Rotimi Olajitan

Product and Services Solution Manager/Business Analyst                      April 2022 - Till date

Nokia

• Gathered and documented business requirements through interviews, workshops, surveys, and process reviews for RAN and Cloud transformation projects.
• Analyzed current processes, identified gaps, and proposed process improvement and automation opportunities.
• Organized technical consultancy discussions to drive and influence customer strategy, aligning it with roadmaps using a Value-Based Selling approach.
• Partnered with business and technical stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and document requirements across more than 20 global IT/Telecom projects, reducing change requests by approximately 15%.
• Managed multimillion-dollar programs including LTE/5G rollouts, RAN modernization, and cloud deployments, consistently achieving more than 95% on time delivery.
• Coordinated cross-functional teams of more than 20 staff and multiple vendors, improving delivery efficiency by approximately 20%.
• Facilitated UAT workshops and process mapping, ensuring business requirements are translated into actionable technical outcomes.
• Applied analytics and BI tools to identify performance gaps, delivering network optimization that improved ROI by up to 10%.
• Ensured compliance with company standards and governance frameworks during solution delivery.
• Spearheaded the complete SDLC for new feature development, managing the entire process from requirements gathering to final solution validation to ensure business goals were met

Customer Solutions Manager/Network Project Manager                        August 2018 – August 2021

Nokia

• Developed and maintained project roadmaps, schedules, and budgets, ensuring alignment with defined business requirements, stakeholder expectations, and project objectives.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure successful system integration and regulatory compliance.
• Managed and delivered end-to-end Managed Services operations, applying scope, schedule, cost, and risk management to achieve a YoY sales margin increase of more than 15%.
• Elicited, documented, and validated business and technical requirements for network optimization and managed services projects, ensuring alignment with customer objectives.
• Led network performance initiatives, tracking KPIs and reporting to stakeholders, maintaining 80%+ of major network KPIs above agreed SLAs.
• Coordinated full lifecycle of large-scale network expansion (2,000 2G–5G sites), managing resource allocation, budgeting, scheduling, vendor management, and compliance with technical and business requirements.
• Supported deployment of Enterprise IT networks, overseeing requirements management, implementation, and cross-functional stakeholder alignment.
• Collaborated with Customer Network Engineering, analyzing performance data and proposing actionable solution recommendations, optimizing network reliability and efficiency.
• Led multi-stakeholder telecom projects from initiation to deployment, ensuring scope, schedule, and quality objectives were met.
• Conducted process reviews to identify operational gaps and areas for efficiency improvement.
• Maintained project governance documentation, risk registers, and progress reports for leadership.

• PG Dip Business Administration:
  University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom. 2017
• Bachelor of Science – Electrical and Electronics Engineering 
  University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 2004