Strategy Development Manager
BT Plc.
Strategy Development Manager
Salary Not Specified
BT Plc., Portsoken, Tower Hamlets
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 16 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 3deaa67e58f4442c945ec7b257bde48f
Full Job Description
- Plan and coordinate execution of the annual strategy development process, driving collaboration and alignment with CFUs and CU:
- Prepare and refine the overall strategy development process including defining the strategic agenda.
- Support BT Group's direction setting by driving collaboration with relevant CFUs through resolution of strategic questions, to ensure full ownership and appropriation from key stakeholders
- Set and track key milestones and deliverables through A2030 KPIs, strategic programmes and Unit MTP delivery
- Collect, understand and consolidate inputs from key stakeholders and in the CFUs/CUs
- Challenge inputs against wider Group strategy, risks and priorities
- Drive agenda of key review/iteration meetings
- Drive continual improvement in the strategic planning process
- Contribute to designing BT Group's strategy and articulating the key priorities for the year
- Gather input from the CFUs/CUs to define objectives, milestones, success measures, and key priorities while ensuring alignment to BT Group's strategy
- Support Strategy Committee with meeting preparation and facilitation
- Prepare for key strategy days (ExCo, Board, SLT) with agenda, meeting design, materials consolidation, quality control, involvement of key stakeholders, logistics and execution
- Monitor key strategy, technology and competitor risks facing the Group, propose mitigations and prepare risk reports
- Coordinate and prepare key components of BT Group's annual report, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and effective communication of BT Group's progress against its strategy.
Excellent project management skills; great at execution and detail orientated - Ability to manage large number of fragmented stakeholders
- Strong financial background and ability to understanding key drivers; able to assess quality of inputs provided by CFUs/CUs (e.g. evaluating business cases, financial planning)
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to define and manage requirements both effectively and in a timely manner
- Insight and results driven, with challenging and fact based mindset - able to frame and model complex business problems across markets and segments
- High level understanding of strategy consulting approach, including understanding of hypothesis testing, unit economics, profitability and product lifecycle management
- Exemplary communication and influencing skills with all levels of the organisation
- Create inspiring messages, considering different perspectives and delivering simple communications
- Aware of audience needs and can tailor style accordingly
- Strong presentation skills, capable of articulating complex ideas with authority and making the case for change.
- Ability to independently build successful collaboration relationships with working leads from different business units across the Group
- Strong team player with the ability to perform under pressure
- Experience and interest in Strategy, Strategic Planning, or Strategy Development in a corporate strategy environment or a consulting firm
- Experience in commercial planning
- Understanding of the Telco or broader TMT sector
The Corporate Strategy & Development team is a central team with a remit across the whole business. Its role is to focus on the future, helping the company to identify opportunities, risks and challenges so that BT Group wins in the markets in which it operates. It provides thought leadership and solutions to enable profitable revenue growth, and shareholder return. It does this through a focus on customers and competitors, enabling it to design winning strategies for our networks, products and brands. - 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
Strategic thinking
Communication
People
Corporate Strategy and Development has a critical role to play as we continue to shape and deliver the Group's plan and strengthen the alignment of our units around a single BT Group strategy. In a rapidly changing environment, it is critical that we take an integrated approach on how we drive value from our assets and transform our business. This integrated strategy brings together commercial and business strategies, supports long-term growth and profitability.
This role is responsible for coordinating the execution of the annual strategy development process to drive strategic dialogue, enabled by strong market and competitive intelligence. It will support setting BT Group's strategic framework in close collaboration with Customer Facing Units (CFUs) and Corporate Units (CUs) across BT Group. You will have visibility across CFUs on the key strategic decisions and trade-offs that need to be made. You will be expected to understand and challenge CFU plans including business cases and capex allocations to ensure BT Group continues to be a profitable, innovative, customer focused organisation.
You will be working in a fun, agile and fast-paced environment. You will be at the heart of key decision making, working directly with BT Group's senior executives across the organisation. It's a great team and a great place to work!, 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.
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.
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.