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You will lead matrixed and multi-functional teams from across BT lines of business and business partners to develop and launch profitable products as part of the BT Portfolio Strategy, to create the most commercially successful portfolio of networked IT services. These portfolio developments will drive and support the business success of BT Business in terms of market leadership, revenue and profit growth, cost reduction and customer experience.
What you’ll be doing
- Project management of the development and launch of new portfolio developments using the BT operating model and launch processes, across all phases.
- Contribute to the creation of portfolio development roadmaps for specific portfolio areas with Capability Leads and cross functional teams. To include initial high level assessments of timescales and costs.
- Delivery of portfolio developments and launches to time, cost and quality as measured through the relevant agreed goals, objectives and KPIs.
- Contribute within the business context of achievement of the relevant business benefits (revenue, profitability, cost saving, customer experience) as per the approved business cases and as reviewed at Post Investment Reviews.
- Leadership, management and inspiration of the multifunctional virtual team in the context of direction setting and motivation of the team in the context of better, faster, cheaper portfolio development which drives competitiveness and growth and puts the customer first. Leadership also involves the proactive reflection of market unit and capability unit priorities into team direction.
- Building relationships across a broad range of stakeholders; developing collaborative programme delivery plans to take new concepts through to in-life, whilst managing associated risk, issues, dependencies, assumptions and constraints.
Experience you'll have
- Strategic Business acumen: Knowledgeable in business strategy and the drivers of organisational performance, including people drivers of performance and financial literacy (e.g. business OKRs, business cases), as well as optimising the software development and service lifecycle. Must be strategic and independent in thinking.
- Waterfall and Agile delivery: a thorough understanding of both methodologies is required and an ability to run deliveries across both methods to develop a single product. Knowledge of BT system stacks and the current and future architecture is highly desirable as is a strong background in engineering.
- Analysis: The ability to apply logical thinking during the process of gathering and analysing information, testing hypotheses and/or designing and testing solutions.
- Problem solving: working collaboratively to find creative solutions to problems, handling abstract concepts, ambiguity and complexity with skill and helping others to handle them too.
- Engagement: Ability to persuade and influence diverse groups of senior stakeholders, with sophisticated skills to gain cooperation in complex scenario, navigates conflict and ambiguous situations.
- At least 2 years recent and end-to-end Programme/Project Management experience.
- A Project Management/Service Management qualification such as Prince, ITIL, PMP, Agile or equivalent.
- Preferred – Experience of delivering products or projects with security technologies and vendors.
The skills you’ll need
Benefits
At BT, we entertain, educate, and empower millions of people every single day. We’re a brand built on connecting people – whether that’s friends, family, businesses, or communities. Working here, you’ll receive an attractive salary and a range of competitive benefits, but – more than that – you’ll be joining an ambitious organisation with a culture of togetherness, collaboration, and inclusivity, that takes a genuine and proactive interest in your progress and development.
On top of a competitive salary, your benefits will include:
- An annual bonus of up to 10% (company & personal performance dependent)
- BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
- 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
- Range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan
- World-class training and development opportunities
- Heavily discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages
- Access to 100’s of retail discounts including the BT shop
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.
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