Skills And Experience

• Portfolio, Programme and Project Management, Prince2 or APM or SAFE
• Ability to quickly comprehend complex situations / issues – “cut through complexity”.
• Ability to think strategically and take ideas from concept through to implementation.
• Personal resilience to continue to deliver in challenging stakeholder environment
• Bias for action – owning a problem and not giving up until resolved, to not impact delivery
• Team leadership and a highly collaborative style
• Influencing skills at all levels, including SMT and BLT
• Confidence to challenge, advise and shape programme direction
• Ability to unblock issues to enable successful delivery
• Experience of both waterfall and agile methodology and delivery
• Experience of managing and leading senior stakeholders, ensuring on time and within budget delivery of complex programmes
• Ability to lead a matrix team to deliver the programme
• Negotiation, communication and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrate initiative.
• Ability to build a culture of continuous learning and development and mutual support.
• Ability to coach for great performance, including being able to articulate what fantastic performance looks like.

Experience you would be expected to have

• Experience as a Project and Programme Manager, delivering complex solutions
• Expected to have attained an advanced project management qualification – MSP, APM RPP etc.
• Experience of mobilising a large programme end to end
• Working with senior stakeholders, up to ELT level.
• Experience within a complex programme: Financial/budget management, stakeholder management, communication plans, managing escalations and risk.
• Knocking down internal barriers and cutting through complexity to deliver.

About Us

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.

While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies.

Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.