Business Planning & Project Professional

Job Description

Locations: Manchester OR London

About the role

You’ll join BT’s UK Sales & Commercial Strategy & Planning team, supporting a business that serves organisations ranging from small businesses through to companies with 250+ employees. With significant growth and transformation ambitions in this segment, this role plays an important part in helping the business deliver against its plans and continue to evolve how it operates.

Working within the Strategy & Planning team, you’ll be part of a central function that brings together all activity across the business into a single, joined-up plan. Acting as a “mission control,” the team ensures that business and financial plans are clearly defined, tracked, and delivered, while also supporting key programmes and projects that enable transformation.

As a Business Planning & Project Professional, you’ll work in close partnership with teams across the organisation to drive accountability, support delivery, and keep key priorities on track. You’ll operate across multiple stakeholders and levels, helping to ensure that plans stay aligned, risks are understood, and the business continues to move forward.

What you’ll be doing

• Support the development of integrated plans to deliver the medium-term plan (MTP)
• Lead and deliver projects/initiatives, underpinning growth ambitions
• Coordinate key activities across the business to ensure timelines and submissions are met
• Maintain and manage a centralised “one truth” business roadmap, covering commercial and transformation activity
• Track progress against plans, identifying delays and supporting actions to bring delivery back on track
• Drive accountability across teams by challenging performance and ensuring ownership of outcomes
• Identify risks and issues within plans and communicate their impact to governance forums
• Support the planning and delivery of executive-level reporting, including MBRs and QBRs
• Create clear, structured presentations for senior stakeholders and leadership forums

Essential Skills / Experience

• Commercial awareness, with understanding of business performance drivers and KPIs
• Experience in programme or project coordination within a business or commercial environment
• Capable in managing timelines, dependencies, and competing priorities
• Stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build relationships across the organisation
• Ability to challenge constructively and drive accountability for delivery
• Solid understanding of business strategy and organisational context

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Experience working within a strategy, planning, or transformation function
• Exposure to commercial or sales environments
• Familiarity with business planning cycles and governance frameworks
• Experience working with senior stakeholders or leadership teams

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

With over 180 years of heritage, BT Business has brought together our best people and capabilities into a B2B powerhouse serving 1.2 million business customers in the UK

We’re a leader for secure connectivity and collaboration platforms for businesses of all shapes and sizes, from big household names and government departments, right through to sole traders and new start-ups. But it’s not just the technology that matters, it’s what it can do to help them build stronger, smarter, more secure businesses.

We are Customer-First Challengers, who are Committed, Clear and Connected. We value diversity and inclusion and believe in making a positive impact. We connect for good by championing digital inclusion and equipping people, businesses, and communities with digital skills to thrive.

As a member of our team, you will be part of an organisation that celebrates difference, fosters innovation and provides you with opportunities to be your best. With millions of businesses relying on us daily, joining BT means you can be part of a diverse and multi-skilled team that makes a significant impact to society.