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Recruiter: Carla Ballinger

Career Grade: E

Internal Closing Date: 28/08/2023

Hybrid working, 3 days office/2 remote
If you have any questions reach out to [email protected] for a confidential chat or apply today!

Why this job matters
The Corporate Strategy and Development team has a critical role to play as we continue to shape and deliver BT’s long-term strategy, corporate development and strengthen the alignment of our units around a single strategy. In a rapidly changing environment, it is critical that we take a more integrated approach to how we drive value out of our assets and transform our business. This integrated strategy will bring together commercial and business strategies and support long term growth and profitability.
This role will focus on answering a wide range of big strategic questions to design the group’s long-term strategy as well as assessing investment opportunities such as mergers and acquisitions. The projects you will work on will need to provide an objective and independent view whilst engaging a multi-functional working team of experts across the business. You will be expected to develop clear, innovative recommendations and solid business cases for decision and implementation 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 and you will be at the centre of key decision making, working directly with BT’s senior executives with enterprise-wide accountability.

What you’ll be doing

• Contributing to designing the group’s strategy and articulating the key priorities for the group
• Contributing to resolve key strategic questions including potential partnership and M&A opportunities end to end on the workstream level.

Key tasks include:
o breaking down a key question and framing the approach to investigate
o identifying strategic options to resolve the issue
o assessing the issue through in-depth quantitative and qualitative analyses
o developing recommendations and associated investment / business cases

• Recommending solutions to some of the most material strategic questions facing BT Group
• Defining and executing M&A opportunities
• Developing new business cases across BT Group in collaboration with the business units to validate assumptions, while understanding where there will be tension and drive buy-in and collaboration with relevant business units
• Facilitating resolution development of strategic questions and ensuring engagement and ownership from key stakeholders on a working level

Strategic thinking

• Analytical and comfortable working with data sets, basic financial modelling or insights to drive recommendations and deliver results, with a challenging and fact-based approach
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to take the initiative to make change happen
• High-level understanding of the strategy consulting approach, including an understanding of unit economics and profitability

Communication

• Experience delivering high quality output in a professional environment
• Able to create inspiring and simple messages, considering different perspectives
• Able to synthesise issues and get to the “so what?”
• Strong presentation skills, capable of articulating complex ideas with authority and making the case for change

People and process

• Able to engage appropriately with a large number of fragmented stakeholders with an awareness of the different viewpoints around the business
• Able to independently build successful relationships with working teams from different business units across BT
• Strong team player with the ability to perform under pressure
• Good time management skills and ability to structure your workload to deliver to deadlines

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.
Other benefits include:

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. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘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.