Senior Strategic Analyst - Network Strategy & Investment

Job Description

Job Description

Position Title: Senior Strategic Analyst – Network Strategy & Investment

Base Salary: $110,400 to $162,000 annually DOE

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401k, flexible spending account, paid sick leave and paid time off, parental leave, quarterly performance bonus, training, career growth and education reimbursement programs.

Ziply Fiber is a local internet service provider dedicated to elevating the connected lives of the communities we serve. We offer the fastest home internet in the nation, a refreshingly great customer experience, and affordable plans that put customers in charge. 

As our state-of-the-art fiber network expands, so does our need for team members who can help us grow and realize our goals.  

Our Company Values:  

• Genuinely Caring:  We treat customers and colleagues like neighbors, with empathy and full attention. 
  

• Empowering You:  We help customers choose what is best for them, and we support employees in implementing new ideas and solutions. 
  

• Innovation and Improvement:  We constantly seek ways to improve how we serve customers and each other.  
  

• Earning Your Trust:  We build trust through clear, honest, human communication. 
  

Job Summary

The Senior Strategic Analyst – Network Strategy & Investment helps drive Ziply Fiber's most critical network investment decisions, independently structuring business problems, building financial and analytical models, and synthesizing large datasets into clear, actionable recommendations for senior leadership.

The role spans network expansion, capital allocation, deployment economics, competitive intelligence, value engineering, and long-range network planning. The ideal candidate combines strong financial and strategic problem-solving skills with the technical aptitude to work directly with large-scale network and geospatial data.

This is a high-ownership role for someone who can take a strategic question from initial hypothesis through analysis to executive recommendation with limited direction, drawing on strong prior business judgment, and analytical rigor to proactively drive business improvement.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

The Essential Duties and Responsibilities listed below are a range of duties performed by the employee and not intended to reflect all duties performed.

Network Strategy & Investment Analysis

·        Independently structure and evaluate strategic questions related to network investment, expansion, capital allocation, and deployment strategy.

·        Build financial models evaluating NPV, IRR, payback, capital efficiency, cost per passing, and other investment-return metrics.

·        Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses to evaluate alternative deployment strategies, construction methods, timing assumptions, costs, demand, and risk.

·        Develop business cases and investment recommendations for new markets, network expansions, and changes to existing deployment plans.

·        Evaluate trade-offs between capital requirements, deployment timing, operational considerations, competitive dynamics, and long-term financial returns.

·        Translate complex analytical findings into clear recommendations and decision frameworks for senior leadership.

·        Support annual and long-range capital planning and identifying opportunities to improve returns across the network investment portfolio

Network Expansion & Capital Planning

·        Identify, prioritize, and evaluate network expansion opportunities using financial, demand, competitive, operational, and geospatial data.

·        Develop analytical frameworks to rank markets and build areas based on investment return, strategic value, deployment feasibility, capital efficiency, and risk.

·        Evaluate changes to build plans and quantify their impact on capital requirements, timing, passings, and expected financial returns.

·        Analyze deployment economics across markets, construction methods, vendors, and network configurations.

·        Track approved investments against original assumptions and identify drivers of cost, schedule, or return variance.

·        Identify opportunities to improve build sequencing and capital deployment based on changing market conditions and new information.

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