Senior Fibre Strategy & Planning Specialist

FULL TIME SALARIED Virtual, AB, CA

7 days ago Requisition

Xplore Inc. is Canada’s fibre, 5G and satellite broadband company for rural living. Xplore is committed to the relentless pursuit of an improved broadband experience for all Canadians. Xplore is building a world-class fibre optic and 5G wireless network to enable innovative broadband services for better every day rural living, for today and future generations.

The Senior Fibre Strategy & Planning Specialist is responsible for supporting and advancing the company's strategic vision for fibre growth and network expansion across Canada. As a senior member of the Fibre Planning team, this role provides strategic and technical leadership in network investment planning, business case development, expansion prioritization, and deployment strategy, helping shape long term growth objectives, identify new growth opportunities, and support executive investment and capital allocation decisions.

Working with a high degree of autonomy, the successful candidate translates strategy into optimized and constructable FTTP network plans while balancing customer demand, constructability, scalability, and financial objectives. The role serves as a senior technical resource within a collaborative planning team, influencing decisions through expertise, analysis, and strategic insight rather than direct people leadership. Over time, the individual is expected to become a recognized subject matter expert in fibre strategy, geospatial planning, and investment analysis, establishing planning standards, mentoring peers, and helping drive planning excellence across the organization.

The role is expected to proactively identify opportunities that improve network reach, customer growth, capital efficiency, and long term shareholder value through a combination of planning expertise, geospatial intelligence, data analytics, automation, and strategic thinking.

• Lead development of fibre expansion strategies and long term network roadmaps.
• Evaluate greenfield and brownfield expansion opportunities.
• Assess market opportunities and recommend investment priorities.
• Provide strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
• Continuously identify and evaluate new FTTH, MDU, SFU, partnership, acquisition, and broadband expansion opportunities.
• Develop and maintain a long term opportunity pipeline supporting company growth objectives.
• Assess competitor network activity, demographic trends, housing developments, municipal growth plans, and market intelligence to identify future investment opportunities.
• Translate complex market, financial, engineering, and operational data into strategic recommendations for senior leadership.

• Develop and maintain a national opportunity funnel for FTTH, MDU, SFU, commercial, partnership, and acquisition based fibre expansion opportunities.
• Monitor land development activity, municipal growth plans, broadband funding opportunities, and competitive deployments.
• Identify underserved markets and recommend expansion priorities based on financial, operational, and strategic considerations.
• Quantify revenue growth opportunities, cost reduction opportunities, and capital efficiency improvements resulting from proposed initiatives.
• Develop repeatable methodologies and analytical models that enable proactive identification of future growth opportunities.

• Develop long range fibre expansion plans, market funnels, and business case inputs across both GIA and partnership based opportunities.
• Ensure business case assumptions reflect full cost economics, regional constructability realities, competitive dynamics, and execution constraints.
• Own the identification, qualification, and prioritization of future fibre growth opportunities.
• Develop scenario based planning and investment models assessing alternative deployment strategies, capital requirements, penetration assumptions, and competitive impacts.
• Develop business cases that balance customer growth, constructability, risk, and long term return on investment.
• Provide executive ready planning and investment…