Sr Manager, Fiber Market Development & JV Partnerships
Overland Park, KS - USA
Job Summary
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T-Mobiles Broadband business is scaling rapidly across both Fixed Wireless Access and Fiber and the Fiber portfolio is increasingly defined by the quality of the partnerships we form the markets we choose to enter and the rigor of the processes we use to evaluate approve and operationalize new fiber builds. This role is the functional leader responsible for all the Sr. Manager Fiber Market Development & JV Partnerships you will lead a small high-impact team responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of T-Mobiles fiber market pipeline from partner origination and data-driven market evaluation to contract negotiation operational readiness and commercial launch.You will manage a team of analysts GIS specialists and operations coordinators and you will be the primary point of accountability for ensuring that T-Mobiles fiber footprint grows in the right markets with the right partners on the right terms. You will be the source of truth across our partner relationships and be directly accountable for the pace and quality of T-Mobiles fiber market expansion.
This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in the office.
Key Responsibilities:
Fiber Market Development
- Lead the evaluation of prospective fiber builds across T-Mobiles existing and future partner networks assessing new market opportunities against current partner commitments contractual obligations and strategic priorities
- Own the market evaluation process end-to-end: coordinate GIS-based overlap analysis ML-driven penetration propensity modeling competitive landscape assessment and demographic scoring to produce defensible market recommendations
- Partner with the Broadband Data Science team to operationalize a machine learning model and ensure model outputs are translated into actionable market-level insights
- Facilitate markets through internal evaluation processes and external partner review cadences culminating in market approval by T-Mobile leadership and/or JV Board of Directors
- Develop and maintain the market scoring rubric and evaluation criteria ensuring consistency repeatability and continuous improvement as the fiber portfolio scales
- Produce market summary packages (penetration curves demographic overlays competitive positioning financial expectations) that serve both internal decision-makers and external partner stakeholders
Operations
- Own the operational infrastructure that moves markets from approved evaluation to commercial launch including market order facilitation market acceptance workflows and partner handoff processes
- Manage broadband legal tracking and prioritization: ensure all partnership agreements amendments and contract actions are tracked prioritized and progressing through Legal review within agreed SLAs
- Oversee DocuSign CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management) facilitation for all fiber partnership agreements ensuring proper routing execution and archival of contractual documents
- Design and maintain pipeline visibility tools (dashboards trackers status reports) that give internal stakeholders and external partners clear line-of-sight into where every market and deal sits in the process
- Drive cross-functional coordination across Market Development Data Science Legal Finance and partner teams to eliminate bottlenecks and maintain pipeline velocity
Partner Relationships
- Manage T-Mobiles portfolio of fiber wholesale and JV partner relationships serving as a primary commercial point of contact for ongoing partner engagement
- Lead contract amendment negotiations term extensions and commercial modifications with existing wholesale and JV partners as business needs evolve
- Partner with Corporate Development and Fiber Commercial Team on inorganic growth evaluations providing market-level intelligence partner quality assessments and competitive context that inform deal structuring
What You Will Own & Key Outcomes Measured Against
- Originate evaluate and prioritize a pipeline of new JV and wholesale partner markets that materially grow T-Mobiles fiber footprint and retail economics.
- Deliver defensible market recommendations using GIS overlap analysis penetration modeling competitive analysis and financial business cases.
- Manage partner lifecycle: qualification negotiation contract execution operational handoff launch.
- Drive operational cadence and tooling for market approval legal/CLM throughput market acceptance and partner PSAs; remove cross-functional bottlenecks.
- Own partner commercial health and governance: contract amendments performance and board-level reporting.
- Grow and coach a team of analysts GIS specialists and ops coordinators; professionalize funnel and pipeline stage metrics.
What Success Looks Like
- 30 days: Rapid stakeholder relationships; own current pipeline; initiate audit of market scoring rubric and trackers.
- 90 days: Deliver 35 market evaluation packages; implement 1 improvement to pipeline visibility or market rubric.
- 12 months: Lead X approved partnered markets (or target KPI) improved pipeline conversion metrics and measurable reduction in legal/CLM cycle time.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Business Management Economics Finance or related field and 7 years of related work experience OR a combination of education and experience deemed equivalent. MBA or Masters degree in a relevant discipline preferred.
- 7 years of experience in business development market development strategic planning or commercial operations with at least 3 years in a people leadership role
- Direct experience in telecommunications broadband / fiber / ISP or adjacent infrastructure industries strongly preferred
- Demonstrated track record of managing partner relationships end-to-end: origination evaluation negotiation and ongoing commercial management
- Deep understanding of commercial contracts including contract process terms and document management (CLM)
- Experience working with financial models business case development and investment evaluation frameworks (NPV IRR CLV penetration modeling)
- Familiarity with GIS tools data-driven market evaluation and/or ML-informed decision-making processes is a strong differentiator
- Experience managing cross-functional workflows involving Legal Finance Data Science and external partners
- Prior exposure to JV structures wholesale agreements or complex multi-party commercial arrangements is highly valued
- At least 18 years of age and legally authorized to work in the United States
Some travel required.
Total Target Cash Earnings Opportunity: $170040 - $306720National Base Pay Range: $141700 - $255600The Total Target Cash Earnings Opportunity represents the expected total cash compensation for this role at target performance combining base salary and annual incentive opportunity. Actual earnings may be higher or lower depending on individual performance and overall company results.
The base pay range reflects the compensation component of this opportunity. The candidates actual pay will be based on various factors such as work location qualifications and experience so the actual starting pay will vary within this range. To find the pay range for this role based on hiring location T-Mobile employees in regular non-temporary roles are eligible for an annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus based on their role. Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on individual and/or company performance and which is set at a percentage of the employees eligible earnings in the prior year. Certain positions in Customer Care are eligible for monthly bonuses based on individual and/or team performance. The incentive component included in the Total Target Cash Earnings Opportunity reflects target performance. Actual earnings included in the Total Target Cash Earnings Opportunity reflect target performance; actual payouts may vary.At T-Mobile our benefits exemplify the spirit of One Team Together! A big part of how we care for one another is working to ensure our benefits evolve to meet the needs of our team members. Full and part-time employees have access to the same benefits when eligible. We cover all of the bases offering medical dental and vision insurance a flexible spending account 401(k) employee stock grants employee stock purchase plan paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays - which total about 4 weeks for new full-time employees and about 2.5 weeks for new part-time employees annually - paid parental and family leave family building benefits back-up care enhanced family support childcare subsidy tuition assistance college coaching short- and long-term disability voluntary AD&D coverage voluntary accident coverage voluntary life insurance voluntary disability insurance and voluntary long-term care insurance. We dont stop there - eligible employees can also receive mobile service & home internet discounts pet insurance and access to commuter and transit programs! To learn about T-Mobiles amazing benefits check out.Never stop growing!
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