MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in engineering related field or equivalent experience
• 15+ years of experience working within a network supply chain environment for an operator, hyperscaler, or dark fiber provider
• 5+ years experience as a people manager
• Experience recruiting, developing, and retaining top performing teams
• Understanding of the dark fiber market, commercial, and contractual requirements
• Experience developing and negotiating multi year strategic sourcing plans
• Effective communication with experience presenting and delivering content to leadership teams
• Organizational leadership/team development

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Proven track record of building processes and tools to scale a team’s efficiency across capacity demand pillars.
• Managing teams with dark fiber commercial execution experience.
• Executive level relationships across the North America dark fiber providers.
• Software/Product Development experience as developer and/or manager.
• P&L responsibility, experience with producing financial reports/insights, budget planning and financial management.
  For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position.

• Drive long-term network acquisition strategies for North America
• Manage and grow a team of network acquisition ICs, and participate in their career development
• Accelerate the team’s efficiency by collaborating with the systems development, planning, engineering, and deployment teams to increase tooling/automation and refine processes
• Leads delivery of team goals in alignment with company objectives, through metrics, clear prioritization and accountability management
• Work with finance teams to forecast capital and operational expenditures for network expansion
• Provide direction and enable ICs to drive strategic acquisition strategy with vendors, and the team
• Drive organization team structure and establish clear lines of accountability across initiatives
• Develop collaboration across key partner teams (Engineering, Planning, Finance, Legal and Deployment)
• Strategic execution and problem solving
• Measurement and operational delivery
• Capacity to travel up to 30% of time