
Head of Local Delivery Managers for UK & Nordics
- Cairo
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Operational Implementation Management of Network Services in line with the guidelines and targets from GDO management and practice owners.
- Management of the Delivery Mangers teams in Cairo, mainly UK & Nordics.
- Responsible for driving delivery managers to achieve service delivery targets.
- Share OB strategic guidelines and inputs with his/her managers and their teams
- Build and maintain a strong governance over the delivery targets, including promoting best practices, and setting enhancement plans for scenarios/cases where targets are not achieved or quality is not meeting the standard.
- Define and execute service delivery strategies aligned with company goals.
- Serve as the senior escalation point for service delivery issues.
- Review resourcing requirements on a regular basis to optimize efficiency, improve productivity and ensure compliance to budget.
- Develop technical skills and competency of resources to match both current and future customer delivery requirements.
- Motivate teams to deliver best in class quality services to our customers and driving towards excellence in customer satisfaction.
- Ensure appropriate levels of monitoring of all resources and performance are set.
- Approve recruitment of operational team members.
- Ensure customer satisfaction with the service delivered in terms of lead time and quality.
- Own customers Projects/Orders and act on the implementation of services per the contractual delivery targets.
- Represent the OTB/LDM at required customers meetings, service reviews and act as focal point during customers visits.
- Act as management escalation contact for customer queries.
- Communicates and manages expectations of the Customer during the service implementation.
- Develop strong relationship with the main stakeholders and customers.
- Own service improvement plans (SIP) to ensure execution till customer satisfaction.
- Analyze and review service delivery performance against the KPIs.
- Agree and initiate appropriate actions to maintain and improve performance.
- Develop guidelines for specific work activities for each team and develop team targets.
- Escalate to our Carriers/suppliers orders not meeting SLAs with coordination with Carrier Vendor and supply chain management.
- Work with Change and Release Management Team to evaluate all Changes, to establish the effect on capacity and performance.
- Ensure monitoring of escalation procedures and escalation management.
- Support and work with Service Operations to ensure the appropriate actions are being taken for smooth hand over to operations.
- Share Orange Business strategic guidelines and inputs with his/her managers and their teams, ensuring strong local and global collaboration and teamwork.
- Undertake any other reasonable and professional task as required.
- On-Call assumption and Stand-by may be required.
- Fluent English (French and / or other foreign languages is a plus)
- Excellent interpersonal, team-build and communication skills
- Excellent Leadership skills
- Good exposure to an international, multi-cultural environment.
- Ability to work under pressure and deal with multiple tasks.
- Team Building Skills
- Conflict Resolution
- Ability to deal with different cultures and behaviors
- Decision-Making techniques
- Excellent Presentation skills
- Proactive, self-motivated and determined attitude
- Strategically focused and customer oriented
- Excellent understanding and experience of BUILD operations and QTB processes.
- PMP Certification (or equivalent) is a plus
- proactive, self-motivated and determined attitude.
- Computer, Comm., or Electronics B. Eng, B.Sc. or B.A/MIS degree.
- Business & management studies (Service/Operation management, project management, process lean management, ITIL Foundation, etc...) are a plus.
- Management Diploma or MBA is a plus.
- At least 2 years of management/leadership experience.
- At least 3-4 years of Delivery/OTB operations and/or NS technical experience.
- Global opportunities: Work in multi-national teams with the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and customers from all over the world
- Flexible work environment: Flexible working hours and possibility to combine work from office and home (hybrid ways of working)
- Professional development: training programs and upskilling/re-skilling opportunities
- Career growth: Internal growth and mobility opportunities within Orange
- Caring and daring culture: health and well-being programs and benefits, diversity & inclusion initiatives, CSR and employee connect events
- Reward programs: Employee Referral Program, Change Maker Awards