Job Description
What you’ll do
We are joining forces to create the UK’s largest mobile network, transforming customer experience through best-in-class coverage, connectivity, and reliability while building a culture and legacy to be proud of. The Network Engineering Solutions Senior Manager plays a pivotal role in aligning business strategy with operational execution across Network Engineering domains, owning end-to-end demand planning across technology, network, and commercial functions. The role leads a team of engineers, driving E2E network solutions and working closely with senior stakeholders, partners, and suppliers to capture and prioritise requirements and deliver outcomes to time, budget, and quality. Positioned at the intersection of operations and innovation, this is a career-defining opportunity to shape future network solutions that enable long-term agility, customer satisfaction, and competitive advantage.
* Manage, mentor, and develop a high-performing Network Engineering team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
* Drive the end-to-end design and architectural strategy across the Network Engineering domain, ensuring scalable, secure, and future-proof solutions.
* Own the end-to-end demand management process, from intake to prioritisation to portfolio allocation.
* Own the wholesale relationship and strategic wholesale outcomes.
* Own and lead the end-to-end demand management process, from intake through prioritisation and allocation, across all technology, network, and commercial domains.
* Support quarterly and annual demand planning reviews with senior leadership.
* Identify systemic delivery challenges and escalate cross-functional risks to the executive leadership team.
* Develop and manage delivery plans with internal/external stakeholders and partners to enable delivery of our requirements and the contracted outcomes to budget, time and quality.
* Provide technical and delivery leadership and direction to the team and to our partners.
Qualifications
Who you are
* 5+ years of leading teams in Telecom functions and infrastructure
* Proven experience of managing teams, providing decision making and problem-solving leadership
* Proven ability to set technical delivery direction and quality/ standards for delivery and design
* Proven ability to communicate with multiple stakeholders within the organization and to act as the liaison between the business, other technical communities and the 3rd party delivery teams to ensure the delivery of the business requirements and proven capability to communicate the realisation of business benefits, articulate complex problem statements simply and manage escalations through successful resolution.
* Technical Literacy – Deep understanding of cross domain network solutions.
Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly?
We know that everyone is unique, with multiple aspects to their identity and different experiences behind them. We are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.
Additional Information
What we offer
We care about our people’s success by offering great pay, bonuses, up to 28 days off plus bank holidays, and paid time for charity work. You can personalise our benefits for you and your family, like discounts, vouchers, a pension plan and loads more. We help with your career through our amazing learning tools and top-notch parental leave policies.
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Need to know
We are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators standards.
We believe everyone should have the opportunity to interview for a role that matches their skills. In collaboration with our Talent, Diversity & Inclusion teams and our employee-led DEI Networks, we identified a range of reasonable adjustments to help you feel comfortable and perform at your best self during the interview process. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please contact your recruiter directly or email jobs@three.co.uk for guidance.
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