
Project Manager
Job Description
SC Clearance will be required for this role
About the role
We're looking for a Pre-Sales Project Manager to play a key role in shaping and supporting complex customer bids and major tender opportunities. This role combines project management and delivery expertise with strong commercial awareness and customer engagement skills to design innovative solutions that address customer challenges, strengthen our competitive position, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
You'll work closely with bid teams, solution designers, delivery specialists, and customers to develop credible delivery approaches, articulate customer benefits, and build confidence in BT's ability to deliver. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of customer strategy, project delivery, and business growth.
What you’ll be doing
- Lead the Project Management input into bids, tenders, and sales opportunities.
- Develop realistic delivery plans that consider risks, dependencies, governance requirements, and critical paths.
- Partner with technical and commercial teams to translate complex solutions into clear customer-focused outcomes.
- Produce persuasive bid content that explains the value and benefits of proposed solutions.
- Present delivery approaches to customers through meetings, workshops, presentations, and panel discussions.
- Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across customer and internal teams.
- Support governance activities and ensure delivery approaches align with recognised project management methodologies.
- Evaluate commercial considerations such as resource requirements, milestones, risks, and customer expectations when shaping delivery strategies.
- Contribute insight and expertise across network infrastructure opportunities, including WAN, LAN, Wireless and Telephony solutions.
Essential Skills / Experience
- Pre-sales project management expertise with the ability to support bids, tenders, and customer opportunities while developing credible delivery approaches.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, including the ability to build trust, influence senior stakeholders, and confidently present to customers.
- Project delivery and planning capability, including understanding of project governance, dependencies, critical paths, and recognised project management methodologies such as PRINCE2, APM, Agile, or similar frameworks.
Desirable Skills / Experience
- Experience delivering or supporting network infrastructure projects involving WAN, LAN, wireless, telephony, or related technologies.
- Knowledge of BT products, services, or delivery environments.
- Commercial awareness of bid economics, resource planning, and contractual delivery considerations.
- Experience creating customer value propositions and writing bid responses.
- Experience working within large-scale customer delivery or transformation programmes.
- Demonstrated strengths in strategic thinking, customer focus, critical thinking, and relationship building.
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
• 25 days Holiday
• 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
You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.
Ready to connect for good and help shape the future? Apply now.
Join us at a pivotal moment for BT Business. We are executing a multi-year transformation to restore growth, modernise at scale and unlock new markets beyond connectivity. Our ambition is clear – return to sustainable revenue and EBITDA growth, strengthen our market position, and deliver meaningful shareholder value through disciplined execution and bold reinvention.
We are fundamentally reshaping the business – simplifying our portfolio, digitising our customer experience and building market-leading capability across cyber, AI and managed services, all powered by the UK’s leading fixed and mobile networks. This is a shift from a legacy connectivity provider to a modern, solutions-led, AI-first business that can truly differentiate in a competitive and fast-moving market.
With execution momentum building and a clear path to growth, the opportunity now is to scale what works, accelerate performance and fully realise our potential. This is about delivering against ambitious financial outcomes while transforming how we operate – creating a business that is simpler, faster, more innovative and easier to do business with.
If you want to be part of the team shaping the turnaround of a multi-billion-pound business – and building a stronger, more competitive BT for the future – this is your moment.
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