Services Planning Principal Expert

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Marketing departments of CBU and EBU to finalize deployment plans in accordance with approved CAPEX, ensuring strategic alignment and resource optimization with alignment with FOM
• Facilitate deployment strategies for FTTH/GPON and related OLTs, aiming for advanced network capabilities and enhanced service delivery
• Create plans for the replacement of fixed legacy network elements and migration to Modernize network, focusing on modernization and efficiency
• Introduce Fixed Services protections to ensure adhering to Design principles
• Develop connectivity plans for mobile sites using fiber/MW, based on comprehensive planning to ensure robust network infrastructure
• Conduct GIS and site surveys if needed in targeted areas of interest to gather critical data for planning and development
• Develop detailed plans, including ISOW and NE, to meet the yearly demand of BUs, covering all aspects of OSP & ISP deployment within city and exchange plans
• Manage selecting sites for backbone transport network deployments, including internal data network needs, and design new long‑distance & junction links & rings, DWDM networks
• Manage upgrade of national transport route capacity and exchange of blinded fibers
• Prior experience in Fixed Services Planning within the telecommunications industry
• Communicate with TSA sector on yearly roadmap for asset management implementation
• Prepare and distribute integrated fixed services deployment plans, incorporating ISP deployment strategies and ISP‑OSP integration, across all regions
• Establish integrated guidelines for fixed services deployment planning, ensuring consistency and clarity in project execution
• Manage scope and budget meticulously throughout all planning stages, updating yearly project scopes and budgets in planning systems in line with Smart CAPEX outputs
• Organize interfacing with BUs departments regarding customer location issues, providing high‑level OMS cost estimates for approvals post‑PD issuance
• Facilitate internal & external relevant stakeholders concerning new town, civil, and utility developments, to ensure efficient planning and cost management
• Ensure quality control over all rollout PDs, including those for FTTH, FTTM, MSAN, etc, maintaining high standards in project documentation
• Develop comprehensive and integrated fixed services network deployment plans for technologies like FTTx/GPON, xDSL, and OLT expansion, as well as MSAN and mobile sites fiber connectivity

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in fixed services planning and related telecommunications deployments
• Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering or Electronics

• Seniority level:
  Director
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Information Technology, Strategy/Planning, and Business Development
• Industries:
  Telecommunications, IT Services and IT Consulting, and IT System Data Services
• Location:
  
  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia