Opportunity Description: BVKN currently has immediate opportunities for an experienced Telecom Utility Consultant. This consulting opportunity required experience with dark fiber leasing and last-mile provider concepts. Experience consulting with a utility or a utility-like organization that leases dark fiber and last-mile internet connectivity to end-user (customers) is preferred.
Specific Deliverables:
- Compare operational expenses to industry standards and make recommendations for improvements (i.e. “best practices”).
- Project future data pricing, speeds, and margins and how these changes will affect clients.
- Analyze pricing trends, mark trends, and programming cost trends and how these influence clients.
- Analyze the impact of re-transmission agreements and how it will impact cable industry in the future.
Subject Matter Capability:
- Analyze five-year financial forecast and supporting financial model and make recommendations to enhance accuracy.
- Provide market analysis including the future impact of increased competition and new technology (e.g. AT&T Fiber, 5G).
- Develop a “go-to-market” strategy to help combat the competition, customer trends, and technology of the future.
- Analyze the impact of re-transmission agreements and how it will impact cable industry in the future.
- Provide projections and assumptions for cable, internet and phone subscriber trends for the next five years.
- Provide a list of options if the long-term financial forecast is not sustainable.
- Identify new products and features which could be sold on the fiber network.
Consulting Capability:
- Secures commitment and participation from the client’s senior management by leveraging relationships
- Develops or contributes to the engagement business case. Outlines specific performance measures, targets, and goals.
- Delivers client solutions aligned with defined value proposition across multiple areas of a client’s businesses
- Searches for new consulting opportunities with existing or new clients
- Secures receivables from clients during and after completion of engagements
Knowledge Capability:
- Utilizes specialized knowledge to produce complex work products and solutions across all phases of an engagement
- Defines and applies appropriate methods or recognized equivalent to identified client needs
- Anticipates and resolves technical problems with minimal technical assistance from others
- Leverages knowledge and experience to assess alternative approaches to solving problems
- Develops, presents, and defends conclusions, recommendations, and implementation plans
- Leads quality reviews of smaller assigned engagements or supports reviews of larger engagements
- Identifies technical issues impacting an engagement and implements solutions
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or related experience
- Five years of utility or similar work experience in Last Mile Fiber
- Applicants for this position must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Black & Veatch Management Consulting (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).
- All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment on-boarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree
- Depth and breadth of knowledge in Utility Operations
- Knowledge of a complete engagement lifecycle.
- Advanced technical or industry knowledge.
- Human relations skills including collaboration and team functions.
- Ability to understand team functions and lead operation in an engagement environment.
- Advanced PC literacy.