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Practice Lead- Public Safety

Practice Lead- Public Safety

NokiaZA
7 days ago
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Job title : Practice Lead- Public Safety

Job Location : South Africa, Deadline : January 24, 2025 Quick Recommended Links

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Key Tasks and Responsibilities – Lead Public Safety

  • Identify and lead early engagement on all MEA opportunities in public safety networks by being the ‘chief storyteller’ and technical authority for the vertical
  • Collaborate and drive global and regional teams to build network evolution plans for legacy public safety network in MEA.
  • Monitor and leverage the competitive landscape, enabling a use-case driven solution selling approach with Enterprise TSM, CT’s.
  • Work in close collaboration with regional and global technology and SI partners on creating early engagement
  • Develops, maintains and drives growth strategies and plans for assigned verticals, using market know-how & dynamics, competitive assessment, and Nokia portfolio understanding.
  • Analyze emerging needs around public safety infrastructure, such as communication networks, surveillance, and predictive analytics for crime prevention
  • Develop relationships with public safety and government agencies, emergency services, law enforcement, and government bodies to understand their needs and challenges.
  • Establish partnerships with technology providers and GTM partners specializing in public safety, such as emergency communication platforms, data security firms, and predictive analytics providers
  • Acts as a senior subject matter expert, typically at the regional level, in many organizational units the most senior internal expert who serves as best practice / quality resource and is an acknowledged authority both within and outside own organizational unit.
  • Uses value-based argumentation and business cases addressing customer business challenges and develops innovative solutions that help to sustain competitive advantage.
  • Shapes and support offerings for multi-products, services, or end-to-end solutions.
  • Direct interface and engagement with customers, partners, and account and pre-sales teams.
  • Leads cross-functional teams to drive successful customer engagements and solution adaptation
  • Build on Nokia’s unique portfolio value and expand through broader corporate initiatives such as ESG to drive measurable and sustainable outcomes.
  • Solves highly complex or novel problems based on sophisticated analytical thought and complex judgment.
  • Knowledge & Experience

  • Management Experience / Mastery of a specific professional discipline combining deep knowledge of theory and practice within a function. Expert in more than one area, broad perspective. Typically requires 7-10 years of extensive relevant experience and / or a graduate / postgraduate equivalent degree.
  • Extensive knowledge of the Public sector and public safety industry in the Middle East and Africa region; able to understand the technology transformation and use cases required to innovate and disrupt.
  • At least 10 years of experience in a consultative, solution-oriented, selling or business development role within public safety or adjacent industries.
  • Ideally, a background in technology, management consultancy, or direct industry expertise within the public safety domain.
  • Familiarity and understanding around private networks and infrastructure services is required.
  • Ability to hunt, steer and close on relationships at a C-level across assigned customer, partners and territories.
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