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Our client, Mitel Networks (Nasdaq: MITL) (TSX:MNW) is a global market leader in enterprise and mobile communications powering more than 2 billion business connections and 2 billion mobile subscribers every day.

Mitel helps businesses and mobile carriers connect, collaborate and provide innovative services to their customers. Their innovation and communications experts serve more than 60 million business users in more than 100 countries, and 130 mobile service providers including 15 of the top 20 mobile carriers in the world. 

Mitel is the only company able to provide a bridge between enterprise and mobile customers. 

This is a truly unique opportunity to consolidate multiple operations, delivery and support functions into a single global organization in support of the accelerated growth of a $150M global cloud business

Summary:

The Vice President Global Cloud Operations (VPGCO) is responsible for consolidating, managing and driving the continuous evolution and improvement of Mitel Networks' global cloud infrastructure and associated operational procedures. The VPGCO will lead the global operations, infrastructure, customer care and service delivery functions for the global cloud service portfolio and will identify requirements, manage priorities, provide status, manage budgets, and ultimately ensure that service delivery is on time, on budget, and of maximum quality.

This position reports to the EVP and GM for Mitel Cloud Services.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage the vision, design and deployment of cloud infrastructure, including compute, storage, and network systems for cloud hosting
• Provide cloud hosting service management strategy, process, and procedures across the organization
• Lead a consistent, measurable process to operationalize and scale cloud based strategic initiatives and execution 
• Manage Capex, and Opex costs; appropriate value for investments
• Responsible for running a 24x7x365 Cloud Infrastructure and Operations organization with staff located in multiple Global locations. 
• Develop and mentor a high performing team of global professionals
• Provide strong leadership, guidance, and direction related to cloud hosting service delivery
• Work closely with Engineering, Data Center Operations and technology vendors to ensure SLAs are met and quality meets or exceed expectations
• Manage adherence to security and compliance safeguards, policies and procedures
• Managing change, assets, and documentation for top quality support
• Establishes key KPI, SLA's, metrics and measurements demonstrating area health. Communicates through operational reviews. Measures and tracks against industry benchmarks and standards.
• Identifies and implements critical metrics necessary to manage and monitor the performance of overall operations including: capacity, availability, budget, and inventory.
• Manages and leads vendor relationship to maintain day to day operations and strategic goals for Data Center Operations SLA's and deliverables. Works with current vendor stakeholders and partners to develop and deliver strategic plans. Oversees all data center vendor contracts, streamlining services required and optimizing overall costs.
• Develops opportunities for cross-team effectiveness and remove organizational barriers for strong teamwork, collaboration, and excellent service delivery.
• Manages budgeting and forecasting, planning, deployment, incident and problem management, change management.

This position can be based in Dallas, Chicago or Phoenix.