Job Title: Head of Design & Planning

Department: Design

Reports To: Delivery Operations Director

Main Responsibilities

Here at Freedom Fibre, we are currently expanding our team, and this has created an exciting new opportunity for a Head of Design & Planning to join the business.

Reporting into the Delivery Operations Director you will own and manage a specific part of an essential build cycle. in doing so you will be responsible for managing a team that ensures Freedom Fibre succeeds in its corporate objectives in providing fast and reliable fibre to everyone.

Freedom Fibre offers the chance to grow as a person and in a professional capacity and prides itself on a sustainable work environment that provides flexible working and support throughout the entire business.

Key results area:

• With a passion for technology, the candidate will work with the Delivery Operations Director to design, create, implement and deliver a robust and clear strategy for the department in line with business objectives.
• Using their broad knowledge of the telecoms industry, the candidate will act as the point of escalation for any identified issues or improvements across the department.
• Build relationships with other departments within Freedom Fibre to ensure a smooth design, deployment and operation of the network.
• To work closely with other departments to ensure Change Management is communicated effectively.
• While happy to challenge existing processes, the candidate will be responsible for creating and owning documents and processes that provide guidance and structure for the wider business.
• Responsible for the personal and career development of the team, including training in an outsourced environment with remote engineers.
• The candidate will lead design partnership meetings and maintain a strong contractor / supplier relationship
• Continuous evaluation of the existing build areas is required to identify potential B2B build areas, while supporting external projects and internal business projects as and when required.
• Provide reports for Delivery Operations Director and the wider business on progress and issues

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential:

• Strong understanding of infrastructure type projects
• Understanding of managing end to end delivery of a portfolio of projects
• Strong evidence of people management skills
• Strong commercial and contractual awareness

Desirable:

• Ideally educated to a BSc with an electronics or computing background, however relevant experience will be considered

Relevant Experience

Essential:

• Experience within the telecoms industry
• Previous people management experience
• Proficient in Microsoft packages including Excel/Word/Powerpoint & Projects

Desirable:

• Experience with planning tools such as QGIS or APX

Aptitude, skills and abilities

Essential:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Good numerical and computer literacy skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to work on own initiative with little or no supervision.
• Ability to supervise others in a supportive manner.
• Ability to achieve results through others.
• Problem solving skills.
• Work well under pressure.
• Analytical thinking skills.
• Precise and diligent.
• Good organisation and planning skills.
• Ability to adapt to changing situations and make sound decisions accordingly.

Freedom Fibre recognise the service provided by recruitment agencies and as such have a Preferred 2nd tier Supplier List, with whom terms of business have been agreed. Only suppliers who have signed up to these terms can place candidates with Freedom Fibre and will receive instruction directly from us to do so. Freedom Fibre is therefore unable to consider speculative CV's or proposals from any other third party and any speculative CV's or proposals being sent into the organisation will be treated as gifts.

As such, Freedom Fibre reserves the right to directly contact any candidates who have been speculatively submitted by a third party and shall therefore not be liable for any fees whatsoever should it choose to engage the candidate’s services. Furthermore, speculative submission of candidate CV's does not establish a right of representation should the same candidate’s details also be submitted by a Freedom Fibre Preferred 2nd tier Supplier or independently by the candidate themselves.

Submission of any unsolicited CV's and proposals to Freedom Fibre will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of these terms and agreement that these terms are the totality of any commercial or contractual relationship whatsoever in respect of the candidate(s) whose unsolicited CV's were sent.