Senior Strategic Analyst – Network Strategy & Investment

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.

Value Engineering & Capital Efficiency

· Analyze engineering, construction, labor, material, and vendor cost
drivers to identify opportunities to improve capital efficiency.

· Develop and maintain cost benchmarks and unit-economic frameworks across
markets and deployment types.

· Evaluate alternative engineering and construction approaches and
quantify their impact on cost, schedule, risk, and financial returns.

· Partner with Engineering, Construction, Procurement, Operations, and
Finance to develop business cases for cost-reduction initiatives.

· Establish analytical frameworks to prioritize opportunities and track
realized savings against expected benefits.

· Perform root-cause analyses of cost and schedule variances and recommend
corrective actions.

Competitive & Market Intelligence

· Develop analytical views of competitor network presence, expansion
activity, market overlap, and potential implications for Ziply's investment
strategy.

· Combine internal and external datasets to identify emerging competitive
threats and investment opportunities.

· Assess competitive intensity at the market, neighborhood, and address
level where appropriate.

· Translate competitive intelligence into recommendations for market
prioritization, build sequencing, and capital allocation.

· Develop repeatable frameworks for incorporating competitive activity
into network investment decisions.

Other Duties

· Performs
other duties as required to support the business and evolving organization .

What Success Looks Like

· Give
leadership clear, fact-based visibility into where Ziply should invest, why,
expected financial returns, key risks, and available alternatives.

· Independently
structure analyses, determine required data, develop models, challenge
assumptions, and recommend a course of action.

· Build
repeatable analytical frameworks that improve the quality and speed of network
investment decisions.

· Develop
a deep understanding of Ziply's network economics and connect financial
outcomes with engineering and operational decisions.

· Proactively
identify opportunities and risks and initiate the analysis required to address
them.

· Become
a trusted partner to business leaders by combining analytical rigor with
practical business judgment.

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Required Qualifications:

· Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Engineering, Data
Science, Computer Science, Geography/GIS, or another quantitative or analytical
field.

· 3 - 7 years of experience in corporate strategy, strategic finance,
investment analysis, management consulting, telecommunications, infrastructure,
or another capital-intensive industry.

· Demonstrated experience independently structuring complex analytical
problems and developing recommendations from incomplete or imperfect
information.

· Strong financial modeling skills, including experience with investment
cases, NPV/IRR analysis, scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and/or
capital planning.

· Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and demonstrated ability to build
complex analytical models from the ground up.

· Experience working with large datasets and combining multiple data
sources to answer complex business questions.

· Ability to translate analytical findings into concise recommendations
for senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders.

· Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience
creating executive-level presentations.

· Demonstrated ability to identify the next analytical question without
being explicitly directed.

· Strong business judgment and ability to balance analytical rigor with
real-world operational constraints.

· Ability to independently manage multiple workstreams in a fast-moving
environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

· Experience in telecommunications, broadband, infrastructure, utilities,
transportation, energy, real estate development, or another capital-intensive
industry.

· Experience supporting network expansion, infrastructure investment,
market prioritization, capital planning, or value engineering.

· Strong SQL proficiency, including the ability to query and integrate
data across multiple sources.

· Experience with Python and analytical libraries such as pandas,
geopandas, or comparable tools.

· Experience with GIS platforms such as QGIS, ArcGIS, or equivalent
spatial-analysis tools.

· Experience developing financial models incorporating geospatial or
address-level data.

· Experience evaluating construction or infrastructure economics,
including cost per passing, cost per mile, cost per foot, productivity, vendor
economics, or similar unit-cost measures.

· Experience developing executive-level business cases, investment
recommendations, or strategic presentations.

· Experience building dashboards, automated analytical workflows, or
repeatable decision-support tools.

· MBA, master's degree, or other relevant advanced degree is a plus but
not required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

· Exceptional
analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to break problems into
structured analyses.

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