Organisation: Vonage Carrier Services & Engineering

Location: UK - Basingstoke (or remote for right candidate)

Vonage Carrier Services & Engineering Mission: To deliver quality end-to-end carrier services enabling the success of our SMS and Voice Operations across the company. This means delivering number and associated services for Vonage Number Inventory, API, Contact Centre and other businesses, helping Vonage emerge as a leader in the $100B+ cloud communications platform (CPaaS) market. As businesses continue to shift to a real-time, customer-centric communications model, we are experiencing a time of impressive growth.

Why this role matters

Vonage works with both carrier partners and have acquired licences to operate as a carrier, or as a service provider in several countries, enabling the delivery of a growing portfolio of Carrier Services to our global customer base. 

You will support Vonage to increase impact and performance of these carrier services (numbers and short codes), working closely with our various carrier partners in collaboration with our internal teams to help close, support and drive revenue. Vonage is seeking to recruit a Number Services Analyst to support the delivery and ongoing management of these Carrier Services & Engineering functions.

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What you will do

• Perform number and short code provisioning and inventory restocking when required
• Assist with testing of new numbers and troubleshoot where needed
• Process and implement new customer orders from the Sales team and customers directly
• Support in issue resolution activities for our customers
• Take part in carrier onboarding, testing and design activities as required
• Coordinate cross-functionally to ensure all stakeholders (e.g. support, legal, operations, sales) are kept informed and that carrier services are operating effectively
• Monitor carrier partner use to identify success and room for improvement
• Manage day-to-day carrier partner relationships via regular meetings, QBRs, etc.
• Respond to audits and inquiries received by our regulatory bodies
• Collaborate with internal team members to further automate operational tasks
• Initiate and manage number porting migration projects
• Analyse and monitor costs / quality of Vonage global numbers inventory
• Liaise with sales, support or product team in specific projects

What you will bring

• An end to end perspective of delivering carrier services to customers
• Strong analytical skills and strategic thinking
• Ability to assimilate complex operational challenges
• Ability work across diverse teams, engage and deliver
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills that can be applied in a fast-moving environment 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Client-focused attitude, with an enthusiastic and proactive nature
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to juggle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrate commitment to teamwork, and flexibility to get stuff done

Required 

• Two years experience of working within a contact centre/telco environment at an operational level
• Reasonable technical understanding of telephony
• Comfortable working in a distributed team with autonomy
• Adaptive communication skills, and a collaborative, cross functional working style
• Self-motivated and driven with strong multitasking and time management skills
• Able to work collaboratively within different teams and with differing levels of seniority
• Self-starting and able to self-manage
• Experience using Jira, Confluence and project management tools