About this role
What this Job Entails:
The role will work closely with engineering and operational stakeholders to ensure the success of each business units’ secure messaging strategy.
• Scope: • Develops and executes SMS category contracting strategies, including comprehensive cost reduction opportunities, quality of service improvements, and innovation, focusing on Total Cost of Ownership • Leverage existing MNO relationships to accelerate API readiness, cycles, and to secure favorable commercial terms. • Builds a strong understanding of strategic business direction, requirements, and priorities across assigned category • Builds and maintains strong relationships with key stakeholders, including MNO’s, client business units and internal partners.
• Required Qualifications/Skills • Strong understanding of the technical and commercial aspects of SMS messaging, including A2P messaging, signaling, and interoperability. • Deep expertise in SMS messaging and its applications within enterprise/hyperscaler environments. • Ability to lead discovery sessions with Mobile Network Operators to evaluate their API roadmap, commercial readiness, and open-gateway standard alignment for potential partnerships
• Proven track record of success in business development, sales, or account management within the telecommunications industry. • Extensive experience negotiating and contracting with MNOs globally. • Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders. • Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. • Bachelor’s degree (B.S/B.A) from four-college or university and 8+ years’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience • Must be able to lead a cooperative effort across members of project teams. • Ability to communicate effectively • Exercises logic and reasoning to define problems, establish facts and draw valid conclusions; makes decisions that support business objectives and goals • Public relations skills for maintaining effective working relationships with individuals and groups • Ability to analyze complex business and technical issues and develop, recommend and implement effective solutions
• Preferred Qualifications: • Background within a Managed Services environment working with and on behalf of large Hyperscalers and Enterprise clients.
• Physical Demand & Work Environment: • Must have the ability to perform office-related tasks which may include prolonged sitting or standing • Must have the ability to move from place to place within an office environment • Must be able to use a computer • Must have the ability to communicate effectively • Some positions may require occasional repetitive motion or movements of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers
Salary Range 79,120.00 - 98,900.00 EUR (Annual) • Please note that the salary information provided herein is base pay only (gross); it does not include other forms of compensation which may or may not apply to this specific position, namely, performance-based bonuses, benefits-related payments, or other general incentives - none of which are guaranteed, may be subject to specific eligibility requirements, and are wholly within the discretion of Astreya to remit. • Further, the salary information noted above is a range that consists of a minimum and maximum rate of pay for this specific position. Where an applicant or employee is placed on this range will depend and be contingent on objective, documented work-related considerations like education, experience, certifications, licenses, preferred qualifications, among other factors.