Planning and Strategy Manager

BT Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A telecommunications company in the United Kingdom seeks a Strategy & Planning Manager to oversee major planning cycles and analyze trends influencing strategy. The ideal candidate will excel in working with data, simplifying complex information, and engaging with senior leaders. Responsibilities include unifying business reviews, tracking strategic KPIs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align plans. This role offers a competitive annual on-target bonus and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Annual on target bonus up to 10%

Pension scheme with employer contributions

25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays

Carer's leave

Family Leave policy

Enhanced women's health support

Life Assurance

Colleague discounts on broadband packages

Discounted mobile plans

Savings on everyday purchases

Discounted TV memberships

Healthcare Cash Plan options

Volunteering days

Electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement

Private virtual GP appointments

Qualifications

• Understanding of commercial and financial performance.
• Ability to work analytically with data.
• Familiar and confident with senior stakeholders.
• Effective organizational skills to manage priorities.
• Strategic mindset with identification of delivery enablers.
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly.

Responsibilities

• Bringing together the monthly Business Unit Review and Medium-Term Plan for Wholesale.
• Sharing recommendations with senior leaders, including the Wholesale MD.
• Tracking key actions and aligning with senior stakeholders.
• Reporting on key strategic KPIs.
• Joining up plans with customer and product teams.
• Digging into data for commercial recommendations.

Skills

Analytical skills with data

Story-telling with data

Effective communication

Organizational skills

Strategic mindset

Job description

Overview

As a Strategy & Planning Manager in BT Wholesale, you'll play a key part in helping us make good decisions and deliver on our plans. You'll work closely with senior leaders, support major planning cycles, and help analyse trends that influence our strategy. The Wholesale Sales function partners with and delivers capability to our biggest customers (across the UK and beyond), who in turn deliver communication services to their customers. In Wholesale, we leverage BT's assets, diversity and sales excellence to provide these customers with best in class, innovative technology that empowers their customers' future. You'll be someone who enjoys working with data, spotting what matters, and sharing insights in a clear and engaging way. Importantly, you have a talent for story-telling with data, which will help you build the case for change within the business as you draw on data and analytical techniques. You'll also work with teams across the business - Product, Digital, Customer Experience and more - to make sure everyone is aligned and moving in the same direction. You take the complex and make it simple, with the confidence to present your ideas with senior leaders.

What you'll be doing

• Bringing together the monthly Business Unit Review and Medium-Term Plan for Wholesale
• Sharing recommendations with senior leaders, including the Wholesale MD
• Tracking key actions and aligning with senior stakeholders
• Reporting on our key strategic KPIs
• Working closely with customer, product and trading teams to join up plans
• Helping shape responses to strategic questions, competitor activity and market changes
• Digging into data to recommend commercial interventions and support gap-closure plans

Qualifications & attributes

• Understanding of commercial & financial performance and what drives results
• Working analytically with data and turning insights into clear stories
• You are familiar & confident working with senior stakeholders, keeping them aligned with key actions, presenting data/insight and telling the story behind it
• Effective organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities
• A strategic, curious mindset. You can identify enablers for successful delivery
• Effective communication and can simplify complex information
• You work well in virtual or cross-functional teams

Benefits

• Annual on target bonus up to 10%
• BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays with the option to buy up to one week's work of your contracted hours. This will also increase with service.
• 2 weeks carer's leave
• Our new Family Leave policy. You will receive 18 weeks at full pay, eight weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It is for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
• Enhanced women's health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
• Life Assurance (4 x life cover pay)
• 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.
• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
• Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community.
• Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement
• 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues