Care Technical Manager
Nokia
As a Care Technical Manager, you will be responsible for the management of all the RAN TSS technical activities defined in the Customer TSS contract, in terms of quality, risk, and time, from delivery approach preparation through deployment to customer acceptance.
Reporting to the Care Program Manager, you will act as primary RAN technical interface for customer and internal stakeholders, and first escalation point within the Customer contract for all TSS technical aspects.
The Care Technical Manager is the primary technical liaison between the customer and Nokia Care organization for technical support activities, representing the Technical Support Service in front of customer.
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The Technical Manager is responsible for management of all the technical management activities defined in Customer contract in terms of quality, risk and time from delivery approach preparation through deployment, customer acceptance and care phase. Acts as primary technical interface and first technical escalation point within the Customer project.
You have:
- Engineering/Telecommunications degree.
- 5+ years of proven radio experience in RAN projects and Care contracts, e2e delivering to an external end-customer.
- 3+ years of technical management in the RAN area or team leading with customer interface role, and/or solution consulting for radio network technologies.
- Strong knowledge of Nokia products in all Radio technologies (2G, 3G, 4G, 5G),
- Good knowledge of Nokia TSS tools, and Nokia Create, Execute and Care processes.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Team leadership ability and team working skills.
- Fluency in English
It would be nice if you also had:
- A second European language is a plus (French, Spanish, German)
- Experience in other areas of Nokia portfolio.
- Be the primary technical contact and reference person in RAN TSS contracts.
- Maintain and build a trusted relationship/network with the customers, any BG within Nokia, and all internal and external resources.
- Work together with Care Program Management and technical staff, both local and remote.
- Ensure operational continuity and smooth execution as well as network availability by implementing BG/BL guidelines and PM@Nokia Methodology proactively.
- Validate the workload involved and expertise needed related to RAN technical tasks.
- Lead technical activities during the care phase. E.g., Fault and Technical Escalation Management, Preventive Care and HW/SW update and upgrade, follow up and Provide root cause of issues to the customer on going cases/issues, Lead the network elements audit, and Health check activity as per the contracted scope.
- Perform a Technical Risk Analysis, propose and implement risk mitigation actions.
- Be accountable and responsible for technical evaluation and support in the maintenance phase.
- Identify new potential opportunities to expand contracts with the customer.
- When applicable, support Solution Managers to review adopted solutions and assumptions.
- Build and maintain a close relationship with customers.
- Manage stakeholder communications, issues, and risks (internally and externally).