Airtel International LLP-Airtel Africa
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/airtel-international-llp-airtel-africa
Industries: Telecommunications
Job details:
Experience: 4–5 years
Level: Manager
Why This Role Matters
Strong strategy needs credible evidence behind it, and strong execution rigor. As Airtel Business Africa sharpens its growth focus across OpCos, we need a consistent view of market potential, customer needs, competitive activity and emerging opportunities.
This role sits at the intersection of research, strategy, marketing PMO and execution-turning fragmented information into strategic recommendations, compelling leadership narratives and well-managed marketing initiatives.
What You Will Own
Market Sizing and Opportunity Assessment
- Build a consistent TAM, SAM and SOM methodology across OpCos, products, customer segments and industries.
- Triangulate internal data, primary research, secondary sources and expert inputs to create defensible estimates.
- Identify and prioritise opportunities based on market potential, competitive intensity and commercial viability.
Strategy and Executive Decks
- Develop strategy decks for annual planning, market prioritisation, portfolio strategy, leadership reviews and keynotes.
- Build concise, evidence-backed narratives for senior leadership and marketing strategy decks
- Own the strategic argument-not merely the presentation.
Competitive and Market Intelligence
- Establish a regular competitor-tracking cadence covering local, regional and global players.
- Monitor portfolios, and go-to-market activity.
- Produce market maps, competitor profiles and leadership briefs with clear business implications.
Marketing Project Management
- Manage selected marketing initiatives from planning through execution and closure.
- Define project scope, workplans, milestones, budgets, RACI and success metrics.
- Coordinate stakeholders across Group, OpCos, product, sales, finance and agency partners.
- Track timelines, dependencies, risks and outcomes through structured governance.
- Conduct post-program reviews and create reusable playbooks for multi-OpCo deployment.
Intelligence Infrastructure
- Build dashboards, repositories and reusable strategic frameworks.
- Establish a reliable source of truth for market, competitor and category intelligence.
- Use AI-enabled tools to accelerate research and synthesis while maintaining strong source validation and confidentiality.
What You Will Bring
- 4-5 years of experience in market intelligence, strategic research, corporate strategy, management consulting or marketing strategy.
- Demonstrated experience in market sizing, opportunity assessment and competitor analysis.
- Strong track record of developing senior-management or board-level strategy presentations.
- Experience managing cross-functional marketing or business projects in a global, matrixed environment.
- Sound understanding of business, marketing and financial metrics.
- Ability to work with incomplete data, build sensible assumptions and arrive at defensible conclusions.
- Excellent analytical, storytelling, stakeholder-management and project-management skills.
- MBA/PGDM from a leading business school preferred.
Technical Skills
- Hands-on knowledge of , and expertise in generative AI and research-automation tools is essential.
- Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills.
- Proficiency in Tableau, Power BI or an equivalent visualisation platform.
- Familiarity with market-intelligence databases and research platforms.
- Experience with project-management tools such as Asana, Notion, Smartsheet or Microsoft Project.
Preferred Experience
- Exposure to B2B technology, telecommunications, SaaS, cloud or digital services.
- Experience working across multi-country environments.
- Prior engagement with analyst firms, research agencies or consulting organisations.
What Success Looks Like
Within the first 12 months, this person will have:
- Established a consistent market-sizing framework across priority OpCos.
- Implemented a dependable competitor-intelligence cadence.
- Improved the analytical quality of leadership strategies and presentations.
- Delivered priority marketing projects with stronger governance and accountability.
- Made market intelligence a regular input into strategic and investment decisions.
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