Essential Skills / Experience

• Significant experience managing strategic partnerships, suppliers or vendors in a commercial, service management or procurement environment.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience of contract management, supplier performance management and value realisation.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility across senior internal and external audiences.
• Proven ability to identify opportunities for growth, efficiency, cost optimisation or service improvement and drive them through to delivery.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Experience managing software, technology or digital service vendors.
• Knowledge of software licensing, licence optimisation and vendor governance.
• Experience working with large-scale or strategically important supplier portfolios.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret performance data and generate actionable insights.
• Experience balancing commercial, operational, legal, regulatory and risk considerations when managing suppliers.
• Understanding of digital transformation programmes and the role strategic partnerships play in enabling business change.
• Experience working within a large, complex organisation with multiple stakeholder groups.
• Familiarity with AI, emerging technologies and their potential application within partnership management

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life.

You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalized maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.

About BT Group

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.