Associate Director, Business Operations & Site Acquisition

IHS Towers is the largest independent mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Founded in 2001, IHS provides services across the full tower value chain – colocation on owned towers, deployment and managed services. Today IHS Towers has operations in Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia and Rwanda. Following the recent acquisitions of MTN and Etisalat’s tower portfolios in Nigeria, IHS owns over 23,300 towers in Africa.  

Job Description

• Develop and implement new business plans for the company’s strategic properties, street furniture and non-conventional revenue streams e.g. billboards, etc. Prepare presentations to communicate the company’s expertise to clients, consultants, and property owners.
• Develop new initiatives that will enable the OpCo meet Group expectations in Real Estate business development (e.g. lease-to-purchase, high lease reduction, process review, etc).
• Program-manage new SAQ initiatives including site acquisition strategy for 5G and optimize the SAQ timelines by developing new initiatives to mitigate bottlenecks and other delays.
• Engage/ partner with banks and other identified customer segments on barter model to deploy IBS and other communications infrastructure without additional capital expenditure. Serve as the primary contact for supporting sales and addressing customers’ needs and desired locations of such infrastructure.
• Attend both internal and external meetings to discuss progress of projects. Leverage cross-functional project teams to deliver services to customers that meet project timelines on-time and in-budget while maximizing revenue opportunities.
• Prepare periodic and/ or ad hoc reports for management to track progress towards strategic goals.
• Collaborate with Legal, Regulatory Affairs & Government Relations, and other key internal stakeholders to manage all aspects of complying with conditions of approval pertaining to the installation, operation and maintenance of strategic properties.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by COO and Director, Real Estate.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s and/ or advanced Degree.
• 18 years of relevant work experience in.
• Current/prior experience in a real estate organization
• Strong business acumen and leadership skills.