Specialised Estate Manager (Simpler Networks)

Job Description

Job Req ID: 59578

Location: Birmingham, Manchester or London

About the role

Corporate Units play an integral role in setting and delivering our strategy and partnering with our business units in their plans for growth. We shape and steer the direction of the business by managing our people, finances, suppliers, shared services and buildings. And if that’s not enough, we also oversee our legal, regulatory and compliance obligations too.

A career in the Corporate Units is close to the strategic action and never dull. We exist as four centralised teams – Finance and Business Services, Human Resources, Legal, Company Secretary and Regulatory Affairs and Corporate Affairs.

This is an exciting role working across both the huge BT estate portfolio and at the centre of the BT property team. The role will be at the forefront of setting the estate strategy for BT’s operational buildings and will work with stakeholders across BT in the delivery of key projects including rationalisation and closure of specialised estate buildings for disposal and handback to landlords.

What you’ll be doing

• Specialised estate strategy lead working with key Networks. Openreach and BT International stakeholders to identify rationalisation and consolidation opportunities
• Deliver key projects to contribute to the overall BTP&FS strategic plan
• Supporting the formulation of a transformational specialised estate strategy, optimising and rationalising the specialised estate portfolio
• Undertaking early due diligence and/or stakeholder engagement to determine/challenge reprovision needs for a pipeline building closures
• Determining and agreeing vacation and reprovision briefs - owning and driving the delivery of multiple projects for disposals and hand backs to landlords
• Working across P&FS teams as a key interface and information provider on the estate and/or to CFUs/CUs
• Own the delivery of the projects to final closure including changes, management of risks and resolutions in line with project management principles

Essential Skills / Experience

• Strong relationship management skills, with the ability to build and sustain a broad and effective network of stakeholders across the property team and wider BT Group, driving collaboration and alignment to achieve shared outcomes
• Proven programme or project management capability, able to define and structure key deliverables, milestones and interdependencies, ensuring plans are clear, realistic and aligned to business priorities
• Ability to monitor delivery and provide clear, concise reporting on progress, risks and issues, with confidence in communicating potential jeopardy to a range of stakeholders.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Experience operating within property, estates or facilities environments, with an understanding of how strategic programmes impact operational delivery
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage and manage senior stakeholders and balance competing priorities
• Experience using project planning and reporting tools to track progress, manage dependencies and provide insight to governance forums
• Proactive risk and issue management approach, with the ability to identify challenges early and implement effective mitigation strategies
• Commitment to continuous improvement, with experience identifying opportunities to enhance processes, improve delivery efficiency and strengthen stakeholder experience

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
• 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.