Head of Access Planning in London

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for rationalizing costs across the Access & Aggregation network; identifying opportunities to re-arrange existing deployments to reduce costs in the near to medium term.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure that the guidance used for new network deployments are cost effective over the medium to long term.
• Forecast & initiate upgrades needed to the network to keep pace with the company's growth plans.
• Manage the relationship with Data Centre partners and with Openreach for the provision of space, power and interconnects.
• Drive cost efficiency (principally) across the Access and Aggregation network layers.
• Understand the cost drivers particularly across the Access & Aggregation portions of the network, understand how decisions taken on one area can drive efficiency/costs in another.
• Work with other stakeholders to optimize spend across the network area as a whole to ensure overall efficiency.
• Develop (or support the development) business cases which optimize overall spend.
• Manage functional expertise across PON, Network Facilities, & Physical Design teams.
• PON Architecture - ensure that guidance on the use of PON fiber within Hyperoptic is clearly documented and suitably "down streamed" to those involved in planning and execution.
• Use the PON team expertise to make full use of Hyperoptic assets (where cost effective replacing third party assets and hence reducing overall costs).
• Planning and Network Facilities Management - manage the relationships with Data Centre partners and BT Openreach (in relation to space, power and cross connects), maintain sufficient capacity to support growth while controlling costs.
• Report on Capacity utilization (particularly Access & Aggregation backhaul, but also Peering & Transit plus other elements), identifying and initiating action to avoid capacity bottlenecks.
• Physical Design - maintain detailed documentation of equipment deployment at exchanges and within Data Centers. Ensure that equipment is deployed with adequate consideration taken for power and cooling. Strive to define standards that drive "best practice".
• Develop the people within your team to maintain the appropriate skills mix across the group.

Qualifications

• Degree/HND or equivalent qualification in a relevant Telecommunications discipline, and/or equivalent experience - DESIRABLE
• ITIL qualification - DESIRABLE
• Previous experience of working in telecommunications industry in the UK (broadband experience preferred but not essential)
• Creating and managing budgets
• Practical experience working planning deployment of optical network or active telecoms equipment
• Prior experience working with Openreach (knowledge of LLU preferred) and major Data Centre providers - DESIRABLE
• Commercially astute, able to identify TCO and compare benefits between different options. Able to understand the key points from contracts and agreements
• Confident presenting to Exec level and negotiating with external suppliers