Overview
Director – Digital Services & Partnerships Jobs in Doha, Qatar at Ooredoo Group
Your impact on our goals
- Lead the development, launching, and managing of digital product propositions and corresponding partnerships.
- Oversee the establishment of partnerships with vendors to deliver profitable new digital services and revenue streams for Ooredoo Group.
- Role holder is responsible to lead for Ooredoo group this vertical with more than 5% of Group revenues and more than 15% Group free cash flow contribution. Objective is to increase this progressively further with double digit growth rates.
- Sets and executes the strategy for building partnerships and conceptualizing, developing, and delivering digital products and services.
- Focus on :
- B2C, including Digital, VAS and Platforms (e.g. Gaming);
- B2B2C, including messaging, mobile advertisements, TV; and API monetization
- B2B including data monetization, cloud services, IOT, and hosting services among others.
- Develop an enablement layer foundation for unlocking a digital partnership economy
OpCo Enablement & Best Practice Sharing
- Lead with Group function support the identification of required enablement tools, support / managed services requirements, MSP/SI requirements etc for Group projects on digital services or OpCo enablement to operate digital services on a common delivery stack where applicable.
- Ensure development and dissemination to all OpCos, best practice guidelines for content services/digital VAS services to drive through improvements in revenue and operational effectiveness across the Group of companies. This includes sharing learnings form the different OpCos content teams.
- Develop annual innovation strategy with clear priorities and follow through on identified priorities in alignment with OpCos. Focus on innovations to drive efficiency and effectiveness of the telco business model.
- Maintain innovation leadership exchange team as exchange forum for key innovation projects of OpCos and innovation priorities of Ooredoo Group
- Execute POCs in those priority fields after alignment with relevant Ooredoo Group functions to test hypothesis with a lead OpCo and review performance. Facilitate roll-out on a broader base throughout Group in case of successful POCs
- Maintain relationship network with key forums for innovation in the telecoms space.
Policy, Processes, Compliance
- Develop processes, rules, procedures, and policies that will be executed by the digital services teams in the OpCos and at Ooredoo Group (e.g product lifecycle, vendor and customer lifecycle management, partner selection, product launch, B2B marketplace, etc.)
- Align the respective policies and processes with local OpCo’s policies and processes
- Responsible for supplier integrity checks based on the rules & process developed for this purpose
- Assure confidentiality of the data according with company’s rules
- Ensure compliance with the Group Digital Services & Partnerships policies, processes, procedures and rules
- Monitor the existing processes and mechanisms to ensure that the Digital Services & Partnerships process and the relevant Group Digital Services and Partnerships contracts are performed/ issued in accordance with the relevant approvals as per authority matrix
- Be accountable to the Audit function regarding department’s initiatives
- Ensure placement of appropriate controls on the Digital Services & Partnerships activities and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the implementation of the relevant action plans within the committed deadline
Budgeting/Planning
- Develop financial plan and identify required budgets for digital service function at Ooredoo Group, align with Senior Director Propositions, Digital Services and Partnerships and with GCCO and provide as input to OG headquarter planning
- Review of OpCo financial plans for digital services in annual planning cycle with respective challenging where required.
- Lead for development of market views for the digital service segment in our OpCo markets for addressable markets together with strategic planning & performance management team and mirroring market growth vs OpCo growth profile for digital services.
- Lead team activities, provides guidance and support, and monitor workload and priorities
- Develop team members and support in…
Title: Director – Digital Services & Partnerships
Company: Ooredoo Group
Location: Doha, Qatar
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