Senior leaders from Openreach will be visiting Warwick to introduce their organisation and share progress and aspiration around their full fibre ambition for the UK. They’ll talk about careers and recruitment, as one of the UK’s largest employers.
They will invite students to come and join their remarkable team on the journey to reach 25 million homes with full fibre broadband by 2026.
What is it for you?
- This session will help to improve students' understanding about Openreach as the UK’s largest broadband infrastructure provider to homes and businesses, alongside the wide range of career opportunities they offer.
- Openreach are proud of the progress they’re making around Diversity and Inclusion, and would like to share some of the successes as they evolve their business.
Agenda of the session
1:00pm - 2:30pm Welcome and Presentations
2:30pm - 3:00pm Break
3:00pm - 4:00pm Show and Tell - a hands on activity to create a fibre connection alongside the Openreach engineers
Who are the speakers?
- Raja Khalid, Regional Director, Service Delivery, East Anglia
- Jill Newman, Senior HR Manager UK Service Delivery
- Rob Willetts, Internal Communications Specialist - UK Operations
- Chris Jones, Senior External Communications Manager, Central England
- Sean Grossett, Patch Manager, Full Fibre Delivery, North Downs
- Richard Kirchin, Senior Area Manager Hemel
Raja Khalid is a strategic business leader and has vast experience in managing global supply chains and complex operations for large organisations. With over 18 years of end-to-end supply chain and operational experience in automotive (Toyota)/white goods manufacturing (Beko), logistics (Unipart), e-commerce/Retail (Amazon) and telecommunications industry (Openreach) recently, he has also delivered excellent results in sales and commercial functions. Raja is passionate about developing world class teams and delivering exceptional customer service standards while achieving the demanding targets.
Raja is a Warwick Alumnus (MSc eBusiness Management - 2003) and currently working as a Regional Director, UK Operations for Openreach Limited since Feb, 2021.