At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead RAN transformation projects and provide technical advice to top operators.
- Company: Join a global team of 8,000+ network professionals in a vibrant consulting firm.
- Benefits: Access to training, competitive salary, and opportunities for career advancement.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with boundaryless opportunities for growth and innovation.
- Why this job: Work with cutting-edge tech like 5G and AI while making a real impact.
- Qualifications: Experience in network management and strong communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
Access Network Management Consultant Location: London Career Level 9: Consultant
As a team: Our 8,000+ strong team of Network Professionals combine deep business insight with hands-on technology expertise. We support Tier-1 operators and technology vendors through large-scale RAN transformation programmes — from strategy and design through to deployment, optimisation, and ongoing operations. We leverage emerging technologies including Open RAN, 5G Advanced, 6G, Satellite, Generative AI, and Autonomous Networks to deliver measurable business outcomes for our clients.
This is what our clients’ current challenges and opportunities demand of us and it is what differentiates us from other consulting firms in the market. You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.
If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you.
As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and on ground-breaking opportunities and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.
As an Access Network Consultant:
- You will sit at the heart of our RAN practice, acting as a trusted technical advisor to some of the world's leading operators while managing delivery across complex, multi-workstream engagements.
- You will be equally comfortable in front of a client presenting a business case as you are deep in a technical design session with a vendor engineering team.
- This role spans the full RAN value chain: pre-sales solutioning, architecture definition, programme delivery, performance optimisation, and the application of AI/ML and Autonomous Network techniques to transform how networks are operated.
- Support end-to-end RAN transformation programmes for mobile network operators, covering multi-generation technology migration (2G → 5G SA) and Open RAN adoption roadmaps, acting as the primary client-facing technical authority.
- Shape transformation business cases, including TCO modelling, NPV/ROI analysis, vendor benchmarking, and funding scenarios, to C-suite and board-level stakeholders.
- Support pre-sales activities, solution design for O-RAN, SD-WAN, Satellite, and private 5G engagements, including RFI/RFP responses, sizing, and commercial pricing support.
- Define target RAN architectures aligned with operator strategy, integrating O-RAN, cloud-native and virtualised RAN (vRAN/CU-DU split) principles.
- Own technical delivery, manage deployment and testing phases across workstreams, stakeholder dependencies, risks, and quality gates to ensure on-time, on-budget outcomes.
- Drive network optimisation, KPI baselining, root cause analysis, parameter tuning, and feature activation across 4G and 5G networks, underpinned by SON and closed-loop automation.
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