Essential Skills / Experience

• First class technical commercial lawyer with 5+ years post-qualification experience.
• Strong communication, drafting and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships, influence senior stakeholders and deliver strategically important initiatives across the business.
• Commercially minded and proactive, with the confidence to challenge constructively, provide sound recommendations, solve complex problems and continuously learn, improve processes and drive new approaches where no precedent exists.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Strong understanding of the technology and telecommunications sector, with knowledge of Networks' objectives, processes and the legal and regulatory environment in which BT operates.
• Collaborative team player who builds effective relationships across legal and business functions, contributing proactively to shared goals and supporting colleagues where needed.
• Self-motivated, resilient and adaptable, with the ability to manage competing priorities, work under pressure to demanding timescales and continuously learn, upskill and improve processes.

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:

• Company car scheme (or cash alternative)
• 15% on target annual bonus
• Private healthcare for you and your family
• 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
• Equalised 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.

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.