Senior Business Manager


  2026-07-03
  Lagos, Nigeria
  Not specified
  Retail & Sales

Airtel Nigeria (Airtel Networks Limited) is a leading telecommunications services provider in Nigeria headquartered in Lagos, the commercial nerve-centre of Nigeria. The telco ranks amongst the top four mobile service providers in terms of subscribers with a customer base of more than 39.8 million. The company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce and enterprise services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Business Manager

Job Identification: 806
Location: Adamawa
Job Schedule: Full time

About the Role

  • The job purpose is to plan, monitor and ensure achievement of customer and revenue market share objectives set for zonal operations by supervising / influencing multiple teams to deliver operational excellence in network operations, customer service, channel management and market expansion.

Responsibilities
Increase Revenue Earning Customer Net Additions – Prepaid:

  • Oversee activating connections as per the stipulated turnaround times
  • Monitor churn & grace periods
  • Identify and formulate zonal sales strategies to help drive gross additions
  • Supervise health of acquisitions and compliance on activations

Increase Revenue Earning Customer Net Additions – Postpaid:

  • Monitor churn & grace periods
  • Identify and formulate zonal sales strategies to help drive gross additions
  • Oversee activating connections as per the stipulated turnaround times
  • Supervise health of acquisitions and compliance on activations

Achieve Net Revenue of the Zone:

  • Drive the reduction of recharge turnovers and first bill churn & zero recharge.
  • Identify and formulate Customer Service development strategies to help drive Collections and Bad Debts performance of the zone
  • Propose and drive VAS Up selling activities

Delivery on Channel Satisfaction Score:

  • Monitor the timely disbursement of claims to the market, regular trade service.
  • Implement the audit and review of channel partners & distributors to ensure Healthy ROI
  • Conceptualize, design and implement channel delight activities

Expand Distribution Width and Depth:

  • Establish SIM Selling outlets and other categories of retail outlets as a % of Easy Charge outlets.
  • Identify and formulate zonal sales strategies to help drive Distribution across showrooms and Dealer Service Agents
  • Ensure expansions to align to dimensioned number of Active Easy Charge Outlets

Network Coverage & Quality:

  • Network optimization
  • Follow through in delivering cell availability, quality of calls and reduction of outages at sites within zone.
  • New sites ROI and deployment

Delivery Showroom Experience:

  • Ensure showroom employees are upskilled in industry training and certifications for the role
  • Ensure provision of standard infrastructure at zonal showrooms
  • Identify and formulate customer service delivery strategies to help improve customer satisfaction scores

Achieve Employee Engagement Scores in Line With the Engagement Target for the Business Area:

  • Continuously motivating the front-line employees through leadership by examples
  • Implement all action plans that will address hygiene issues etc. From engagement survey.

Qualifications
Educational Qualifications:

  • Masters in Business Administration is an advantage.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Management or related Social Sciences

Relevant Experience & Functional / Technical Skills:

  • Minimum of 12 years of experience in Retail Sales, preferably in the Telecommunications, FMCG or the Manufacturing industry, with at least 4 years at middle management level
  • Extensive sales and business development experience with proven expertise in revenue generation and growth
  • Excellent understanding and implementation of Route-to-Market (RTM) and Go-to-Market strategies
  • Excellent product knowledge

Other Requirements:

  • Excellent presentation and communication skills
  • Team Player: Independent, confident and objective
  • Excellent at driving Execution Excellence
  • Excellent and proven leadership skills
  • Excellent Numerical Acumen and Analytical thinking skills
  • A strong Customer – centric orientation.
  • Attention to details
  • Excellent Relationship Management skills

Application Deadline: 10th July, 2026; 11:59 PM.


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