Procurement IT Programme Manager (12-month FTC)

Job Req ID: 59178

About the role

In this role, you’ll lead major transformation programmes across Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), S2P, Supplier Management, Buy Journey, and Finance/Commercial processes that impact teams across BT, including modernizing processes, and driving global adoption that embraces Agile best practices to drive high quality, frequent delivery of business outcomes at pace. The role demands strong planning, governance, senior stakeholder management, commercial acumen, and rigorous risk management across multi-year global programmes.

What you’ll be doing

• Own end-to-end programme planning, including roadmap creation, milestone definition, resource planning, and delivery sequencing.
• Develop integrated programme plans covering business readiness, technology, data, testing, change, and vendor timelines.
• Manage senior leaders (Directors, etc.) across geographies, aligning expectations, scope, priorities, and timelines.
• Create high-impact executive packs, business cases, dashboards, and value-tracking reports.
• Communicate complex details in a simplified, strategic manner tailored for senior stakeholders.
• Own programme budgets, forecasts, multi-year investment planning, and cost governance.
• Track dependencies across technology, business, data, and vendor delivery; escalate proactively where required.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Proven track record of delivering large-scale procurement/finance platform implementations.
• Deep understanding of S2P ( SAP, Ariba), CLM ( Sirion/ Icertis) , procurement processes, supplier management, and financial governance.
• Effective planning, governance, risk management, and dependency management skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder presentation skills, including engagement with senior leaders.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Experience managing global stakeholders and multi-market rollouts.
• Expertise in platform implementation, integrations, data migration, and testing.
• Strong financial management and vendor negotiation capabilities.
• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or equivalent certifications.
• Experience in shared services, procurement transformation, or enterprise digital programmes.

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
• • Equalised 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

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.

BT Group 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 Group’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.