What you’ll be doing
1. Accountable for leading the delivery of project(s), programme or portfolio that are large, complex and represent significant benefit or risk to our customers and to BT. The delivery will be highly visible and recognisable.
2. Accountable for coordinating delivery activities which consists of a mixture of dedicated and shared resources, this will potentially include other internal specialists and external third parties.
3. Accountable for the full cycle delivery of commercial outcomes for technology developments and solutions.
4. Identifies opportunities to resolve risks and issues relating to delivery and any impacts on related components or teams.
5. Monitors all actions and activities, from scope to delivery, to ensure adherence to technical roadmaps, time and budget constraints.
6. Accountable for the completion of acceptance into service activities
7. Implements ways to improve team, process and service performance and suggest and implement changes to how the team operates.
8. Contributes to the development of innovative approaches and tools aimed at furthering BT Group's capabilities and alignment to BT strategy.
9. Implements the resolution of technical delivery problems and ensuring all parties involved are engaged in resolutions.
10. Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in Technical Delivery.
11. Accountable for customer satisfaction associated with delivery, ensuring that the solution (and other deliverables) is of the right quality, value for money and accepted by the customer.
12. Accountable for ensure scope has been clearly defined and identifying and managing changes in scope – ensuring the appropriate governance is applied.
13. Manages project risk for BT and customers with an ability to use and adapt recognized project management methods and processes depending on elements of the risk profile and governance needs.
14. Provide direction to the team on requirements, scope, timescale, cost constraints and quality expectations.
15. Accountable for ensuring that defined methodologies, processes, and tools are consistently applied across the projects in scope.
The skills you'll need
16. Experience as a Project Manager, delivering complex solutions. The value of delivery (Not contract) will typically have been between £5 Million and £20 Million but this should not be viewed as the deciding dimension of this role versus others.
17. Experience of delivering a broad range of IT and Service Mgmt tool sets. Ideally this should be in a range of industry sectors.
18. Highly developed project management skills with experience of delivering technical solutions to Enterprise customers.
19. Experience in both waterfall lifecycle and agile delivery.
20. Expected to have attained an advanced project management qualification – Prince 2 Practitioner, MSP, APM RPP etc
21. Great stakeholder management skills. Ability to work with multiple internal and external partners to deliver great outcomes for our customers and business.
22. Excellent communication and inter-personal skills.
23. Commercially and financially astute and able to seize opportunities to improve profit or new business.
24. Strong leadership skills with the ability to create a culture of high performance.
25. Ability to work with complete independence and autonomy.
26. Negotiation, communication, and decision-making skills.
27. Ability to interpret Commercial Contracts and identify areas of risk and/opportunity.
28. Ability to understand and assess risk.
29. Ability to build a culture of continuous learning and development and mutual support.
30. Ability to connect with our customers and grasp the challenges faced by their business.
31. Building and managing teams.
32. Experience of producing accurate and timely management information to support decision making.
33. Expert user of MS Tools – in particular, MS Project.
Our leadership standards
Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.
Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.
Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.
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.