Regional Office Estate Strategy Manager

BT Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

BT Group is seeking a property and workplace leader to shape the regional office estate in line with BT Property strategy across the UK. You will manage lifecycle activities, deliver refurbishments, relocations and fit-outs, and partner with stakeholders to align with business objectives.

You will use data and occupancy trends to inform long-range estate planning, drive efficiency, and foster a modern, engaging workplace across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to influence senior leaders and occupiers.
• Proven project management experience across multiple concurrent property/workplace projects.
• Experience leading workplace change, moves, fit-out or estate transformation initiatives.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate diverse property and workplace projects across the regional office estate.
• Partner with stakeholders and suppliers to deliver workplace solutions aligned to business objectives.
• Provide strategic advice on workplace, property and estate planning activities.
• Manage property lifecycle activities and optimise office space utilisation.
• Use occupancy data to support decision-making and long-term estate planning.
• Drive delivery of workplace initiatives reflecting best practice and trends.
• Identify opportunities to reduce costs and deliver financial benefits.
• Build strong relationships and ensure effective communication for project delivery.
• Coordinate multiple projects, manage risks, dependencies and timelines.
• Contribute to development of workplace design standards for modern environments.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project management

Workplace change leadership

Communication & organisation

Education

Degree in property/construction/project management

APM or RICS qualification

Job description

About the role

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.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead and coordinate a diverse range of property and workplace projects, including office refurbishments, relocations, fit-outs, closures, occupancy changes and workplace improvements.
• Partner with internal stakeholders, occupiers and external suppliers to develop and deliver workplace solutions that enhance colleague experience and support business objectives.
• Provide strategic advice and subject matter expertise on workplace, property and estate planning activities, ensuring projects are commercially viable and aligned to wider business priorities.
• Manage property lifecycle activities across the regional office estate, helping to shape the future workplace strategy and optimise office space utilisation.
• Use data, insight and occupancy trends to support decision-making, identify opportunities and inform long-term estate planning.
• Drive the delivery of workplace initiatives that reflect industry best practice, emerging workplace trends and evolving business requirements.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce costs and deliver financial benefits across the property portfolio.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business, ensuring effective communication, collaboration and successful project delivery.
• Coordinate multiple concurrent projects and priorities, managing risks, dependencies and timelines to achieve successful outcomes.
• Support the development and implementation of workplace design standards, helping to create modern, flexible and engaging working environments.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence a wide range of stakeholders, from senior leaders to office occupiers, ensuring business requirements are understood and successfully delivered.
• Proven project management experience, coordinating multiple concurrent projects, people and activities across a complex property or workplace environment while delivering to agreed timescales and objectives.
• Experience leading workplace change, office moves, fit-out, redesign or estate transformation projects, including requirements gathering, feasibility assessments and project delivery.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, collaborate across multiple teams and deliver successful outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Knowledge of workplace strategy, office estate management or property lifecycle planning across a multi-site portfolio.
• Experience using data, insights and technology to support decision making, space planning and workplace strategy development.
• Understanding of workplace design principles, colleague experience and emerging workplace trends.
• Experience working within commercial property, facilities management, retail, construction, fit-out or other occupied-space environments.
• Knowledge of workplace change management methodologies, tools and best practices.
• Understanding of UK property markets, property transactions or property law.
• APM, RICS or other relevant property, workplace or project management qualification.
• Degree qualified in a property-related, construction, project management or similar discipline.
• Willingness to travel across the North East of England and Scotland to support stakeholders, projects and office locations.

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. Your core benefits include:

• 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.

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.