Our Vision: Continue to be the leading UK mobile infrastructure services company.

Our Mission: To be famous for excellence in delivery, embracing transformation with our people and our customers at its heart.

We are at an exciting time in our company’s development. We've come a long way since we were first formed in 2012. From the rollout of new technologies and managing complex legislation affecting the industry, we are leading the conversation on innovation and developing sharper solutions to serve our customers better. We collaborate as a team to meet the high standards expected of us and demand the best of ourselves through our values.

The Role

This is a 18 Month FTC to lead the management and delivery of the Genesis tender. The tender is the delivery of the largest contract in Cornerstone to deliver planned and reactive maintenance across circa 17,000 sites.

The role will be the primary point for leading the overall management of the tender and transition of Genesis and report on the status and delivery plan of the project

Own and lead Genesis's delivery plan and ensure the smooth tendering of the supplier and the transition of a new supplier or updated contract terms with an existing supplier.

Define and lead on recommendations, resolve complex contractual issues, and ensure the timely delivery of Genesis.

Ensure the transition of the contract is smoothly mobilised, and the mobilisation of the new contract and supplier delivery is supported by all required processes and information.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring that the Genesis delivery plan is written, appropriate in place and driven to a conclusion.
• Set and lead supplier demonstrations and reviews to ensure the quality and choice of supplier is correct.
• Ensure timely and accurate updating of the plan and promotion.
• Act as a trusted interface with IT, H&S, Governance, Legal, and Finance teams to support seamless commercial/contract management.
• Provide regular reporting as required by the business and key customers.
• Ensure all requirements are understood by the suppliers.
• Support in answering supplier questions
• Lead on the strategy and delivery elements of the Cornerstone genesis tender and transition. Ensure all areas of the business that own deliverables, e.g. information/documentation, are held to account and delivered against set strict deadlines.
• Lead on and challenge any issues around upgrades, lead in solutions along with delivery of the tooling and any upgrades for all facets of site access.
• Drive contract writing, implementation, and governance by focusing on key areas and ensuring compliance and completeness of the contract
• Lead on what data is shared for the benefit of continued improvement.
• Work with all parties to collectively define efficiency, savings, and improvement in services.

Experience

• Experience in leadings large tender and transition process
• 10 years+ of management in the transformation and transitioning of contracts and workforces
• Experience tenders, transition and large contracted services
• Experienced in managing multiple stakeholders
• Able to manage diverse teams and different workstreams effectively
• Requires the ability to manage multiple activities
• Experience in managing complex projects

What we offer

• Competitive salary and an excellent bonus structure
• 30 days holiday
• Competitive pension scheme
• Hybrid working
• Life insurance
• Cycle to Work
• Retail Discount
• Competitive refer a friend scheme
• Private Healthcare Insurance

Cornerstone was established in 2012 as a joint venture between Vodafone and Telefonica to consolidate their mobile network infrastructure into a single grid, thereby enabling ongoing efficiencies in network design, build and operations. We are now the leading UK mobile infrastructure services provider with over 15,000 sites owned and operated in the UK, with a further 5000 third party sites managed on behalf of our two main customers. Cornerstone generates in excess of £380m of revenue and £140m of EBITDA annually and has an estimated market cap of in excess of £3bn. Vantage Towers and VMO2 are the principal Shareholders.

If this role is of interest to you and you would like to find out more, please do apply with an up to date version of your CV.