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Senior Manager London, England

Full Time London, England 62505 - 92000 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Senior Manager, Portfolio Management, Media & Broadcast

Job Req ID: 21289

Posting Date: 11 Aug 2023

Function: TV & Media

Location: BT Tower, London, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive with great benefits

Why this role matters

The Senior Manager will excel at team leadership and demonstrate refined leadership capabilities. They will provide guidance, mentorship, and coaching to a team comprising up to 20 Project/Programme Managers, as well as oversee a matrix team that can include up to 200 members, including multiple third-party suppliers.

This role oversees a critical delivery portfolio, focusing on the delivery of critical programmes in the Global Networking and Media & Broadcast industry for BT Business.

In the capacity of a Senior Manager, this individual will shoulder the responsibility of defining and delivering critical outcomes. This includes managing initiatives with an in-year program/portfolio value of up to £50 million in development or up to £100 million in Capex.

This role is characterized by regular visibility to the CEO, underscoring its significance, and entails the expectation of providing periodic reports to senior management levels. It represents an opportunity to exhibit strong leadership skills while maintaining a professional demeanor.

Why this team?
By joining this delivery team, you'll be part of an inspiring journey that offers career growth, leadership development, impactful collaborations, and the chance to shape the future of the Telecom industry.

This role is based in London.

What you’ll be doing

Inspiring - coaching a team (direct or matrix) of brilliant people to deliver a wide range of innovative and market leading Telecom products and services.
Leading – Mobilising and coordinating large virtual teams (Upto 200), often working with external partners and suppliers, to deliver against business objectives.
Influencing - Using domain and industry experience to positively affect programme/portfolio strategy and delivery
Planning - Ensuring that the programme/portfolio is appropriately scaled and resourced to deliver the agreed outcomes.
Negotiating - Interlocking scope and phasing between projects, programmes and sponsors to deliver outcomes against agreed business demand.
Driving - Making delivery and prioritisation decisions on a daily basis to manage level of risk. Measured on successful delivery against programme/portfolio outcomes, primarily anchored around time, cost and quality.
Governing – responsible for all programme/portfolio governance, including financial, budget management (for upto £100m annual budget) and financial risk management across the programme/portfolio.
Reporting – responsible for managing delivery risk across the programme/portfolio of work, providing valuable management reporting across the entire stakeholder base.
Collaborating – working across multiple teams and functions within and outwith the company, fostering relations that deliver cohesive, underpinned deliveries.
Communicating – working with CTIO (where appropriate) and directly with the Customer Facing Units (CFU) to set and manage expectations and become a trusted delivery partner.
Innovating and transforming – continually identifying opportunities to improve ways of working and delivery methodologies.

You'll have the following skills and experience

We are looking for someone with a very strong track record of major programme delivery – very experienced, ideally working at Programme Director level.
In addition you will be used to working in mixed Project Management methodologies (agile, waterfall etc)and with broadcast/networking experience.

Skills

Industry recognised Project Management Qualification.
Broad knowledge of and significant experience with Telecom products and services.
Proven stakeholder management skills in a challenging and political environment.
Excellent communication skills, comfortable with presenting at MD level.
Excellence in shaping and delivering programme/portfolio strategy to meet unit and company ambitions.
Ability to think beyond existing solutions, to challenge assumptions and existing beliefs.

Experience

Extensive experience in managing large, high risk/complexity programmes/portfolios to deliver market leading Telecom products and services.
Proven delivery expertise in Network delivery and/or Broadcasting.
Experience in leading medium-large (matrix and direct) teams in a large organisation
Significant leadership experience and management of annual budget upto £100m.
Extensive stakeholder experience across the business, with regular engagement upto and including CEO.

Benefits

Competitive salary
25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
15% on target bonus
Company car cash allowance
Life Assurance
Pension scheme
Private Medical cover
Share save scheme
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
30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively
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.

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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