Confidential mandate
Telecom Network Capital Prioritisation Director — Consulting
Planned Hiring / New
A mobile operator commissions a sixteen-week capital-prioritisation model connecting coverage, capacity, energy, customer experience and revenue evidence before approving its next network portfolio and capital envelope.
The mandate
The problem is that coverage, capacity and modernisation programmes use different benefit measures, producing a capital list larger than the approved envelope. The operator needs one comparable portfolio method.
The output is a reconciled baseline, geospatial need model, common benefit and risk score, energy and operating-cost layer, prioritised portfolio, scenario tool and board allocation paper.
Milestone one is due 30 September 2026 with data and benefit baseline; milestone two on 31 October with scored candidate investments and scenarios; milestone three on 30 November with accepted portfolio and reproducible model.
The Network Investment Board accepts when candidate totals reconcile to finance, sampled geographies reproduce source metrics, benefit logic is applied consistently, scenarios fit three capital envelopes and CTO plus CFO approve the final ranking.
The operator provides site, traffic, performance, energy, complaint, churn, revenue and cost data plus candidate project definitions. Network and finance analysts work in one controlled model repository.
Why this is external work
Network domains advocate projects using measures that favour their technology. An independent portfolio team can normalise evidence without owning a build programme. The requirement ends once the board can reproduce and rerun the allocation model.
What you will own
- Reconcile candidate scope, cost and baseline measures for milestone one.
- Link network need to customer, revenue, resilience and energy evidence.
- Create common scoring without erasing mandatory coverage or compliance investments.
- Test priorities across three capital envelopes and demand scenarios.
- Facilitate technical challenges to geospatial and benefit assumptions.
- Document overrides with board rationale and portfolio consequence.
- Transfer the milestone-three model, ranked portfolio and rerun guide.
Candidate qualifications
- 22–28 years in telecom network planning, strategy, finance or transformation.
- Direct responsibility for national radio or transport capital prioritisation.
- Experience connecting network performance to customer and commercial outcomes.
- Strong geospatial, scenario and portfolio-economics capability.
- Evidence of reallocating capital across competing technical domains.
- Board-level communication with CTO and CFO stakeholders.
Non-negotiables
- No equipment-vendor commission or implementation bid.
- All scoring logic reproducible in client-owned tools.
- Gurugram attendance for data lock and three board reviews.
- Mandatory investments clearly separated from discretionary ranking.
- 49 words maximum. Which network capital portfolio did you reprioritise, and what customer evidence changed the ranking?
- 49 words maximum. How would you compare coverage, capacity and energy projects without distorting mandatory work?
- 49 words maximum. Which site, customer and finance data must reconcile before milestone one?
This mandate is confidential. The client is named only under a mutual NDA, and your own record is never listed, sold or shown to a company under your name until you release it for this specific mandate.