Connectivity Programme & Delivery Lead

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 1. Connectivity portfolio and integrated planning
Maintain the integrated connectivity roadmap and master schedule across international and subsea capacity, the domestic backbone, AI Factory attachments and operational enablement.
Translate approved strategy, architecture and contracts into charters, work packages, critical paths, milestones, dependencies, stage gates and acceptance outcomes.
Own the approved scope, schedule, cost and outcome baselines, with traceability from strategic priority to delivered service.
Build achievable plans with Architecture, Network, Commercial, Finance and business sponsors, matched to resource, supplier and funding constraints.
Maintain delivery scenarios and recommend sequencing or recovery options as demand, capacity, lead times or dependencies change.
2. Delivery governance, controls and reporting
Establish proportionate governance supported by integrated schedules, milestone plans, RAID, decision and action logs, change control and financial reporting.
Administer stage gates from mobilisation and design through commitment, implementation, service readiness, acceptance and closure.
Maintain one evidence-based view of status, critical path, forecast, cost, benefits, dependencies and residual risk across the portfolio.
Report concisely to executives, highlighting trends, exceptions, decisions required, options, trade-offs and recommended action.

3. Cross-functional coordination and execution
Establish clear accountabilities and handoffs across Architecture, Network, Commercial, Data Centres, Cloud and GPU platforms, Security, Procurement, Legal and Finance.
Lead mobilisation and delivery forums so every milestone, dependency, decision and action has an owner, due date and completion evidence.
Resolve or escalate blockers involving sites, power, facilities, permits, carriers, equipment, security, customers and operational readiness.
Coordinate resources and sequencing across concurrent initiatives while protecting critical operations and approved strategic priorities.

4. Supplier and partner delivery management
With the Commercial & Partnerships Lead, translate contracts, statements of work and service commitments into delivery plans, milestones, dependencies and acceptance criteria.
Align Firmus and supplier schedules across carriers, cable operators, equipment vendors, data centres, construction and managed services.
Challenge progress using objective evidence, track obligations and recovery actions, and escalate performance issues early.
Coordinate delivery changes, claims, variations and dependencies without assuming the authority of Commercial, Procurement, Legal or Finance.

5. Risk, financial and change control
Maintain an integrated RAID view with clear owners, due dates, mitigations, contingency triggers and escalation thresholds.
Forecast cost and schedule reliably, including commitments, actuals, accruals, estimate at completion and material variance.
Run change control that shows the impact on scope, schedule, cost, architecture, risk, benefits and operations before approval.
Develop contingencies for long-lead dependencies including fibre construction, cable delivery, permits, equipment, facility readiness and customer dates.

6. Commissioning, operational readiness and handover
Coordinate implementation, migration and cutover planning with Network, Architecture, business teams and delivery partners.
Ensure gate evidence covers testing, diversity, as-builts, inventory and CMDB data, monitoring, runbooks, spares, support, training and escalation paths.
Drive readiness reviews and defect closure so accountable owners accept services before production support.
Lead closeout, post-implementation review and benefits tracking, with lessons and unresolved actions carried into future delivery.
7. Programme leadership and continuous improvement
Give the General Manager independent, evidence-based delivery advice and surface emerging consequences before they become executive surprises.
Maintain a practical Connectivity Delivery Playbook covering plans, controls, gates, reporting, acceptance evidence and lessons learned.
Build trusted relationships across Firmus functions and external partners.
Coach workstream leads and project managers while remaining hands-on enough to test plans, challenge evidence and unblock critical work.

Extensive experience leading multi-year telecommunications, hyperscale, cloud, data-centre or criticalinfrastructure programmes at programme lead or director level.
End-to-end delivery experience across terrestrial or subsea fibre, optical transport, carrier-grade IP, data-centre interconnection and high-capacity connections.
Proven delivery of multi-vendor, capital-intensive programmes with long lead times, complex contracts and concurrent workstreams.
Strong command of integrated scheduling, critical path, RAID, cost forecasting, change control, stage gates, benefits and executive reporting.
Experience managing supplier performance against contracts, statements of work, milestones, service levels, acceptance criteria and variations.
Experience coordinating implementation, migration, commissioning, operational readiness and production handover.
Excellent communication and judgement, with the ability to influence technical, commercial and executive stakeholders and escalate constructively.
Experience delivering infrastructure for AI, high-performance computing, hyperscale cloud or other environments requiring very high bandwidth, low latency and predictable resilience.
Exposure to subsea cable systems, fibre-pair or IRU arrangements, cable landing stations, terrestrial construction, permitting and data-centre facility delivery.
Experience with planning and reporting tools such as Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Jira, Smartsheet or Power BI.
Relevant programme-management accreditation or tertiary qualification, such as MSP, PgMP, PMP or PRINCE2. Equivalent practical experience will be considered equally.