Associate Telecommunications Operations Specialist

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The Telecommunications Operations Specialist is a seasoned subject matter expert, requiring strong technical and analytical skills.

This role works cross-functionally across various geographic regions and requiring coordination with customer facing project managers to provision new customers and services primarily focusing on Service Number enablement.

Key responsibilities:

• Manages the ordering, provisioning, porting, and inventory of all Service Numbers (Toll-free, GEO, NAT) ensuring that they are scheduled and deployed with a high level of coordination with the Delivery team and customer-facing project managers.
• Participates in after-hours porting of numbers to ensure seamless customer cutovers in a 24x7 environment.
• Participates in the weekly, monthly, and quarterly vendor service reviews along with the Carrier Operations Managers.
• Escalates issues with the vendors when normal escalation paths by the team have been exhausted.
• Stays abreast of the global regulatory environment working alongside the compliance team and Carrier Operations Managers as it pertains to impacts on ordering and porting of numbers.
• Participates in the identification of opportunities to improve, orchestrate or automate repetitive tasks, prioritizes them and work cross-functionally to create or deploy new processes to increase the level of efficiency across teams.
• Performs any other related task as required.

To thrive in this role, you need to have:

• Multi-lingual in at least two languages preferred (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese).
• Understanding of telecommunication networks and regulatory environments.
• Understanding of SMS/800 database concepts.
• Knowledge in IP routing, SIP services, codecs, session border controller technologies.
• Seasoned expertise with Excel and analytical tools such as Power BI and Business Objects.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and demonstrates excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills.
• Demonstrates sound judgment and initiative to satisfy internal and external customer requirements.

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Telecommunications or Business or related field.

Required experience:

• Seasoned experience in an international telecommunications environment, preferably in a global organization.
• Seasoned experience in provisioning telecom services such as new number assignment, porting of geo and toll-free numbers.
• Seasoned experience in large scale customer migration projects working closely with customer project managers to coordinate phase deployments of complex and critical PBX and call center environments.
• Seasoned experience in enabling PBX and Contact Centre offerings.

Workplace type:

Hybrid Working

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