The Senior Manager, Network Planning & Development role is responsible for connectivity requirements gathering, fiber due diligence and documentation, cost analysis, and commercial negotiations with fiber providers. Collaborates with program managers specializing in data center & network infrastructure and will need to leverage strong business acumen and technically versatility.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Establish a repeatable fiber due diligence program for Europe supporting both QTS & Blackstone driven data center development projects.
Owns customer requirements gathering and documentation to pre-qualify sites for particular use cases.
Works collaboratively with parallel teams inside QTS’ and Blackstone, fiber providers, and customers to create best in class connectivity solutions that are intuitive, cost effective, well designed, and easily digestible.
Lead business meetings, identify and communicate connectivity challenges that are uncertain, costly, or potentially unsolvable.
Creates and manages a consistent output for connectivity solutions across Europe projects and communicates regularly with parallel teams and executive leadership.
Vendor management at the technical, business and executive level across all European fiber providers.
Other duties as assigned.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 10 years of experience in the telecom, datacenter, or cloud infrastructure industries.
Experience and understanding of metro, long-haul, & submarine networks throughout EMEA.
Able to articulate Data Center fiber connectivity development best practices, solves for complex engineering and diversity requirements, identify challenges & risks to the business.
Able to interpret and evaluate relevant technical addenda in telecom contracts.
Familiar with basic financial modeling to evaluate and model deal structures (fiber leases, Dedicated Internet leases, IRU’s, etc.).
The ability to document your decisions and recommendations to internal technical leadership as well as VPs, SVPs, and C-suite.
A high degree of organization and ability to manage multiple, competing priorities.
Able to travel for site due diligence trips and industry conferences as needed.
Proficient in Smartsheet, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Earth, Fiber Locator, Peering DB, & project management software.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES
Technical Project Management (preferably PMP or equivalent).
Data management, automation & implementation.
Network engineering & architecture best practices.
Considerable experience and organic knowledge of the European fiber networks.
Strong, existing supplier relationships with European fiber providers.
Deep understanding of layers 1-4 of the OSI model.
Bid management, cost analysis, and commercial negotiations.
Mentoring and team development.
Risk identification & mitigation.
Operational excellence.
TOTAL REWARDS
This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending and HSA accounts; paid holidays; paid time off; paid volunteer days; employee assistance program; tuition assistance; parental leave; military leave assistance; QTS scholarship for dependents; wellness program, and other company benefits.
This position is bonus eligible.
SKILLS (FROM SKILLS LIBRARY)
Technical expertise in network & data center technology.
Leadership, mentoring & strategic management.
Technical Project Management.
Communication & Collaboration.
Customer engagements.
Vendor engagements.
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