Lisbon or London, this role can be executed anywhere. It’s likely travel will be involved between our EU sites and the team are based cross locations.

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

As the Head of Enterprise Networks within Group Cloud & Infra, you will be accountable for the successful transformation and modernisation the Enterprise Networks, creating a stable, reliable and predictable foundation, that underpins Sky’s Cloud Strategy, Information Systems and Workplace connectivity, in all markets (UK, Italy and Germany) and with a team of 40.

What you’ll do:

• Modernise the area, reducing the significant current Tech Debt, in an ambitious transformation program, creating a modern network, secure, virtualized and Software defined, with the maturity and scale required by a leader in Entertainment and media in Europe.

• Achieve a level of excellence in stability on the network, with the necessary resilience built in, and the proper level of readiness and skillset to respond to incidents

• Harmonize the teams and the Enterprise Networks in all the territories (UK, DE,IT)

• Provide senior stakeholder management and represent EN on strategic programmes and projects.

• Increase Customer orientation, build relationships with the business functions across Sky to align on prioritisation, planning and delivery.

• Own and lead the network transformation programme, executing on time and budget, proactively facilitate the teams working collaboratively (Matrix delivery).

• Manage the EN capex budget, forecasting and challenges

• As a senior member of the Cloud&Infra team, drive wider people and improvement initiatives in support of the C&I strategy.

What you’ll bring:

• Enterprise or Telco Networking expertise: Candidate must have deep skills and extensive experience in Telco grade Networks.

• Transformation expertise and experience: Candidate must had previous experience leading successful Network transformation projects and programmes across multiple business stakeholders, objectives and technology.

• Team Leadership: Extensive experience and track record of managing teams to understand and deliver complex solutions in your own team and across an internal matrix.

• Advanced problem solving and troubleshooting skills, with an always on 24/7 mind set, to lead the team in a best in class incident resolution

• Working in a dynamic environment: Enjoys working in an innovative and creative environment and is able to manage ambiguity and influence multiple stackeholders.

• Senior Stakeholder Management: Candidate must have an excellent and proven track record of having established successful business relationships with stakeholders at Head of Level and Director.

• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written. both verbal and written.

• Budget management and accountability in the range of £5-£10m

• Objectives setting: team and personal development.

Team Overview

Our experts working in Group Communications & Infrastruture (C&I) are leading the way in building a world class Broadband Provider, managing our Corporate IT Estate including Datacenters, Computing Storage Databases, designing and operating the Broadcast and Enterprise Networks, and building the Private and Public Cloud solutions that support our commercial propositions, including linear, on demand and steaming TV, whole across Sky, on the markets were we operate.

The rewards:

There’s a reason people can’t stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place

• A generous pension package

• Private healthcare

• Discounted mobile and broadband

• Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

Where you’ll work:

Lisbon or London, this role can be executed anywhere. It’s likely travel will be involved between our EU sites and the team are based cross locations.

Inclusion:

We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.

At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we are happy to talk flexible working.

And we’ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.