About the Role

Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Global Network Engineering Team (NetTeam) designs, manages, and supports global IP networks that underpin our world-class gaming and corporate services, including:

• PlayStation Plus Game Streaming (Cloud Gaming subscription service)
• SIE Backbone Services (SBS) including SIE Global Corporate Network (SGCN) inter-office, Data Center, VPN (Layer 2/3), Cloud (AWS DX, others), and Internet connectivity for SIE offices worldwide
• Static content delivery services for game downloads and PlayStation Network (PSN) updates.  

With the NetTeam’s ongoing growth, we are looking for a highly experienced Principal Network Planner to become part of NetTeam. This presents an outstanding opportunity to direct and manage global planning and sourcing activities, impact network strategies, and guarantee the best possible player experience and corporate network performance.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with one of the most respected gaming brands in the world. You’ll contribute to the backbone that powers PlayStation’s global gaming experiences, driving innovation and delivering outstanding network performance for millions of players worldwide!

Primary Purpose

The Principal Network Planner will act as NetTeam’s lead for sourcing, negotiating and contracting network capacity for our global IP networks in the key areas of:

• Edge connectivity (peering, IP transit, IXs)
• Telecommunication circuits (dark fiber, wavelengths)
• Colocation facilities
• Content delivery networks

Key Responsibilities

Vendor Management & Strategy

• User your extensive global network to engage executive leaders within our vendor community to actively manage relationships, drive deliverables, and lead negotiations on commercial terms and service agreements
• Influence network connectivity strategies and build future sourcing initiatives
• Represent NetTeam at industry forums and maintain strong market knowledge
• Manage vendor commercial agreements and performance

Technical Leadership & Development

• Provide expert mentorship on global network builds, IP/VPN, BGP, and data planning.
• Represent NetTeam in technical discussions with collaborators and cross-functional teams
• Drive decisions to improve reliability, scalability, and performance
• Innovate processes, metrics, and workflows to optimize global network initiatives
• Deliver low-latency, highly reliable services to our customers

Capacity Planning & Continuous Improvement

• Assess network capacity trends, forecast future needs, and model growth or failure scenarios
• Develop regional and service-specific roadmaps aligned with business requirements
• Design and then secure services to establish points of presence (PoPs) in new countries or expand services in established regions
• Continuously optimise cost, service levels, and operational efficiency

Key Relationships

• Internal: Network Engineering, Data Center Sourcing, SIE Business Intelligence, global SIE WAN/LAN/IT groups
• External: International vendors, hyperscalers, telecom providers, industry peers

Minimum Requirements

Education & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or Engineering, or equivalent experience

Experience & Skills

• 25+ years in hyperscaler, telecom, cloud, or internet exchange environments
• Proven track record in network engineering, architecture, or strategic sourcing
• Experience managing multiple international vendors and high-spend portfolios (>$80M/year)

Proficiencies

• Expert knowledge of network engineering principles, scalability, performance, and cost management
• Experience with forecasting, demand planning, and participation in global network standards
• Strong problem-solving skills in complex and ambiguous environments
• Personal drive, resilience, creativity, collaboration, integrity, and excellence
• Outstanding communication skills, able to influence teams and collaborators at all levels
• Mentorship experience for junior and senior network planners and engineers
• Ability to lead across multiple organizational layers

Other Requirements

• Willingness to travel internationally
• Flexibility to work outside standard hours to coordinate with global suppliers

Performance Group Director 

About WPP and Wavemaker: WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com.WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values: o Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity. o Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust. o Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise. A Leading WPP Media Brand, Wavemaker positively provokes growth for clients by reshaping consumer decision-making and experiences through media, content, and technology. Our name is both our mission and our method. We do our best work for brave brands and people who relish being challenged to go further and faster, together.

The Role

The Performance (Implementation & Activation) Group Director is a critical role, ensuring we are setting our clients up for success now and in the future. You lead a large team, who specialise in Implementation Planning & Activation. You provide thought leadership and drive key senior client and publisher engagement, producing best-in-class solutions that fuel growth for our people, our clients and our organisation. As a leader, you will be expected to set up an environment where people have clarity on their performance & career paths and are empowered and encouraged to reach their full potential.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Be a critical senior consultant for your client, spanning Media Negotiations, Implementation Planning and Activation.

