Office Estate Strategy Manager Job Req ID: 42664 Posting Date: 7 Jan 2025 Function: Property Unit: Finance & Business Services Location: Snowhill, Birmingham, United Kingdom Salary: Attractive salary & benefits Recruiter: Carla Ballinger Hiring Manager: Kirsty Macdiarmid Career Grade: D Our hybrid working means in this role you are required to be in the office 3 days per week with the option of working from a place of your choice 2 days per week What you'll be doing - As an Automation professional the role involves delivering the E2E development and delivery of processes from planning and tracking of deliverables and ensuring stakeholders are regularly appraised of status and progress requirements analysis through to support of live processes. You will lead on driving automation initiatives to improve customer satisfaction, increase revenues and decrease costs and defining the standards across our automation capability, keeping up to date with BT Security policies and work in a way that ensures data protection by design. - Work with the business - You will represent GBS by working closely with various cross functional teams for automation and work end to end automation support & solutions covering requirements gathering, design, development, UAT, deployment and maintenance with their support. You will plan and track of deliverables and ensure stakeholders are regularly appraised of status and progress throughout. - Learning new technologies - In a fast moving technology space you will have the opportunity to use your experience in automation to learn new intelligent automation technologies then taking this knowledge you will train the new capabilities out to your team, defining BTs automation strategy going forward. - Support our growth - You will lead on evolving our service to ensure we excel in meeting requirements, KPI's, and customer satisfaction, through the maintenance of our live automations and leadership in taking forward ideas. You will also be supporting the delivery of new solutions including future technologies (AI etc) which may include managing third party vendors. - Live platform - You will ensure all code released into production is reviewed and meets the specified design standards set out by the CoE, leading on the control of releases into production, ensuring that all governance is followed and there is no impact to existing DB & live automations. The experience you'll need - Experience with delivering robotic process automations - Experience and knowledge of project management in a structured environment - An understanding of, and a willingness to adhere to, formal change control procedures and disciplines. - Ability to liaise with senior level stakeholder representatives in a rational and measured manner and to communicate project progress, issues, risks and solutions - An aptitude for problem solving, with the ability to take a logical route to the source of an error - Good written skills with the ability to produce clear and concise documentation - Background in software delivery advantageous - A self-starter who delivers high quality work and can adapt to new challenges, either on their own or as part of a team. The skills you'll have - Design, build, testing and support of automations. - An understanding of configuration/scripting type technologies, such as excel macros / c#. - Quick learner (picking up skills on the job) - Aptitude for problem solving and logical thinking - Customer Engagement/ Business Analysis - Robotic Process Automation (Blue Prism) - Excel Macro / Access (VBA) - R scripting - SQL scripting - Microsoft Technologies (.Net) - Web Development What's in it for you? What are the benefits? We work across the group with a wide range of stakeholders including many of the senior leadership teams in the business. We are committed to providing all colleagues with the right opportunities to develop their career. There will be an opportunity to learn from a diverse team, with wide ranging experience. The opportunity to make a difference is huge You'll get a broad understanding of all parts of BT and the experience will be valuable in any future roles. - 10% on target bonus - Life Assurance - Pension scheme - If you pay in a minimum of 5% of your pensionable salary every month we will pay in 10% - 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans - Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages - BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids - Shared Parental leave - maximum amount of leave you can share with your partner is 50 weeks - 3 volunteering days per year - Competitive employee discount on BT/EE products - Competitive friends and family discount on EE Mobile Why this job matters As part of the P&FS team this role is responsible for the delivery and retaining standards of brilliant workspace to support our colleagues to do their best work, in the right strategic locations. The Property team over the next 10 years and beyond will be continuing to deliver key projects and programmes transforming the BT Groups strategic ambitions. BT continue to invest in our Workplace producing quality refurbishments that our colleagues deserve. The office strategy team also support an ever evolving operational estate. In this role you will manage the property life-cycle strategy and activities within the regional office estate, ensuring that the shape of the regional office estate meets the occupation and usage requirements for Business Units and is consistent with the BT Property strategy across the UK. It's a great team and great place to work What you'll be doing - Coordinate and lead property projects to drive the ongoing delivery of property strategy and plans. Property projects include, large refurbishment projects, vacations & closures, people moves and minor works/furniture changes - Ensure collaborative working relationships with internal and external partners to provide solutions and implement projects to ensure the strategy for office projects delivers the desired colleague experience as set out in the BT workplace design and standards guide, whilst also ensuring that it is aligned with CFU occupation trends gathered from learnings and evidence based data - Provide technical expertise, strategic consultancy to the business and thought leadership, ensuring feasibility of projects and programmes and the delivery of real property and commercial benefits to the business unit or region of responsibility - Shape the UK office estate property strategy to meet the needs of CFUs, managing property life cycle events to deliver an office estate suitable for our customers' needs - Break down problems using insight and data analysis to make decisions that will benefit my customers and the wider BT Group business - Identify and implement industry best practise for workplace across the BT's UK property portfolio - Identify and execute opportunities to deliver financial savings across the property portfolio within area of responsibility The experience you'll have - Experience of working in a collaborative manner across multiple teams, with diverse skills and experience is essential. - Experience of managing the delivery of a workplace strategy is essential across a large property portfolio. - Experience in influencing and relationship managing senior stakeholders is essential. - Experience in large-scale, multi-phased workplace change projects. - Ability to manage and oversee multiple concurrent projects and work both in a team and independently to deadlines is essential. The skills you'll need to succeed - Stakeholder engagement: able to engage effectively with stakeholders to fully understand and meet their needs, from CEO level all the way through the organisation. - Technical insight : industry wide thought leadership on workplace design principles and trends. - People management: ability to manage and lead a project team, driving great performance and engagement. - Complex programme management: able to plan, deliver and monitor complex people change programmes delivered through a number of discrete projects, recognising and managing interdependencies to ensure delivery on time, on budget and to the standards required. - Technical expertise : A good understanding of how technology can be used to gather relevant data to inform decision making. Experience in data analysis. - Multi- tasking: able to manage time effectively to deliver several projects and different project types at any one time - Good communicator: able to use a variety of communication styles. Able to determine the most effective and appropriate communication across a variety of different circumstances, stakeholders, colleagues, suppliers and customers. Building good relationships is key What's in it for you? What are the benefits? We work across the group with a wide range of stakeholders including many of the senior leadership teams in the business. We are committed to providing all colleagues with the right opportunities to develop their career. There will be an opportunity to learn from a diverse team, with wide ranging experience. The opportunity to make a difference is huge You'll get a broad understanding of all parts of BT and the experience will be valuable in any future roles. - 25 days' annual leave, plus bank holidays, and additional days for length of service - 10% on target bonus - Life Assurance - Pension scheme - If you pay in a minimum of 5% of your pensionable salary every month we will pay in 10% - 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans - Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages - BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids - Shared Parental leave - maximum amount of leave you can share with your partner is 50 weeks - 3 volunteering days per year - Competitive employee discount on BT/EE products - Competitive friends and family discount on EE Mobile 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. About us BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet. Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding. We value diversity and celebrate difference. 'We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It's fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.' We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you'll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won't be alone: we'll be there with help and support, learning and development. This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it. 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.