Director - E2E Integration

I am urgently recruiting for a Director level consultant to perform a leadership role on E2E integration and delivery programmes within the VOD/IPTV/CATV/STB/DTV arena

Job purpose
The role is a key leadership and delivery position responsible for the Technology service implementation of Entertainment Products & Services across Eu countries in order to enable the delivery of revenue growth.

This individual will be the go to service & technology integration contact for our Products organization for both in flight product developments and our overall technology strategy to support growth and customer proposition plans around the Entertainment portfolio.

This role is a key leadership position in the Technology group that is responsible for the end-to-end technology and service implementation of Products & Services across all Go To Market teams and therefore should ensure synergies in our overall delivery and operating model by working closely with peers within Technology and across the wider Technology & Innovation group.

This role will lead a diverse team of 20+ individuals through technology and service development, build management, integration and testing activities across Europe and must inspire and motivate in a way that leverages the collective talent across all markets and align individuals around the Customer Value Proposition.

This role is pivotal in bringing together E2E products and services at the design activity level, including drawing in IT, Core, Access, Mobile & Technology groups such that we build a compelling and differentiated service across the entire customer journey, not just the core product functionality, with built-in quality, robustness and operational excellence instrumentation and operating model design.

This role must also focus on achieving wider Technology objectives around scale, cost efficiency, speed to market and quality.

The role is accountable for implementing projects and services through their technology delivery and operations life cycle ensuring timely delivery of technically ready products and services that can be taken to market in countries across the companies footprint.

Required skills and experience:

MSc degree level in a relevant area (network-, communications- or consumer electronics engineering
Fluent spoken and written English - ideally other European languages
*10+ years of experience in the cable, satellite or telco industry
*10+ years experience in End-to-End System Integration of B2C video services
*10+ Experience and knowledge of CATV technologies, STB and DTV Middleware platforms and Video Delivery technologies
*5+ years' line management experience with budget responsibility and senior management reporting
*5+ years experience with working in an international and distributed team environment
*5+ years experience in delivery management of large Pan-European B2C implementation programs, with extensive knowledge and experience of technology development and delivery management methodologies.