Administrative & Partnerships Specialist Director-level Support
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Ifeanyi Ikegwuani
**********@*****.*** • https://www.linkedin.com/in/ifeanyi-ikegwuani-9882a824/ Lagos, Nigeria
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Ifeanyi is a seasoned administrative professional with Signal Alliance Technology Holding, (SATH) a leading technology integrator for corporate organizations in Nigeria with experience in enterprise technology services, from Cloud Technology, Infrastructure & Service Management, Data & AI, IT Security, Managed/Outsourced Services and Enterprise Software services. Ifeanyi has built several years of experience in the coordination of executive office with expertise in administrative support, research and documentation, customer care services, general office management, project management and commercial negotiation with vendors. He currently interfaces between OEMs and Signal Alliance Technology Holding on programs and initiatives. He also has expertise in managing C-level executives, office correspondence, calendar maintenance, file and record maintenance, meeting scheduling and preparation, travel plans as required, relationship management, internal interface with other units and departments. He maintains high degree of confidentiality, discretion, integrity, professionalism and good judgment in dealing with sensitive matters and decision making as well as handling a variety of tasks simultaneously by establishing priorities, working independently and performing other assigned functions.
Ifeanyi has strong interpersonal, time-management, communication and organizational skills. He is considered a dedicated and dependable individual that understands what it takes to be a team player, develop strong relationships with partners, customers and individuals across board. WORK EXPERIENCE
Manager, Partnerships & Programs
Signal Alliance Technology Holding (SATH) • Lagos, Nigeria Oct 2023 - Date
Developing a comprehensive annual Partner Business Plan (PBP) that drives revenue growth for each partnership.
Maintaining the strategic alliance plan, coordinating with other OEM Leads, Alliance Managers and practice leadership, to keep an up-to-date view of the business plan
Highlighting GTM approach, top priorities, our capabilities, and financial goals for the alliance.
Working with Opcos to ensure the alliance performance budget and other expectations are achieved.
Expanding each strategic partnership footprint through new solution adoption, programs, products, and services and successfully execute to market
Aligning and extending the reach of SATH OpCos into the Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint and other strategic OEM fields and into the market/industry owners
Building and maintaining a trusted partner relationship with high levels of satisfaction
Establishing high impact networks that serve to facilitate interactions with various internal groups and teams
Relationship Management – Establishing, managing, and supporting a meeting cadence to foster strong executive relationships between SATH and Alliance partners.
Keeping our alliance counterparts appraised of everything we are doing to drive incremental sales
& enhance the relationship.
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Coordinate with strategic partner Liaisons to track and drive program based GTM plans.
Acting as an information clearing house as it relates to your alliance. Ensuring that training requirements are met.
Programs Manager Jan 2023 – Oct 2023
Signal Alliance Technology Holding (SATH) • Lagos, Nigeria
Track and manage all program data, provide performance and status reports on specific program periodically (weekly and monthly).
Evaluate and report on KPIs of programs to measure program effectiveness and value.
Research and introduce new program whilst ensuring success of existing programs in Nigeria and Africa across OEMs.
Act as subject matter expert for key elements of the OEM-led and SATH-Led programs and initiatives.
Develop a short-term annual roadmap and financial expectations from each program.
Work with PMO and business stake holders for program opportunity identification, resource assignment and dependencies, monitoring and closures.
Design program scope and timelines and Ensure program completion timelines are kept avoiding over runs.
Conduct milestone assessments and independent efficiency of programs.
Boost our program management competency visibility leveraging marketing resources.
Coordinate partnership department program efforts with OEMs. GENERAL
Executive Assistant Nov 2019 – Jan 2023
Signal Alliance Technology Holding (SATH) • Lagos, Nigeria
• Establish and co-ordinate administrative policies and procedures for officials, committees and boards of directors
• Analyse incoming and outgoing memoranda, submissions and reports and prepare and co- ordinate the preparation and submission of summary briefs and reports to executives, committees and boards of directors
• Prepare agendas and plan for committee, board and other meetings
• Conduct research, compile data, and prepare papers for consideration and presentation by executives, committees and boards of directors
• Meet with individuals, special interest groups and others on behalf of executives, committees and boards of directors to discuss issues and assess and recommend various courses of action
• Liaise with departmental and corporate officials and with other organizations and associations on behalf of executives, committees and boards of directors.
• Manage scheduling for the Chairman
• Draft, review and send communications on behalf of the Chairman
• Organize and prepare for meetings, including gathering documents and attending to logistics of meetings
• Prioritize emails and respond when necessary
• Coordinate travel arrangement
Executive Commercial Assistant Feb 2009 - Oct 2019 Globacom Telecommunications • Lagos, Nigeria
• Partnered with the relevant department to facilitate the growth and expansion of Glo High Speed Internet (HSI) and the increase in the subscriber base of Glo BlackBerry from its initial 2,000 subscribers to over 60,000-subscriber base as at then.
• Facilitated the shipment of over 150,000 pieces of Internet modems (dongles) from Huawei and ZTE. I was also involved in the supervision of the distribution of the modems to various Glo sale outlets and Glo business associates pan-Nigeria.
• Negotiated with Alcatel-Lucent, Emitac Mobile Solutions (EMS) for the procurement of Blackberry Licenses and the procurement of Last Mile Connectivity from Research in Motion
(RIM) through Qicomm, London.
• Negotiated with mCentric for the acquisition, delivery and installation of Subscription Management Platform for High-Speed Internet (HSI) and BlackBerry Service for the network.
• Negotiated with Roamware for the purchase and deployment of a roaming solution platforms for Globacom Nigeria, Benin and Ghana. The platforms have inbound roaming magnet, which helps in steering inbound roamers in Ghana and Benin towards the Glo network irrespective of their network.
• Supervised the establishment and transition of a new Call Centre Platform from Alcatel-Lucent to Huawei.
• Negotiated with Rakfam Construction, Logic Instrumentation Ltd. and other vendors for the fabrication of over 10,000 Antenna Mountain Poles and Krone Blocks for Node B deployment GENERAL
and 3G expansions across Nigeria.
• Facilitated the resuscitation of Glo Controcards along with the MD and Operations Manager.
• Oversight supervision on other projects as directed by the GED, negotiated on other commercial business proposals with vendors and content providers. EDUCATION
Master of International Affairs and Diplomacy (MIAD) Feb 2006 - Jan 2007 Ahmadu Bello University Zaria • Zaria, Nigeria
B.A Public Administration Feb 2000 - Nov 2004
Ahmadu Bello University Zaria • Zaria, Nigeria
SKILLS
• Microsoft Publisher
• Simply Accounting
• Human resources software
• MS PowerPoint
• MS Access
• MS Excel
• MS Office
• MS Outlook
• MS Word
• Data Administration
PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS
• Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) - In view
• Member, Guild of Orators
• Member, Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM)
VOLUNTEER WORK
Healthcare Assistant Feb 2008 - Jan 2009
Immaculate Care • Kaduna, Nigeria
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