Acquisition Delivery Manager - GGS 12

Mobile Broadband Network Limited; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mobile Broadband Network Limited is seeking an Acquisition Delivery Manager to oversee acquisition activity across a portfolio of infrastructure sites, ensuring on-time delivery, cost control, and quality. The role involves coordinating with suppliers, legal partners, surveyors, and internal teams to deliver site solutions while maintaining data accuracy and programme integrity.

The role emphasises governance, cross-functional dependencies, and proactive risk management, with hybrid working

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex programmes or projects across multiple stakeholders and suppliers.
• Proven ability to deliver within structured governance and control frameworks.
• Strong understanding of acquisition, planning, legal processes, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Knowledge of the end-to-end delivery lifecycle (Acquisition, Design, Transmission, Deployment, Operations).
• Experience managing outsourced suppliers and driving delivery performance.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, organisational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining delivery quality and timescales.

Responsibilities

• Manage acquisition activities across a portfolio of infrastructure sites to achieve agreed delivery targets.
• Ensure suppliers and internal stakeholders comply with acquisition processes, legal requirements, standards, and SLAs.
• Investigate underperformance, drive recovery plans, and escalates risks where required.
• Coordinate acquisition suppliers, legal partners, surveyors, and internal SMEs to deliver site solutions efficiently.
• Manage project and site-specific risks, issues, and dependencies, driving timely resolution.
• Control operational expenditure and ensure the efficient use of technical support services.
• Assess and report on site risks that may impact replacement coverage delivery.
• Ensure projects are mobilised promptly and acquisition activities progress without delay.
• Maintain high standards of data accuracy and integrity across sites and programmes.
• Support continuous improvement of acquisition processes, reporting, and delivery practices.
• Promote collaboration across suppliers, shareholders, and internal teams to achieve successful outcomes.

Skills

Programme management

Stakeholder engagement

Governance & controls

End-to-end delivery

Supplier management

Prioritisation

Job description

Protect coverage. Deliver solutions. Enable continued network performance.

The Acquisition Delivery Manager plays a key role within MBNL’s Infrastructure & Estates directorate, responsible for managing sites at risk and delivering acquisition solutions that maintain network coverage and service continuity. Working closely with internal stakeholders, surveyors, legal teams, and third?party suppliers, the role ensures acquisition activities are delivered to time, cost, and quality while supporting shareholder and business objectives.

Why this role matters;

Maintaining network coverage and customer experience depends on acquiring and retaining the right sites at the right time. This role ensures acquisition activities are effectively managed, risks are mitigated, and replacement coverage solutions are delivered efficiently through strong stakeholder engagement and supplier management. This is a hybrid role with a minimum of 2 days per week in our Central Reading office.

What you’ll be here to do;

• Manage acquisition activities across a portfolio of infrastructure sites to achieve agreed delivery targets
• Ensure suppliers and internal stakeholders comply with acquisition processes, legal requirements, standards, and SLAs
• Investigate underperformance, drive recovery plans, and escalates risks where required
• Coordinate acquisition suppliers, legal partners, surveyors, and internal SMEs to deliver site solutions efficiently
• Manage project and site-specific risks, issues, and dependencies, driving timely resolution
• Control operational expenditure and ensure the efficient use of technical support services
• Assess and report on site risks that may impact replacement coverage delivery
• Ensure projects are mobilised promptly and acquisition activities progress without delay
• Maintain high standards of data accuracy and integrity across sites and programmes
• Support continuous improvement of acquisition processes, reporting, and delivery practices
• Promote collaboration across suppliers, shareholders, and internal teams to achieve successful outcomes

Who we’re looking for;

• Experience delivering complex programmes or projects across multiple stakeholders and suppliers
• Proven ability to deliver within structured governance and control frameworks
• Strong understanding of acquisition, planning, legal processes, and cross-functional dependencies
• Knowledge of the end?to?end delivery lifecycle, including Acquisition, Design, Transmission, Deployment, and Operations
• Experience managing outsourced suppliers and driving delivery performance
• Strong stakeholder engagement, organisational, and problem?solving skills
• Ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining delivery quality and timescales

If you also have the following, we’d especially like to hear from you;

• Experience working within telecommunications infrastructure environments
• Experience managing site?at?risk or replacement coverage programmes
• Understanding of network deployment and infrastructure lifecycle management
• Experience within a joint venture or multi?stakeholder environment