Lumen Technologies · 15 hours ago

Manager Network Planning

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$94K/yr - $126K/yr

6+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Coordinates, completes, and oversees job-related activities and assignments for Core Long Haul Planning team by developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders; supporting plans and initiatives to meet Customer and business needs; identifying and communicating goals and objectives; building accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; identifying and addressing improvement opportunities; and demonstrating adaptability and promoting continuous learning.

Ensures Long Haul Waves capacity requirements are met with the highest quality and most efficient cost structure by adhering to expense and capital budgets, network augments, upgrades and decommissioning activities; balancing work volumes; supporting operational issues; monitoring and adjusting voice network capacity technology, lifecycle and regulatory legal changes to the network.

Remains up to date on the latest industry developments by subscribing to industry journals, attending industry conferences; analyzing competitor products and services; interacting with customers; networking with industry professionals; and remaining flexible & open to change to see where trends are going.

Builds talent muscle by developing direct report employees, formulating midyear and end of year reviews; conducting assessments; coaching employees of all level; succession planning; ensuring employees receive appropriate training for both job related knowledge and compliance activities; creating appropriate job responsibilities as the work and functions required by the business evolve; ensuring employees performance is measured, feedback is provided, calibration sessions are conducted and the bar is set high.

Oversees network capacity trends, processes and systems by partnering with direct reports and supporting organizations to understand current network capacity concerns, solutions, costs, and recommendations; communicating concerns and issues to the leadership team to help them understand future actions, optimization, network augments, etc.; supporting direct reports in resolving process and system issues; partner with direct reports to identify improvements that can be made in process/systems to make work flow smoother, better, and faster.

Develops relationships across the company by collaborating with BU partners in product management, technology strategy and development, finance, vendor technical management, other planning disciplines, engineering, operations to ensure expense, capital budgets, and facility cost objectives are built sufficiently to support anticipated growth and to deploy new features, functionality, and upgrades as required; monitors and provides guidance if trends are showing a gap between budgets and actuals throughout the year.

Other duties as assigned.

Qualification

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DWDM networksTraffic analysisCapacity ManagementVendor negotiationsMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft PowerPointCost savings initiativesCapital budgetingCiena 6500Infinera DTN-XNokia 1830Capital ForecastingSenior Level PresentationsSQL ScriptingMasters in BusinessMS in Computer Science

Required

Typically 6+ years related experience and a Bachelor's Degree OR 4+ years related experience with Master’s degree.

4 years experience with DWDM networks including traffic analysis, Planning & Engineering of new systems, Capacity Management, or Hyperscaler DWDM capacity deployments.

2-3 years experience with vendor negotiations

2-3 year of proficiency with Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint

2-3 years’ experience with cost savings initiatives and capital budgeting