The Group regulatory function is responsible for providing leadership and regulatory support to all units of the business at group and OpCo level.
The function monitors new regulatory policies and issues and works as an early warning on risks and opportunities. It provides input into proposed regulatory policies and regulations to ensure that OG and OpCos interests are taken into account.
The function provides support for lobbying with governments and regulators and managing the strategic agenda with industry and policy shaping bodies to reinforce OG priorities.
The purpose of this role is to provide specialist telecommunications regulatory support for Ooredoo Group and its operating companies and to ensure the function’s responsibilities are fulfilled.
The role will support implement or push for ex-post and ex-ante regulation, including market reviews, dominance assessments, regulatory remedies and provide regulatory support for advocating infrastructure sharing and wholesale access in our markets, as deemed appropriate.
In partnership with the regulatory head and each of the operations, align policy goals across Ooredoo and lead the development, execution, and continuous improvement of Ooredoo’s public policy advocacy and external engagement.
Regulatory strategy - Assist in the development and implementation of the overall regulatory strategy at Group level and support its implementation at operations level.
Awareness - Stay abreast and disseminate the latest thinking, best practice and benchmarks in the regulation of fixed and mobile markets and new digital markets. This would include policy evidence and creating a library of best practice that would be made available to OpCos and which can be used to respond to consultations.
Modelling - The role holder should be able to provide quantitative / econometric modelling to help quantify the impact of our policy positions on important consultations and adopt some of the principles of game theory and auction theory to inform pricing and bid strategies for spectrum.
Competition analysis - Analyse competitive conditions in fixed, mobile and digital markets using applied industrial organisation theory, and identify ways to address market power.
Digital - Facilitate and support each OpCo to drive change to the regulatory environment to improve current and future business opportunities including digital services, data protection, data monetization, smart services and future digital technologies.
Ex-ante and ex-post - Provide support and direction to OpCos on interconnect and wholesale access, spectrum allocation, network sharing, universal service funds, telecom laws, fees and taxation, quality of service and competition frameworks (Ex-ante and Ex-Post).
Consultations - Provide support and governance to the operations in the preparation of responses to public consultations, investigations, regulatory audits and other queries issued by the respective regulators and related government ministries.
At least 12 years’ experience directly related to duties and responsibilities at least 5 of which should be within a telecommunications regulatory environment.
Telecommunications policy and competition analysis experience is essential.
Capacity to assess and model business impact of government policies, laws, determinations, etc.
Solid knowledge and understanding of different legal and telecommunications regulatory frameworks and associated best practices.
Strong competition policy and regulatory economics experience.
Knowledge and understanding of different telecommunications legal and regulatory frameworks.