Senor Digital Strategist

Job Description

About the role

The Senior Digital Strategist is a pivotal forward-looking role within the Group Strategy & Change organisation. Reporting to the Director of Group Strategic Partnerships & Digital Strategy, this role sits adjacent to BT’s most critical Big Tech partners, to stay close to the latest developments. You bring experience and expertise, keeping pulse on the latest technological developments, with a focus on the future of technology and its impact on BT, providing thought leadership and actionable insight on emerging trends, digital ecosystems, and the evolving competitive and technological landscape. This is a strategy role that requires a blend of strategic thinking, technical fluency, and providing actionable insights. This not a delivery or programme management role.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the identification and analysis of disruptive technology trends (AI, cloud, edge, IoT, etc.) and explain their implications for BT’s business models, products, services, and ways of working.
• Understand BT’s digital and corporate strategy by working closely with the Chief Digital Officer and Chief Strategy & Change Officer, ensuring all recommendations are sound within the broader strategic context.
• Advise senior executives on strategic opportunities and risks arising from new technologies, digital platforms, and shifts in the global tech landscape.
• Build robust, data-driven business cases and strategic recommendations for BT’s long-term growth and digital transformation.
• Engage cross-functional teams and external partners to ensure alignment and buy-in for strategic initiatives. Work closely with the Group Strategy team to ensure that BT’s digital strategy is coherent with broader strategic objectives and deliverables.
• Draw on a wide network of experts in enterprises, start-ups, academia etc., to develop informed opinions and insights.
• Where relevant, represent BT’s perspective on technology strategy in industry forums, with partners, and internally at the highest levels.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Demonstrated capabilities as a futurist & thought leader with the ability to inform, inspire, and influence senior stakeholders.
• Extensive experience in the tech & strategy sectors, with technical acumen and the ability to translate complex technology trends into actionable business strategies.
• In-depth understanding of hyperscalers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft etc.), neo cloud providers, major ISVs, chip makers, and the evolving digital ecosystem and its resultant implications for BT.
• Demonstrated ability to stay ahead of technology trends and anticipate their impact on business models and value chains.
• Extensive understanding of the strategy consulting approach, including hypothesis testing, building frameworks and taking a structured approach to complex topics.
• Highly analytical, with a proven ability to synthesize complex technical topics to deliver clear, compelling recommendations.
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the gravitas to engage senior executives and external partners.
• This is an individual contributor role. You must be a strong team player, able to lead & influence cross-functional stakeholders, and contribute to a high-performance, collaborative culture.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Experience in telecoms, infrastructure, networked industries, or regulated markets.
• Experience publishing insights, speaking at industry forums, or engaging with academia/start-ups.
• Credibility in translating external innovation & trends to enterprise reality.
• Prior work alongside or within technology partners, alliances, or ecosystems.
• Understanding of capital intensity, long investment cycles, and platform economics.

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.