Project Manager

BT Group; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus 10%

Private GP access 24/7

Carers leave

Pension 5% employee + 10% employer

Holiday purchase scheme

Employee product discounts

Job summary

BT Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a Project Manager to lead end-to-end projects in a fast-paced, highly complex environment. You will manage a virtual team of up to 100 people, including 3rd party suppliers, delivering value while maintaining schedule and budget.

You will work with stakeholders across the organisation to shape projects, resolve conflicts, negotiate priorities, and drive delivery. The role supports a hybrid work pattern with three days in the office.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of project teams and delivery across complex programmes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and clear communication at all levels.
• Ability to forecast, plan resources and manage budgets across multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate virtual teams (up to 100) and external partners to meet business objectives.
• Influence outcomes through domain expertise and proactive problem solving.
• End-to-end planning of projects, including resource governance and securing necessary resources.
• Negotiate priorities and dependencies across projects to maintain schedule and benefits.
• Ensure delivery on time, budget and quality; maintain project governance and risk controls.
• Provide regular status reports to PMO and key stakeholders; drive alignment and engagement.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Negotiation

Planning

Budgeting

Job description

In this role, you will work in a highly complex, fast paced environment. As a Project Manager you will be responsible for creating and leading an integrated team to deliver end-to-end projects ensuring they have a valid business and customer benefit whilst delivering on time. You will manage a virtual team of up to 100 people, including a number of 3rd party Suppliers, providing strong leadership across a number of projects, depending on size and complexity. You will work closely with stakeholders across the organisation to shape the projects and proactively solve conflict situations through problem-solving, negotiation, open communication and direct influencing. You'll join a close-knit project management team of 13 people across three sites. The team stays connected through regular work and social calls, shared office time and frequent contact. This role can be based in Bristol or London and our hybrid working model means you are expected to be in the office 3 days per week.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading - Coordinating virtual teams (100), working with external partners and suppliers, to deliver against business objectives.
• Influencing - Using business and domain expertise to affect project outcomes
• Planning - E2E planning of projects, including resources, negotiating and securing resources as required.
• Negotiating - Interlocking project with dependencies and dependant projects, securing prioritisation and alignment as required.
• Driving - E2E ownership of project. Ensure delivery to time, budget and quality as expected.
• Governing - Responsible for project governance, budget management (£5m), risk, issue and change management for the entire project.
• Reporting - Provides reports to time and standard as directed by PMO, socialising within key stakeholder groups.
• Collaborating - Working across all design and delivery partners to produce coherent project outcomes.
• Communicating - Working across the stakeholder group, and up to Director level, visibly owning delivery, change and engagement for the project.
• Stakeholder relationships: You communicate clearly and build collaborative working relationships across teams.
• Decision-making: You show initiative, take ownership and have the confidence to make significant decisions.
• Attention to detail: You work carefully and are willing to get into the technical detail needed to understand and deliver a project.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Leadership Skills - Able to provide effective leadership to the project team, and take appropriate action.
• Communication Skills - Able to lead communication with stakeholders and work to drive strong, open and sustained communication channels both within the project team and with the wider stakeholder community. Up to 'Director of'.
• Negotiation skills - Able to work with stakeholders to shape the project and proactively solve conflict situations through problem-solving, negotiation, open communication and direct influencing
• Planning Skills - The ability to organise tasks in the right order, to hit the right outcome at the right time.
• Budgeting Skills - Able to proactively forecast and manage the project costs to forecasts, both Opex and Capex.

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.

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.

• 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