Management consultant - Fibre and Backhaul Network Consultant

Management consultant -  Fibre and Backhaul Network Consultant 

London

Career Level 9

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge. 

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As a team: 

Within our Software & Platforms Industry & Enterprise team, we work with software and SaaS businesses, from high-growth scale-ups to established global vendors, helping them navigate the strategic and operational challenges that define success in a rapidly evolving industry.

Our clients are software businesses facing consequential challenges: AI-native competitors rewriting competitive dynamics, commercial models shifting from subscription to consumption and outcome-based pricing, hyperscalers reshaping distribution, and B2B buyers demanding measurable workflow outcomes rather than product features. We help them respond through GTM redesign, lead-to-cash transformation, commercial model evolution, and large-scale B2B operational change.

Much of our work centres on B2B growth, product reinvention, customer lifecycle transformation, and revenue operations, helping software businesses build the strategies, processes, and operating models they need to grow efficiently and compete in an AI-driven market.

As a team:

Our 8,000+ strong team of Network Professionals combine deep business insight and technology supporting CSPs (communication service providers); Technology and Hyperscale clients to reinvent, modernise and operate their networks. Increasingly this means automation and AI-driven operations. This work sits within Industry and Enterprise, with AI and data built into delivery. There is no one player who can bring together the scale & e2e capabilities that we can. This is what our clients’ current challenges and opportunities demand of us and it is what differentiates us from other consulting firms in the market.

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and on ground-breaking opportunities and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job. 

As a Fibre and Backhaul Network Consultant, you will:

• Plan, build, launch and operate network and platforms to streamline operations, minimize time to market, and reduce costs

• Understand the design and implementation of service-provider processes.

• Evaluate processes and technologies to optimise network planning, set-up and deployment

• Work across teams and geographies.

• Manage client relationships at senior stakeholder levels.

• Lead change management for network construction processes.

• Plan the passive infrastructure build for the Wide Area Network.

• Monitor and report on technical and commercial performance.

• Use automation and autonomous operations to reduce CAPEX/OPEX, including headcount.

Job qualifications

We are looking for at least 1-4+ years of experience across several of the following, with depth in your specialism and breadth across the rest:

• Fiber/Copper/Cable Network Architecture and xTTH technologies

• Transport architecture (SDH, MPLS, IP, DWDM, x-PON)

• Standards and frameworks for fixed and transport networks (ITU-T, IEEE, MEF, Broadband Forum, TM Forum)

• AI and automation in fixed networks: automated planning and assurance, predictive maintenance, and gen-AI

• E2E program management

• Fixed and transport network design (high and low level)

• Network build, commercial and vendor management, including documentation

• Operating model design and command-centre definition: organisation, process and sourcing, aligned to eTOM and TM Forum

• Fixed-market context: fibre roll-out and consolidation, wholesale and open-access, and UK regulation

• Network Deployment - Architecture / Planning / Deployment/Analytics

• Operations - Activation / Fulfilment / Field Installation / Service Management /Use of Agentic-AI to drive operations

• Digitization of Network - Next Gen services / Digital Transformation/Network Virtualisation

• Business case and value: investment cases, OPEX and CAPEX modelling, total cost of ownership.

• Consulting skills: structured problem-solving and clear communication.

We also welcome strong transformation and delivery professionals from fixed, wholesale or transport backgrounds who can build the technical depth.

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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