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Project Manager London, England

BT Group

Full Time London, England 42500 - 66000 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Project Manager - Customer Migrations

Job Req ID: 17765

Posting Date: 29 Jul 2023

Function: Agile Capability

Location: 1 Braham Street, London, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive with great benefits

Why this job matters

Working in a highly complex, fast-paced environment, the Project Manager is responsible for creating and leading an integrated team to deliver end-to-end projects ensuring they have a valid business benefit, deliver on time, within budget and to agreed quality criteria from conception through to market, launch and transition into operations. You will manage a virtual team of up to 100 people, including many 3rd party Suppliers, providing strong leadership across several Projects, depending on size and complexity. This role is critical to delivering network service migration to millions across the UK and billions globally. Network service migrations - is all about the seamless migration of business customers to our new network; intricate planning and understanding of products and services are vital. You'll be leading the Networks team and working with a counterpart in Business who will support you in understanding the customer-specific requirements.

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 projects with dependencies and dependant projects, securing prioritisation and alignment as required.
Driving – E2E ownership of the projects. 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 the Director level, visibly owning delivery, change and engagement for the project.

The skills and experience you'll have

Experience in Network service migration
Leadership Skills
Communication Skills - Ability to lead communication with stakeholders and work to drive robust, open and sustained communication channels both within the project team and with the wider stakeholder community. Up to ‘Director level'.
Negotiation skills
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.
Industry recognised Project Management Qualification.
Good knowledge of and experience with Telecom products and services.
Professional experience delivering medium to large projects (<£5m) within an appropriate governance process (Gated waterfall, Agile, Hybrid).
Excellent track record in project delivery within a fast-paced, Technology environment in the telecoms and media business using a range of internal and external suppliers to deliver.
Experience working with a range of stakeholders, up to ‘Director levels

About us

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.

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