Strategic Initiatives Manager

Job Description

You’ll join your colleagues in our London office at least 2 days a week.

As the UK’s largest fibre-only network, and its only proven wholesale challenger, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.

Designed from scratch for the internet, our network is greener, more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed, value and service, they help businesses to innovate, provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth, locally and nationally.

What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!

Joining us as a Strategic Initiatives Manager

As a Strategic Initiatives Manager, you will be empowered to make a significant impact, contributing to the overall success and growth of the company. This role offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of strategic decision-making within our organization, giving you the chance to influence key business outcomes, drive innovation, and lead transformative projects.

You’ll receive a competitive salary, a car allowance, a performance-related bonus, and a range of benefits to support your financial, physical, and mental well-being.

This is some of what you can expect to be doing:

• Leverage your extensive experience with customer, financial, and technical data to conduct market research and analysis, driving strategic goals
• Lead and support strategic initiatives with a focus on data-driven decision-making, utilising your excellent data extraction, transformation, and modelling skills
• Advise on market trends, competitors, opportunities, and threats to support strategic goal planning and outline company strategy, priorities, and objectives
• Assist and deputise for the Head of Rollout Optimisation, emphasising data management and strategic planning through robust data analysis and modelling

What you’ll bring to the role

You will have proven experience in strategic planning or consulting, with expertise in infrastructure, utilities, or management consultancy. 

You’ll also have:

• Proficiency in SQL, R, QGIS for data extraction, transformation, and modelling, with advanced Excel skills for analysis and visualisation.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with experience influencing C-suite members and effectively highlighting risks and opportunities during change management initiatives.
• Strong organisational skills, project management expertise, and strategy experience in European Telco or consumer markets, ideally in infrastructure or utilities

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We’re endorsed by WORK180 and we’re a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant and we’re a Disability Confident Employer. Working together with our Employee Networks, we’re wholly committed to ensuring that our people’s voices are heard, and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre. If you’d like to explore our culture and values, check out The CityFibre Way.

What you can expect from us

We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us, as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a day off on your birthday, a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice, a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, and supportive family friendly and menopause policies.

Additional Information

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at [email protected]. We want to help!