Senior Network Strategy Manager

Hybrid 3 days a week together out of our London, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Ipswich, or Belfast offices (flexible 2 days remote wherever).

About the role

Join BT's Network Strategy & Futures team and help shape the long-term direction of one of the UK's largest and most complex telecommunications networks. This is a highly specialised strategic role focused on spectrum strategy, valuation and network investment decisions that influence BT's future mobile and fixed network capabilities.

Working alongside senior leaders across Networks, you'll assess emerging technologies, develop strategic recommendations, build high-value business cases and provide insight on major industry developments, from spectrum auctions and regulatory change through to competitor activity and future network evolution.

This is an opportunity to work on decisions with significant commercial impact, helping BT make informed investment choices that will shape our networks for years to come.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading the development of strategic recommendations that support BT's long-term network vision and investment priorities.
• Developing and evaluating spectrum strategy, valuation approaches and auction participation scenarios.
• Building complex business cases and financial models to support major network investment decisions.
• Assessing emerging technologies, market developments and regulatory changes to identify opportunities and risks.
• Producing strategic analysis on competitors, industry trends and network evolution.
• Supporting major strategic initiatives, including network transformation, mergers, acquisitions and future growth opportunities.
• Building strong relationships across Networks, Corporate Strategy, regulatory teams and wider business stakeholders.
• Presenting insights, recommendations and investment cases to senior leaders and executive audiences.

Essential Skills / Experience

To be considered for this role, you'll need to demonstrate experience in all three of the following areas:

• Experience of spectrum strategy, spectrum valuation and/or telecommunications spectrum auctions, including an understanding of the commercial, regulatory and policy considerations that underpin network investment decisions.
• Successful background in developing network, technology or spectrum strategies within a telecommunications environment, with a strong understanding of mobile network technologies, spectrum policy and regulatory frameworks.
• Experience building and presenting executive-level business cases and financial models to support major network, technology or infrastructure investment decisions.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Experience within a telecommunications, technology or strategy consultancy.
• Experience working with telecom operators, network infrastructure providers, and regulatory bodies.
• Experience assessing mergers, acquisitions or large-scale technology investment opportunities.
• Strong understanding of telecoms market dynamics, competitor analysis and strategic planning.
• Experience developing long-term demand forecasts, scenario modelling or techno-economic analysis.

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.