JOB DESCRIPTION
Manager – Transmission
Position Title
Network
Location Lagos
Written By Rakesh Kumar
Approved by:
1. JOB PURPOSE
This is a vital position to support network unit to do planning and providing technical solutions for connecting cell sites and
enterprise customer locations. This person will be interacting with the Partners’ teams’ very extensively. Robust, flexible and
state of art fiber and microwave transmission network planning & delivery is the essence of the role.
2. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Expected End Results (“WHAT”)
(List the expected end results that must be
achieved in order to fulfill the job purpose)
1. Microwave network Design & Planning
o Design to microwave access &
BB network to meet required
link / network reliability criteria.
2. Fiber network design & planning
o Plan & design to expand the
existing fiber network to build
resilience in the network.
3. Last mile solution design for enterprise
customers
4. Redundancy & protection design:
o Design network redundancy &
reliability better than 99.999%.
5. Regulatory Compliance:
o Sound knowledge of local
regulatory requirements
regarding frequency spectrum
use.
6. Good Technical Knowledge:
o Must know in-depth knowledge
of transmission technologies
like microwave, Fiber networks,
DWDM, SPDH/SDH, ASON,
VSAT, MPLS, Data
communications, etc.
Business Unit / Function Networks
Department Network Transmission
Head – Network
Administrative Reporting to:
Transmission
Head – Network
Functional Reporting to:
Transmission
Supporting Activities (“HOW”) (What are the key activities
undertaken to achieve the desired end results?
 Study the new site’s requirements and prepare connectivity
plan.
 Take inputs for BTS site’s expansion from the RF team and
prepare expansion of transmission network.
 Analyse and correct any frequency interference cases as &
when reported.
 Preparation of AOP & budget for capex and opex for
transmission network.
 IP Network design & Planning
 Last mile network Design & planning
 BoQ preparations & validation
 Preparing RFP & Technical specifications
 Close interactions with internal departments like Supply
Chain, Finance, deployment, and operations.
 Bandwidth and capacity planning & management
 Adherence to the local regulatory requirements wrt frequency
spectrum usage.
 Project Plan preparations, progress monitoring and tracking
for Fiber projects
 Day to day monitoring of KPIs of transmission network to
ensure that the reliability is as good as it was planned.
 MIS for senior management
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  Regular meetings with partners

Organization Reporting Structure Attributes

1 Report to: Head, Network Transmission
2 Position: Manager, Transmission
Network Planning
3 Matrix Reports:
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 Transmission (Microwave & Fiber) technologies available
from various vendors
 Routers, switches, aggregators & protocols
 IP networks, LAN, WAN
 Bandwidth & capacity management
Technologies for Last mile connectivity
 Various interfaces
 MPLS / DCN network
 Should have knowledge of local geography & customers
 Leadership & entrepreneur skills

3.DIMENSIONS
(List the significant numerical data which will reflect the scope and scale of activities concerning this job).

Financial Dimensions
(These should be quantifiable numerical amounts like annual budgets, opex, capex, annual revenue etc.)

 Annual OPEX Budget: ?

Other Dimensions
(Indication of some of the significant volumes associated with the job like number in team/ staff handled subscriber
base, etc.).
 No. of direct/indirect reports: transmission planning teams of partners as indirect
 Number of Regions/Zones Support: Whole Nigeria
 No. of technology partners/ vendors: 2 Major + many sub vendors

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4. SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
(State the minimum acceptable proficiency for this job. Do not state incumbent-specific information)

Educational  Bachelor of Engineering Degree

Qualifications &  Sound knowledge of Transmission of Mobile & Enterprise Network - Planning
Functional /  Analytical and Presentation skills
Technical Skills
Relevant
Experience (Type  Minimum 8 years relevant experience in planning of transmission networks domain
of experience and
minimum number
of years)
 Entrepreneurial disposition in decision making and managing resources
 Logical decision making abilities
 Flexible and dedicated
Other  Ability to innovate and deliver value to business
requirements  Ability to manage an outsourcing partner to effectively deliver on SLAs
(Behavioural etc.)  Ability to motivate and lead both internal and external partners
 Impeccable integrity and character
 Go-getter