Senior Manager - GIS Geographic Information System.Group Strategy and Transformation

Global Influences:

•     Accelerated adoption of geospatial analytics across industries for customer targeting and infrastructure optimisation.
•     Integration of spatial data with AI/ML and big data platforms to drive business intelligence
• Industry Drivers:
•     Telcos are leveraging location data to unlock new commercial value streams and insights
•     Cross-sector demand for spatial intelligence solutions in retail, transport, FMCG, and government

Organisational Mandate:

MTN DataCo aims to enable insight-driven decision-making and revenue-generating data products, with geospatial analytics as a core capability. The role supports this by advancing GIS frameworks, tooling, and data assets, and by positioning these in consulting and platform solutions to external clients.
Organization Values: At MTN we believe that understanding our people’s needs and aspirations is key to creating experiences that delight you at work, every day. We are committed to fostering an environment where every member of our Y’ello Family is heard, understood, and empowered to live an inspired life. Our values keep us grounded and moving in the right direction. Most importantly, they keep us honest. It is not something we claim to be. It is in our DNA.
As an organisation, we consider it our mission to create an exciting and rewarding place to work, where our people can be themselves, thrive in positivity and ignite their full potential. A workplace that boosts creativity and innovation, improves productivity, and ultimately drives meaningful results. A workplace that is built on relationships and achieving a purpose that is bigger than us. This is what we want you to experience with us!
Our commitments go beyond an organisational promise. It is in our leadership and managerial ethos to meaningfully partner with our employees, customers, and stakeholders with a vision to realise our shared goals.

Spatial Analytics Design and Enablement

•     Lead spatial analysis, geolocation modelling, and enrichment using telco, geographic, and behavioral data.
•     Develop and maintain reusable spatial models and thematic layers (e.g., population, income, footfall, network performance).
•     Ensure models are scalable across OpCos and applicable to diverse sectors such as FMCG, public services, finance, and infrastructure planning.

Consulting and Monetisation Support

•     Collaborate with Business Development and Solution Consulting to scope spatial PoVs and client engagements.
•     Translate spatial insights into business outcomes for planning, segmentation, targeting, and infrastructure optimisation
•     Guide commercial packaging and use case framing for spatial analytics offers

Spatial Platform Integration

•     Ensure geospatial assets are integrated with DataCo’s core architecture and available in hybrid environments (e.g., Hadoop, Databricks, Azure, GCP, etc)
•     Contribute to platform design and data pipeline enablement for real-time and batch spatial workloads
• Partner Data and Enrichment Coordination
•     Manage relationships with third-party data providers (e.g., demographic vendors, mapping providers)
•     Oversee ingestion and validation of external layers and harmonisation with telco data assets

Governance And Standards

•     Promote standard GIS data models, metadata practices, and spatial quality controls
•     Ensure geospatial data and models align with Group security, privacy, and compliance policies

Capability Building and Evangelisation
•    Drive GIS maturity uplift across OpCos via enablement sessions, playbooks, and knowledge-sharing.
•    Represent MTN spatial capabilities in industry forums, research publications, and strategic client engagements.
•    Explore emerging spatial analytics techniques (e.g., geospatial ML, spatial-temporal graph analytics) and lead internal innovation pilots.
 

Education:

•     Minimum 4 year degree in computer science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or related technical field (mandatory)
•     Degree in Geoinformatics, GIS, Spatial Planning, Data Science, or related field
•     Master’s degree or higher advantageous.
•     GIS certification or postgraduate qualification (preferred)
•     Certification in geospatial tools (e.g., ESRI, QGIS, PostGIS) or spatial data science is advantageous.

Experience:

•     Minimum 6+ years of experience in spatial analytics, GIS implementation, or location intelligence roles
•     Prior experience in telco, urban planning, consulting, or retail analytics domains
•     Demonstrated track record of translating spatial insights into commercial or operational outcomes

Competencies:

•     Strategic Framing : Aligns spatial solutions to commercial goals and customer outcomes.
•     Geospatial Analytics: Expert in geolocation modelling, thematic mapping, and spatial visualisation tools (e.g., QGIS, ArcGIS, PostGIS)
•     Insight Translation: Strong ability to convert spatial patterns into actionable insights for commercial and operational use
•     Technical Acumen: Familiarity with cloud-based spatial data systems and integration with big data platforms
•     Consulting Orientation: Skilled in communicating complex spatial concepts to business and technical audiences
•     Tooling and Frameworks: Knowledge of geospatial APIs, mobility datasets, routing models, and 3rd-party enrichment layers
•     Governance and Quality: Ensures accuracy, lineage, and compliance of spatial models and insights
•     Innovation Drive: Applies emerging spatial techniques to unlock new use cases.
•     Data Integration: Merges telco, geographic, and partner data into enriched spatial products.
•     Compliance Stewardship: Ensures spatial practices are privacy-preserving and policy aligned.

Key Deliverables:

•     Internal:
• o    Group-standard geolocation models and spatial layers
• o    Documentation of spatial use cases and client-ready PoV templates
• o    GIS enablement plans and community of practice coordination
•     External:
• o    Spatial components of PoV packages and consulting deliverables
• o    Integration reference docs and deployment guides for platform teams and partners
• o    Strategic insight dashboards or visualisation prototypes for client engagements