Telecom reveals management restructure

Telecom will undertake the next two years' restructuring under its "Vision 2013" with no human resources representation at the company's senior management top table.

Telecom chief executive Paul Reynolds announced the outcome of senior management changes signalled in a restructure announced earlier this week, which will slim down the Telecom senior management team from 10 people to eight.

However, the new structure still sees two senior roles reporting directly to Reynolds without being on the top team: head of Wholesale, Nick Clarke, and the newly named head of HR at the nation's largest telecommunications company, Jan O'Neill, who is currently general manager of human resources for Telecom's retail operations.

After two years with the company, the group general manager of HR, Wayne Peat, is leaving the company.

The big winner in the changes announced today is Rod Snodgrass, previously group strategy director, who will move into the newly-created Chief Product Officer role, which will oversee product and pricing activity across the company as it prepares either for the new environment that the government's ultra-fast broadband project will create.

Telecom is offering to structurally separate into two companies if it is chosen as a partner in the $1.35 billion subsidy scheme to roll out UFB to all urban areas by 2018, but is pursuing internal changes irrespective of the outcome as it chases cost reductions and improved commercial performance.

Two corporate services director roles will be filled by Tristan Gilbertson, group general counsel and Tina Symmans, director of corporate relations, who will both retain their current responsibilities.

Reynolds thanked Peat for the "huge impact he has made at Telecom since joining in 2009," particularly his "outstanding" response to the Christchurch earthquake.

Other members of the senior team are unchanged, with Nick Olson as chief financial officer, Mark Ratcliffe as chief executive at the infrastructure arm, Chorus, Alan Gourdie and Chris Quin heading retail and Gen-I respectively, and David Havercroft as group chief technology officer.