Specialised Estate Professional

Job Description

Why this job matters

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, Strategy 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 primary purpose of this role involves the delivery of key projects including rationalisation and closure of specialised estate buildings for disposal and handback to landlords.

This role will be based in Birmingham following a hybrid working pattern of three days a week in office and two days a week remote.

What you’ll be doing

• 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 possession briefs - owning and driving the delivery of specific recovery, clearance and decommissioning 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
• Engage with stakeholder representatives impacted by portfolio plans, managing relationships and resolving conflict
• Own the engagement and data gathering required for business decisions and to inform the cashflows supporting the business cases in line with P&FS governance
• Own the delivery of the projects to final closure including changes, management of risks and resolutions in line with project management principles
• A lead interface in delivery of vacation possession and decommissioning projects including the project management of P&FS and wider BT delivery partners
• Is responsible for the regular updating of all systems with latest information to allow financial, delivery timescale and lease event tracking.

You'll have the following skills and experience

• Relationship management: strong relationship management skills. To build a network of stakeholders both within the property team and wider across BT Group
• Supplier management: strong supplier management skills to manage BT’s outsourced business rates partner
• Project management: strong programme delivery management skills. Able to pull out key deliverables/ milestones, interdependencies & to track, report and communicate jeopardy to business audiences. Ideally APM qualified or working towards
• Financial and budgetary planning: preparation, tracking and reporting of programme budgets for a portfolio of projects
  
• Real Estate: (desirable) experience gained or member of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

Benefits

• Annual On target bonus 10% (personal and company multipliers)
• BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• Life Assurance
• Direct share scheme
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans
• My Discounts gives colleagues access to unbeatable savings on everyday purchases at hundreds of retailers
• Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership
• Great support for working parents including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave
• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
• Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community
• Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV’

About us

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.

While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies.

Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.