African and Middle Eastern telecom tower operator with 15,000+ sites
Helios Towers operates nearly 15,000 mobile tower sites across nine countries in Africa and the Middle East, serving leading mobile network operators with colocation infrastructure and power services. The tech stack reflects a maturing enterprise—SAP, Databricks, ServiceNow, and Collibra anchor finance, data, and operations—while the hiring velocity and project list signal heavy internal transformation: strategic HR process overhaul, business process review, energy efficiency improvements, and a new product launch are running in parallel, with ISO compliance and uptime challenges surfacing as operational friction points.
Notable leadership hires: Category Lead, Sales Director
Helios Towers is a public telecom infrastructure company headquartered in London and founded in 2009. It operates as an independent tower owner and operator across Africa and the Middle East, providing shared mobile tower sites (colocation model) and power services to major mobile network operators. The business serves the fastest-growing mobile regions globally, with operations spanning Madagascar, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, United Arab Emirates, Congo-Brazzaville, South Africa, and Senegal. The company employs 501–1,000 staff and combines infrastructure operations with a stated focus on people development and continuous improvement. Current strategic priorities include business process modernization, HR cost reduction, energy efficiency, and compliance standardization across its nine-country footprint.
SAP and SuccessFactors for enterprise finance and HR; Databricks for data analytics; ServiceNow for IT operations; Collibra for data governance; Azure for cloud; Power BI for reporting. Git and Terraform support engineering processes.
Nearly 15,000 mobile tower sites across nine countries in Africa and the Middle East, shared via colocation model among leading mobile network operators.
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