techno Economic Metrics.

Experience / Qualifications

• Engineering Degree or equivalent.

• Industry training in RAN, Tx, core network technologies preferred
• International experience, preferably in the MENA or Asia regions
• 10 years’ experience directly related to aspects of Mobile and/or Fixed telecoms.
Relevant experience in technology budget and planning, technology performance,
technology strategy.
• Previously a member of any of the following team in an OPCO or Telecom Group:
o NW Planning,
o NW Performance,
o Technology Investments & Demand.
o Technology Strategy
• International experience, preferably in the MENA and-or Asia regions.
• Deep understanding of Technology efficiency metrics.
• Business acumen.
• Working knowledge of RAN, Tx, Core Networks and Service Delivery.
• Hands-on experience in the planning, design and implementation and operation of
Technology Systems in mobile networks
• Hands-on experience in the planning, design and implementation and operation of
NW Performance Systems in mobile networks
• Good knowledge of key mobile telecom NW systems, platforms, and technologies,
including hardware and software components
• Solid knowledge of Telecom infrastructure technologies and end-to-end planning
practices, implementation methods and cost optimisation strategies, with a speciality
in NW domains (RAN, Tx, CORE)
• Proven ability to translate marketing needs into engineering targets, ability to guide
marketing through that process, and contribute to strategy formulation

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