• Provide innovative strategic insights by acting as an expert on the client's business, industry and competitors.

• Brings innovation and creativity to the table, leveraging insights from across the market.

• Ensure all client KPI's and contractual commitments spanning Media Negotiation, Implementation Planning and Activation are delivered consistently.

• Motivate and empower team to achieve individual, team and organisational goals.

• Foster agency-wide knowledge sharing, and continuous learning around point of views, trends, and relevant skills to continue nurturing a high-performing agency.

• Build the agency's reputation by contributing to entries for awards and competitions and by contributing to industry thought leadership.

• Actively contribute to new business development and pitching when required.

What Makes You Great:

• You feel empowered to bring your authentic self to work, and contribute to great teamwork, knowing your individual ideas and thoughts will be welcome.

• Extensive experience leading a large diverse team, with extensive media investment and client service experience.

• Strong, up to date, media landscape knowledge.

• Inspiring communicator, with exceptional presentation skills.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the patience to examine detail and create solutions.

• Collaborative and astute - able to build trust and respect within a network.

• First class negotiation skills.

• Results Driven.

Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria. At WPP Media, we strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can positively impact our team with your experience!

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About the Position

This role reports to the Head of Solutions. The main responsibility is to lead, manage, and operate the Pre-sales activities for Energy Exemplar's in the ASEAN region.

The Solutions Lead is responsible for developing and implementing strategies that aim to drive business growth and innovation in the region. To achieve this, they work closely with both internal and external stakeholders to plan and implement processes supporting service delivery and product innovation.

Primary Responsibilities

The following list is provided to set an expectation of the ‘core’ responsibilities of the role, but is not intended to be an exhaustive list that covers all tasks that may be required on a day-to-day basis. As a rapidly growing business, it should be expected that the role and associated tasks are likely to evolve over time and that there will be situations where tasks not listed below will need to be undertaken to support region and business growth initiatives.

• Develop and execute ASEAN GTM strategy and account plan for all existing and new accounts, execution including marketing support activities, pre-sales demos, professional service delivery. It is expected that the plan should support the ASEAN Sales team in the coordination and allocation of resources to achieve business objectives

• Lead a high-performance Solutions team in ASEAN, comprising Energy and Data Analysts.
• Build an environment that supports true innovation, thought leadership and best practice sharing.
• Provide leadership and coaching to the Solutions team based on knowledge of industry and vertical market trends, regional business economics and strategic issues.
• Engage with high-level customer and partner decision makers to understand customer business issues and bring the right resources to develop, propose and implement sound technical solutions.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders from across the business to support the end-to-end process from sales through to delivery, ensuring robust processes and procedures are in place for seamless delivery of Energy Exemplar’s services.
• Maintain strong relationships with key customers to facilitate the ongoing flow of information concerning current and new solution needs, product development initiatives and market conditions that impact solution and product development.

Candidate Requirements & Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with Energy Modeling and Power Market Analysis
• 2+ years of team and people management experience
• Minimum of 3+ years’ experience working in Utility, TSO with PLEXOS or similar simulation software tool
• Demonstrated experience in building fundamental energy models including Electricity Markets, Gas Systems, Renewable Energy, and emerging technologies like Hydrogen and Ammonia
• Strong delivery record on projects in the areas of net-zero, decarbonization and solutions for new energy technologies in APAC context
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate in multiple languages is beneficial
• High level of emotional intelligence
• Ability to communicate complex subject matter in an easy-to-understand manner
• Strong commercial awareness
• Top-down approach to problem solving with ability to see the big picture
• Strong interpersonal presence and skills with demonstrated ability to build rapport
• Strong listening and presentation skills
• Ability to multi-task, prioritise and manage time effectively
• Self-driven, results-orientated with a position outlook and focus on quality
• Sense of urgency for individual, team and region goal achievement