Head of Deployment

Lead the delivery of programmes that truly make an impact. As our Head of Deployment , you'll take ownership of large scale, complex, multi year client programmes, guiding them from initial concept through to successful completion. Working at the heart of our organisation, you'll build trusted relationships with clients and stakeholders, providing strategic leadership while ensuring every programme delivers measurable value, exceptional service and long term success.

This is a role for someone who thrives in complexity and enjoys turning ambitious plans into tangible results. You'll coordinate diverse internal teams, external partners and suppliers, bringing people together behind a shared objective while balancing commercial performance, delivery excellence and customer expectations. Through proactive planning, effective resource management and strong leadership, you'll ensure programmes are delivered on time, within budget and to the highest quality standards, creating outcomes that make a lasting difference for both our clients and our business.

This is a hybrid position based at our welcoming offices in Manchester , with three days in the office and two days working from home.

We welcome applications from everyone. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know, we’re here to support you.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and deliver all tower infrastructure and network deployment activities, including site construction, colocation, Build To Suit (BTS) installations, works & studies and site replacements, ensuring projects meet technical, operational, and customer requirements
• Internal stakeholders alignment across programmes specifically with Commercial to ensure alignment between customer expectation and programme capacity to ensure a seamless e2e experience across the operational functions.
• Management of programme level milestones to achieve overall Programme timeline taking effective mitigation actions to ensure programme milestones are achieved
• Leadership and oversight of Cellnex UK Tower adaptation programmes and activity. Managing colocation, modification, Installation Services and reroofing projects, ensuring standardized processes, on‑time execution, and coordination of technical, safety, and operational requirements, including tower reinforcement.
• Active management of resource capacity against forecast and actual demand, execution of delivery resource strategy (FTE, DRC, shared group resource & 3PP) ensuring alignment with budgets
• Jointly with sourcing function, select and manage external partners (SWC etc.,) to form part of a cohesive end to end delivery capability.

We Offer

• Step into a role that values your expertise and supports your career development.
• Be part of a collegiate team that supports a growth mindset.
• Amongst other benefits -
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• 20% target annual bonus
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption leave offering; 26 weeks full basic pay for Maternity leave, followed by 13 weeks SMP – Enhanced leave is intended for all parents, whatever your family setup may be.
• Income protection & Life assurance
• Hybrid working model (3 days in the office, 2 days remote)

Experience

• The successful candidate will be an experienced senior operations or programme manager with excellent communications skills with a track record of complex mobile network infrastructure delivery.
• The basics of excellent programme management – rigour, control, issues and risk management
• Proven experience leading large teams, including through indirect leadership structures.
• Demonstratable commercial acumen
• Ability to deputise for CTO on an as needed basis

Don’t worry if you don’t meet every requirement. We’re building a workplace where everyone can thrive.

You’ll enjoy this role if

You are highly commercial and customer minded, with a passion for over delivering against customer expectation.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Cellnex Telecom is a leader in communication, technology and innovation and employs over 2000 people. We want everyone to feel valued by creating a culture of inclusion and belonging. We do this by empowering all our people to be authentic and share their ideas and experiences to ensure we have diversity of perspective. Only by doing this will we be a truly innovative forward-thinking organisation.

Who Are We?

Cellnex is Europe’s and the UK’s largest and fastest-growing independent owner and neutral operator of wireless telecoms infrastructure and is integral to the successful rollout of 5G. With the wireless infrastructure foundation that we deliver across rural and urban areas, Cellnex UK helps to connect everyone, everywhere - reducing digital inequality and supporting socio-economic growth. Our networks and solutions are built to be fit for now and the future so that the UK can prosper. We are a business built on commercial and technical innovation, ambition and sustainable growth.

We provide high-speed connectivity for sports stadia, shopping centres, campuses, railways, ports and even in the air. Whenever you're out in public, and you call a loved one, scroll through social media, watch a funny video or check if your train is running on time, there's a high chance that our infrastructure is enabling your connection.

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Authenticity of Assessment

Our recruitment process is designed to assess each candidate's own knowledge, skills, judgement, and experience. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, candidates should not use generative AI tools or third-party assistance to answer interview questions, complete assessments, or produce work submitted as part of the selection process.

If we believe that AI or other external assistance has been used in a way that compromises the integrity of the assessment, we reserve the right to investigate this and, where appropriate, withdraw the application from the recruitment process.

Agency Notice

Please note that agency support is not required for this role, and unsolicited candidate submissions will not be considered. All candidate referrals must be submitted through our Applicant Tracking System (ATS).