Head of Networks

Responsibilities

• What You'll Love About This Role
• Think Big: Shape the direction of Global's network capability and play a key role in enabling resilient, future-ready technology across the business.
• Own It: Take accountability for a critical technology domain that underpins business continuity, operational performance and future transformation.
• Keep it Simple: Bring clarity, structure and prioritisation to a technically complex environment, helping specialists focus on the highest-value work.
• Better Together: Partner with highly capable engineers, technical leads and stakeholders across the organisation to solve important problems and deliver dependable outcomes.
• What Success Looks
• In your first few months, you'll have:
• Built a strong understanding of Global's network estate, service model, risks, dependencies and key priorities
• Established credibility with the networks team by providing clear leadership, sound judgement and effective support
• Brought clarity to priorities, ownership, ways of working and delivery expectations across the team
• Strengthened operational oversight across incidents, changes, resilience, documentation and service performance for critical services
• Built strong working relationships with internal stakeholders, strategic suppliers and service partners
• Identified opportunities to improve reliability, scalability, governance and team effectiveness across the network function

Requirements

• Network Leadership Experience: Significant experience in network infrastructure roles, including leading or managing high-performing technical teams in complex enterprise environments
• Strong Networking Knowledge: Good understanding of core IP networking concepts and technologies, including routing and switching, WAN/LAN, firewalls, VPNs, wireless networking, resilience and performance management
• Technical Credibility: Able to engage confidently with specialists on topics such as OSPF, BGP, peering, routing policy, network segmentation, security controls and carrier connectivity, without needing to be the deepest technical expert in the team
• People Leadership: Proven ability to lead, coach and develop technically strong individuals, creating clarity, accountability and an inclusive, supportive culture
• Critical Service Awareness: Experience working in environments where network services underpin live, high-availability or business-critical operations, with a strong appreciation for resilience, continuity, controlled change and effective incident management
• Operational Management: Experience overseeing service performance, incident management, change control, capacity planning, disaster recovery, supp

Additional Information

Accepting applications until: 31 July 2026 Job Description Job title: Head of Networks Your new role: Head of Networks A leadership role responsible for the strategy, performance and continual improvement of Global's IP network estate. Leading a small team of highly skilled specialists, this role ensures the networks supporting Global's live and always-on services are resilient, secure, scalable and aligned to business needs, while creating the environment, clarity and direction for the team to do their best work. Global operates a geographically distributed, high-availability network with characteristics similar to a service provider, supporting live broadcast and a nationwide outdoor estate. As a Head of Networks at Global, you will:

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