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SalaryAll locations: Ipswich, Bristol, Birmingham
Working Style: 3 days office, 2 days anywhere
Why this job matters
We are looking for a Delivery & Commercial Specialist to join BT's Mechanical & Electrical Platform.
You will help us deliver our investment & maintenance programs on the Mechanical & Electrical, Power & Cooling infrastructure. These underpin every one of BT’s services.
Your job will be to own the financials for the whole department, from identifying and forecasting funding requests, developing business cases, Defining financial outcomes for multiple projects and programs across this business unit.
You will be SME on reporting, understanding risks including commercial, operational, financial and delivery and looking after the health of our platform. You will carry out post investment and in-flight reviews. Day to day financial program hierarchy management and project code tracking, authorisation, and governance.
You will also take on some technical delivery of projects and need to be experienced in project design & implementation helping others build well defined processes on delivery and reporting.
You will become the subject matter expert on all financials, business cases and projects in delivery across a wide portfolio. You will never compromise on health & safety. We would love to benefit from your experience on continually improving processes in this area and governance of financial and delivery programs.
What you’ll be doing
- Own end to end financials for this business unit. Including funding pathways, forecasting, MTP. ‘In life’ delivery of Commitment, Work in progress, receipt, invoicing, and payment.
- Deliver multiple projects day to day. Identify-Forecast-Scope-Define-Accept-Prioritise-Deliver-Review-Close. Working with business stakeholders and external suppliers.
- Responsible for Strategic platform lifecycle management of our Electrical assets including AICC and age profile (EoSL and H&S risks).
- Develop delivery processes, reporting, tracking and review boards to underpin our investments.
- Manage business cases end to end including change management.
- Develop with SME’s, business investments that underpin M&E strategic growth and operational resilience. Underpin identified asset risk mitigation, working with the Design team, Operations & Field team to agree and formulate the annual OPEX and CAPEX Works Programme and budget, ensuring whole life cycle costs are identified.
- Identify and control risks both financial and operational.
- Help develop our wider ‘platform health’ processes and programs, initiatives, and projects for the next generation electrical estate.
- Support strategic projects and departmental change.
- Health and safety is our number one priority – you’ll have a good knowledge of our key health and safety guidelines, and you’ll be able to demonstrate a good understanding of why we take health and safety extremely seriously at all times.
- You’ll be responsible for helping to create an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed. Diversity makes sense for us, for our customers and for our future.
What you'll bring
Mandatory
- Stakeholder Management & negotiations.
- Project and program management on a national level including governance and reporting.
- Inspiring and Engaging Leadership: Inspiring and engaging leadership capability which fosters a culture of empowerment, inclusivity, ownership and pride in the estate and the work we do.
- Demonstrating broad thinking and collaborative behaviour.
- Excellent and effective communication skills
- Risk Management: The ability to identify risks, balance the threats and opportunities associated with the risks, take appropriate mitigating action against the risks, track and manage risk over their lifetime.
- Problem Solving: Must be able to proactively solve business problems that deal with uncertainty e.g., demand profile planning including location, skills, and resource.
- Business/ Financial acumen: Knowledgeable in business strategy and the drivers of organisational performance, including people drivers of performance and financial literacy (e.g., business KPIs, business cases, SAP Ariba reporting.
- Experience in analytics and reporting ideally- SAP analytics and Excel.
In nutshell, we are looking for someone who can manage deliveries, finance/ budgets and risk management.
Nice to have:
- Hold others to account: Ability to demand high standards and values led behaviours from our suppliers.
- Working alongside other subject matter experts to build an overview of works underway or in scope. Develop required and associated planning and policies to ensure seamless delivery.
- A working knowledge of the Electricity at Work Act would be helpful.
- Accredited Commercial / Client / Principal Designer under Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015 (CDM) would also be a bonus.
Your Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) increasing with service
- 10% on target bonus
- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme
- Direct share scheme
- Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
- 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
- Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
- BT TV with TNT Sports and NOW Entertainment
Our leadership standards
Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.
Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.
Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.
About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
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.
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.
