Regulatory Manager

About Airtel: Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 18 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, the company's product offerings include 2G, 3G 4G and 5G wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high speed home broadband, DTH, enterprise services including national & international long-distance services to carriers. In the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G wireless services and mobile commerce. Bharti Airtel has over 400+ million customers across its operations.

Designation- Assistant Manager

Location: Chennai

Job Responsibilities:

II. Regulatory:

• Compliance of the provisions of license agreement executed by the company with the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).
• Compliance to all Regulation, Instructions, Notification etc issued by DoT, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) & the Reserve Bank Of India (RBI).
• To develop & maintain amicable relationship with government bodies DoT / TERM, TRAI, CCA, BSNL and other telecom operators at the circle level.
• To monitor subscriber activation and verification process and sensitize / educate all concerned in this regard.
• To guide and assist Circle Nodal Officer.
• Support concerned functions in closure of all audits pertaining to legal & regulatory.
• Responsible for closure / resolution of all type of queries pertaining to licensing condition raised by TERM Cell on regular basis.
• To educate and sensitize the cross functional teams [Sales & CSD] for improvement in acquisition and documentation process helping to increase compliance scores in monthly subscriber verification audits and ensure minimal penalty.
• Responsible / Coordinate with TERM Officials for final discussion and closure of monthly joint subscriber verification / documentation audit so as to achieve the satisfactory compliance score on monthly basis.
• Responsible / Coordinate with TERM Officials for discussion, submitting appropriate response and closure of all EMF related compliances.

• Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• LSA Field Management (TERM/CCA/TRAI RO), adherence to licensing compliances and Infrastructure Support -

a. Improve interaction quality with LSA units of DoT / TRAI RO to improve compliance scores of CAF / EMF & MRO.

b. Timely & qualitative response to all notices/correspondences for risk mitigation

c. Business intelligence on regulatory compliances

d. Interact & strengthen relationship with BSNL/MTNL/CCA

e. Ensure adherence to UL/UASL audit, inspection requirements & all security compliances (as per license conditions)

f. Timely support on Legal matters to Nodal and other LOBs including drafting of police complaints/FIRs incorporating relevant sections of the Law and provision of legal representation wherever required

2. Compliance on TRAI regulations / orders, Interconnection issues Legal Compliance Management and De-risking the business -

Regulatory Compliance Management

a. Ensure adherence to all TRAI compliances wrt MNP issues at circle, QoS, UCC or any other audits from circle and directions on Advertisements as per TRAI Guidelines (TCCPR - Nodal & Appellate Details ), including all reporting with accuracy and timeliness

b. Taking up with BSNL/MTNL for retrieval of BG (IUC and Port BG)

c. Adherence to Regulatory Notice & litigation management policy and timely reporting & approvals of compliances in CMS

d. To manage and lead USOF project by ensuring timely approvals from the LSA/CCAs and adequate coordination with state authoritieis including correspondence

• Other Business support:
• ROW Permissions: Facilitate speedy rollout of towers & fibre through co-ordination with state govt. / local municipal bodies / State or District Broadband Committees.
• Acquisition support for CTA & Government sites aligned with gazette notification on RoW

Education Qualification

· BL/LLB/ML/LLM

Total Experience

· Minimum 7 years in relevant field