Project Manager Birmingham, England
Job description
Project Manager - Mobile Network Security
Our Technology Delivery Team are the centre of expertise for all strategic programme and project delivery across Technology, supporting Customer Mobile, Mobile Network & Security, and 5G & Group functions.
We are recruiting a Technical Project Manager to work in a highly complex, fast-paced environment, responsible for creating and leading an integrated team to deliver end-to-end projects. You will need to ensure that the projects have a good business benefit, are delivered on time, within budget and to agreed quality criteria from conception through to market launch and transition into operations.
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. This role offers an opportunity for hybrid working model (3 days in any of our Birmingham, London, and Bristol offices, and 2 days wherever you like).
- Managing the technical delivery of complex projects and delivering innovative products, regularly first to market.
- Working across world-leading brands BT, EE, and PlusNet
- Managing virtual teams of <100 and working with external partners and suppliers to deliver against business objectives.
- E2E planning of projects, including resources, negotiating, and securing resources as required.
- E2E ownership of the project, ensuring delivery to time, budget and quality as expected.
- Responsible for project governance, <£5m budget management, risk, issue and change management for the entire project.
- Providing reporting to time and standard as directed by PMO.
- Collaborating across all design and delivery partners to produce coherent project outcomes.
- Working across the stakeholder group whilst influencing up to the Director level.
- Visibly owning delivery and driving engagement for the project.
- Professional experience delivering medium to large projects within a Gated Project Governance process.
- Ability to provide effective leadership and project planning to project teams.
- Experience communicating with stakeholders up to the Director level, driving robust, open and sustained communication channels within the project team and with the broader stakeholder community.
- Ability to work with stakeholders to shape the project and proactively solve conflict situations through problem-solving, negotiation, open communication, and direct influencing.
- Experience in proactively forecasting and managing project costs to forecasts, both Opex and Capex.
- Excellent track record in project delivery within a fast-paced, Technology environment in the telecoms business using a range of internal and external suppliers to deliver.
- Good knowledge of and experience with Mobile products and services.
- Industry recognised Project Management Qualification.
- Competitive salary
- 10% on target bonus
- BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
- 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
- Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan
- World-class training and development opportunities
- Discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages
- Access to 100’s of retail discounts including the BT shop
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.
