MTN’s senior management shake-up continued with the appointment of Jens Schulte Bockum (pictured), former CEO of Vodafone Germany, as its new group chief operating officer, along with two other high-level hires.

The African group’s incoming president and CEO, Rob Shuter, who is set to take the helm in March next year, also has a Vodafone Group background, where he served as head of its European cluster.

Bockum, who headed the German unit between 2012 and 2015, will assume the MTN position effective 16 January, succeeding Jyoti Desai, who is retiring.

Meanwhile, Oliver Fortuin, the current CEO of BT Global Services Sub Saharan Africa, will assume the position of executive head of business enterprise from 1 March 2017, with responsibility for developing and selling enterprise products for multinationals across Africa.

Finally, Bernice Samuels has been named as group executive of marketing. She re-joins the company after previously serving as chief marketing officer for MTN in South Africa, before leaving for a similar role at First National Bank and then joining brewer SABMiller.

In a statement, Phuthuma Nhleko, executive chairman of MTN, said the appointments were part of large scale transformational and operational review process.

The company has fallen on hard times recently, after agreeing to pay a fine of NGN330 billion ($1.08 billion) for failing to cut off unregistered SIM cards in Nigeria.

It is also facing a parliamentary investigation into whether it unlawfully repatriated $14 billion in funds from the same country between 2006 and 2016.

Along with today’s three new appointments and incoming chief Shuter, MTN also hired Ralph Mupita in October as its new CFO and executive director.