Wayleave Officer

**Job Title: Wayleaves Officer**
**Reporting to: Head of Build**
**Salary: £30,000**

Embark on this exciting journey with MS3 Networks as a Wayleave Officer, where your skills and enthusiasm will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of telecommunications. Join us, and let's create connectivity solutions that make a lasting impact

**Job Purpose**:
As our Wayleave Officer, you will be negotiating wayleave agreements with land and property owners, to allow us to build our network within agreed timescales. You will mostly be liaising with and reassuring potential customers (predominantly face to face), but you will also be negotiating with property management companies, public bodies and legal partners for both residential and commercial premises, securing the legal agreements needed. You will act as a “champion” for MS3 in those discussions, selling the benefits of the MS3 Network and associated services, ensuring that take up is maximised in any planned network build.

**Role & Responsibilities**
- Negotiating wayleave agreements, easements and access agreements with landowners, property management companies and other third parties
- Visiting and negotiating wayleave agreements and access agreements with residential and commercial property owners, to allow us to maximise network build and customer connections in all areas we have a presence
- Forge strong relations with internal and external stakeholders & third parties including Local Authorities
- Provide regular updates to key stakeholders (including our board and investors) on progress to allow timely and effective network build and customer connections
- Report on progress against key delivery targets
- Where needed, support survey and planning visits to enable agreements to be secured
- Be responsible for the continuous improvement of our Wayleave management processes, tools and repositories

**Essential Skills and Experience**
- A tenacious self-starter with a hunger to “close the deal”
- An excellent negotiator
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong analytical and organisational skills
- Effective stakeholder management
- Ideally worked in the FTTP / Telecommunications industry with a proven knowledge of the wayleave challenges faced in building network and connecting customers
- Calm and collected when under pressure with excellent organisational skills

**Essential Qualifications**
- Must have at least 2 years’ experience in a similar role
- Previous experience in a telecommunications or tech company would be desirable
- 5 GCSEs grade A-C (or equivalent) including Maths and English

Please note this job description is indicative and not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Role duties, responsibilities and activities may reasonably change at any time with or without prior notice.

MS3 is a fibre network operator based in the Kingston-Upon-Hull area with plans to pass over 500,000 homes and businesses with full fibre. As a wholesale-only provider, MS3 will enable its existing and future ISP clients to provide up to 10Gb connections to end-customers, building on their existing fibre ring through Hull and to more than 30 other locations in the region.

MS3 Networks are a Disability Confident Company.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £30,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Ability to Commute:

- Hessle (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: WONEW