Project Manager

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About the role

Working in a highly complex fast paced environment the Project Manager is responsible for creating and leading an integrated team to deliver end-to-end projects ensuring they have a valid business benefit, deliver on time, within budget and to agreed quality criteria from conception through to market launch and transition into operations.

You will manage a virtual team of up to 100 people, including a number of 3rd party Suppliers, providing strong leadership across a number of Projects, depending on size and complexity.

You will work closely with stakeholders across the Organisation to shape the Projects and proactively solve conflict situations through problem-solving, negotiation, open communication and direct influencing.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading – Coordinating virtual teams (<100), working with external partners and suppliers, to deliver against business objectives.
• Influencing - Using business and domain expertise to affect project outcomes
• Planning – E2E planning of projects, including resources, negotiating and securing resources as required.
• Negotiating - Interlocking project with dependencies and dependant projects, securing prioritisation and alignment as required.
• Driving – E2E ownership of project. Ensure delivery to time, budget and quality as expected.
• Governing – responsible for project governance, budget management (<£5m), risk, issue and change management for the entire project.
• Reporting – Provides reports to time and standard as directed by PMO, socilaising within key stakeholder groups.
• Collaborating – working across all design and delivery partners to produce coherent project outcomes.
• Communicating – working across the stakeholder group, and up to Director level, visibly owning delivery, change and engagement for the project.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Leadership Skills - Able to provide effective leadership to the project team, and take appropriate action
• Communication Skills - Able to lead communication with stakeholders and work to drive strong, open and sustained communication channels both within the project team and with the wider stakeholder community. Up to ‘Director of’.
• Negotiation skills - able to work with stakeholders to shape the project and proactively solve conflict situations through problem-solving, negotiation, open communication and direct influencing
• Planning Skills – the ability to organize tasks in the right order, to hit the right outcome at the right time
• Budgeting Skills - able to proactively forecast and manage the project costs to forecasts, both Opex and Capex.
• Industry recognised Project Management Qualification.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Professional experience delivering complex technology projects (<£5m) within an Agile, and/or Gated Project Governance process.
• Excellent track record in enabling benefit realisation through project delivery within a fast paced, Technology environment in the telecoms business using a range of internal and external suppliers to deliver.
• Experience working with a range of stakeholders, up to ‘Director of’ levels
• Good knowledge of and experience with technology products and services.

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.