Metro Fiber - Business & Vendor Developer, Network Planning and Acquisition
Job ID: 3156788 | Amazon Data Services Ireland Limited
Key job responsibilities
- Serve as a key member of the EMEA Network Development team, helping to drive overall Network Infrastructure strategy.
- Work closely with service owners to understand product roadmaps and devise programs to meet capacity requirements.
- Develop network infrastructure plans for approval by internal customers and stakeholders.
- Identify vendors and develop commercial solutions that solve for wavelengths, dark fiber and other network infrastructure capacity.
- Negotiate key vendor contracts from a business and technical perspective in partnership with AWS legal teams.
- Track and maintain information on overall telecom market segment trends and developments in terms of vendor technologies, coverage, cost and deal structures.
- Work closely with finance partners, collaborating on budget creation, business case development, deal analysis, and supplier invoicing.
- Participate in strategic network topology planning for our global backbone and metro networks.
- Work closely with network planning to ensure that acquisitions meet our topology requirements and budgets.
- Anticipate bottlenecks, manage risk and escalations, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
Basic Qualifications
- Experience working in a network planning, network construction/implementation, or commercial implementation role at an ISP, telecoms operator, or hyperscaler.
- Experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving.
- Travel up to 20% of the time.
- A Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Networking, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Minimum 5‐years telecommunications industry experience in procurement and negotiations of dark fiber and wavelengths.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations while prioritizing competing demands to deliver on time for our customers.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working across multiple international markets in EMEA.
- Experience interacting with senior executives and other management within your own company and externally; and working across commercial, technical, domestic and international arms of an organization.
- Ability to speak multiple languages.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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