Manager, Commercial Planning

Location: Lagos

Job Summary 

Oversees the commercial budget management and business analysis, examine commercial budget (revenue and opex) estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations.

Analyze and control commercial budget in terms of spend and revenue for various commercial channels as well as preparation of the commercial Business Plan.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Forecasting, Budgeting and budgetary Control on Subscriber count, revenue, handsets and cost of sales for the entire Commercial group

• Preparation of the Business plan and analyzing of all KPIs

• Produce Monthly/Quarterly/Half-yearly reforecast of the business plan KPIs based on actual performance against targets

• Product income comparison with set standards on predetermined ARPU’s, determining reasons for variance with a view of addressing reasons for monthly disparities

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Preparation of Departmental Budget on income and recurrent expenditure for various commercial channels.

• Liaise with the finance team to ensure that Budget set standards is met and budgetary standards on cost are within standards prescribed by Finance.

• Regulate and instill strict financial discipline and control within the commercial teams.

• Generate reports on financial performance for commercial teams on a regional basis.

• Prepare product margin analysis, business cases and activity-based costing.

• Perform any duties as assigned by the VP, Product Marketing & Commercial Strategy

Education and Experience

• First degree or equivalent in a numerate discipline.

• Postgraduate/professional qualification in a related field will be an added advantage.

• Six (6) to eight (8) years work experience, with at least three (3) years in a supervisory role.

• Professional experience in commercial, finance control operations and cost management.

• Prior work experience in Telecom Industry will be an added advantage.

• Experience in cross functional collaboration and management

• Experience in making presentations to senior management

• Minimum of intermediate Microsoft Office 365 user (advanced user of Microsoft Excel)