Senior Manager - UK Projects and Construction Delivery

Job Description

Closing Date: 28th April

About the role

As Senior Manager, UK Projects and Construction Delivery, you will play a central role in transforming the BT estate for the future. BT has one of the largest property portfolios in the UK and this underpins the UK telecommunication sector. You will be responsible for shaping and delivering a complex portfolio of capital construction activity across BT’s UK operational and office estate. With a strong focus on retained exchanges and large scale programme delivery, this role operates at the heart of a high volume, highly complex delivery environment and is critical to the successful execution of BT’s Operational Estate Strategy.

You will be a proactive leader of delivery across internal teams and supply chain partners, working within a broad stakeholder landscape to unlock opportunities to drive pace and value, improve ways of working and ensure our infrastructure investment supports business transformation, cost optimisation and future business needs.

This role sits at an important stage in a long running programme that will evolve significantly over time. Working closely with colleagues across projects, construction delivery, networks and the wider business, you will help shape how this work is delivered as it scales, influencing delivery models, governance and capability. It is a visible and impactful opportunity for a senior leader who brings fresh thinking, thrives in complexity and is motivated by being part of one of the UKs most important transformation programme.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the end to end delivery of a large programme of capital construction projects and programmes across BT’s UK estate, ensuring outcomes align to strategic, operational and transformation objectives.
• Provide senior leadership across multi disciplinary and cross functional teams, setting clear direction, governance and accountability to enable safe, timely and cost effective delivery.
• Act as a collaborative senior stakeholder partner across internal and external audiences, including internal customers and delivery partners, managing expectations and resolving issues in a complex operating environment.
• Own portfolio level risk, issue and dependency management, adapting delivery approaches and governance to protect outcomes and benefits realisation as the programme evolves.
• Lead financial management across the portfolio, including capital cost planning, forecasting, funding approvals, spend control and value optimisation opportunities.
• Plan and allocate resources in line with current and future demand, ensuring delivery teams and internal customers have clear visibility of priorities, capacity and pipeline.
• Role model, build, lead and develop high performing delivery teams, recruiting, mentoring and coaching project professionals and strengthening succession and future leadership capability.
• Drive delivery excellence and continuous improvement through an outcomes‑focused approach across internal teams and the supply chain, celebrating excellence, addressing underperformance and embedding best practice.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Significant experience leading large scale, variable complexity construction projects and programmes, with end to end accountability across mobilisation, delivery and closure.
• A proven track record of high volume delivery in fast paced environments, managing multiple parallel workstreams and complex capital budgets, typically in the £1m–£20m+ range.
• Strong construction and built environment expertise, with hands on delivery experience.
• Deep capability in project, programme and portfolio management, with the ability to tailor methodologies, controls and governance to suit risk, scale and delivery context.
• Demonstrable strength in risk, issue and dependency management, maintaining momentum despite ambiguity, evolving operating models and competing priorities.
• Ability to identify opportunities, unlock value and innovation and implement into establish programmes under a continuous improvement mindset.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including capital cost planning, forecasting, funding approvals, spend control and value optimisation across delivery portfolios.
• Experience mobilising, leading and developing internal delivery teams, including recruiting, mentoring and building capability and succession over time.
• Proven ability to lead and influence complex supply chains, managing contractors, consultants and partners to drive performance, address under delivery and achieve outcomes at scale.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills, with confidence operating at senior levels across complex internal and external stakeholder landscapes.
• A strong delivery mindset, combining pace, resilience and problem solving ability with a commitment to continuous improvement, inclusive leadership and learning.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Experience delivering construction or estate programmes within regulated, infrastructure led or large corporate environments such as utilities, telecoms, public sector or large national estates.

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:

• Company car scheme (or cash alternative)
• 15% on target annual bonus
• Private healthcare for you and your family
• 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.