Delivery Performance Operations and Planning Professional

Recruiter: Sowmya Reddy

Hiring Manager: Dimple Kumar

Career Grade: E

External Closing Date: 27th July, 26

About the role

Digital has a large number of initiatives that will deliver strategic outcomes for BT and its customers. These initiatives are in play across a number of different units within Digital, with links to every part of BT. It’s a complex show to keep on the road and this job matters because you will be part of the team that makes sure it does. Delivery Performance (DP) exists to assure the success of the Digital portfolio by strengthening quality and predictability through clear methodology, outcome measurement, and continuous improvement. It builds organisational memory of effective best‑practice standards, improves and simplifies how teams deliver work, and back programmes with delivery excellence and assurance to give transparent oversight of portfolio health and capacity, and address risks before they become issues.

The Delivery Performance Operations team will be essential in supporting the broader Delivery Performance Unit, running business reporting (monthly, quarterly, and annually for Digital, Group, and up to ExCo) on key Delivery Performance measures, such as earned value indices, flow efficiency and productivity metrics. It will lead the interface with Delivery Excellence ensuring accuracy of programme baselines, coordinate Quality Assurance reviews and recommendation tracking and support standards change management, as well as covering comms for the Delivery Performance unit.

The Delivery Performance Operations Professional will support the Delivery Performance Operations Lead with the coordination of standards governance, reporting, quality assurance and continuous improvement across the Digital portfolio. The Delivery Performance Operations Professional caters to a wide range of activities including initiative planning, reporting, risk/issue identification, tracking, budget management and documentation, ensuring successful outcomes across the unit and wider Digital portfolio .

What you’ll be doing

• Advanced expertise in Jira (including Advanced Roadmaps) to structure hierarchies, manage cross-portfolio dependencies, and enable integrated, multi-level reporting across programmes and initiatives.
• Strong capability in designing and using rich Jira filters and JQL to extract, segment, and curate high-quality datasets for centralised reporting, governance, and insight generation.
• Proven experience leveraging Jira dashboards and reporting (e.g. velocity, burndown, delivery status) to provide accurate, real-time visibility and support senior stakeholder decision-making.
• Deep understanding of Jira data models (epics, features, stories, fields, hierarchies) to ensure consistent data standards that underpin reliable portfolio-level reporting and performance insights.
• Experience establishing Jira as a single source of truth for delivery performance, reducing manual reporting overhead and enabling scalable, standardised central reporting across teams.
• Supports the management of Key Performance Indicators and operation of associated business reporting
• Caters with the coordination and management of all aspects of the mobilisation and operation of QA reviews, from stakeholder management, onboarding, scheduling, collection of materials and action tracking.
• Captures QA improvement recommendations and supports DP Operations Lead in managing to completion
• Evaluates and identifies problem themes and opportunities across the Digital Portfolio
• Caters to the development of scoping and plans for Delivery Performance-driven initiatives with clear milestones and well-defined deliverables
• Caters with the coordination of change management governance of key Delivery standards and processes as they evolve
• Contributes to communications planning and copy to support Delivery Performance goals

Essential Skills / Experience

• Stakeholder management
• Portfolio management
• Dashboard/JIRA
• Project / programme management
• Documentation & Records Management:
• Problem solving
• Business analysis

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Attention to detail
• Risk management
• Collaboration
• Presenting

BT 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 ’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.