Senior Network Modeling & Strategy Planner

About Lumen Technologies

Lumen is the trusted network for AI, transforming how businesses connect, secure, and scale in an AI-driven world. By connecting people, data, and applications quickly, securely, and effortlessly, we help organizations move faster and unlock what's next.

The Role

The Network Strategic Solutions team is responsible for building and testing Lumen's network strategy plan to support demand growth fueled by datacenter connectivity, cloud access, and AI workloads. This function links network assets and capabilities into an operational plan, executing against monetization and growth objectives while steering the company towards its strategic priorities. You will model various scenarios with changing input from customer demand and investment opportunities to build the most relevant fiber transport network, and manage demand ingestion points and modeling into a complete national network plan with operational recommendations including network investment strategies and customer targeting.

Main Responsibilities

• Partner with customer facing teams to align key customer demands across fiber, critical infrastructure and lit solutions
• Model network investment options inclusive of fiber builds, leased fiber options, critical infrastructure and M&A options
• Support the creation and maintenance of multi-year network expansion and investment plans that align to strategic priorities
• Support valuation of strategic partnerships available in the market
• Model revenue opportunity and competitive threats across network investments
• Partner with peer planning departments to simplify the network story into easy to consume business milestones and decision points
• Optimize large customer deals by identifying investment synergies and cost reduction strategies to increase financial flexibility
• Simplify complex engineering principles into concise business outcomes through communication and data visualization
• Act as primary consultant to leadership detailing technical requirements and specifications necessary to obtain solutions
• Create requirements for data science and analytics teams to build quantitative modeling to support scenario modeling
• Partner with GIS analysis ecosystem to build relevant tooling and visualizations to communicate network capabilities and strategy