Corporate Strategy Senior Manager

Posting Date: 9 Apr 2025

Location: 1 Braham Street, London, United Kingdom

Salary: Attractive salary & benefits

Our hybrid working means in this role you are required to be in the office 3 days per week with the option of working from a place of your choice 2 days per week.

If you have extensive strategy experience, exceptional presentation skills, and are a strong team player who performs well under pressure, you could be perfect as our new Corporate Strategy Senior Manager, based in London.

The Corporate Strategy & Insight team is a central team with a remit across the whole business. Its role is to focus on the future, helping the company identify opportunities, risks, and challenges so that BT plc wins in the markets in which it operates. It provides thought leadership, market insight, and solutions to enable profitable revenue growth and shareholder return.

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 potential mergers and acquisitions strategies. You will be expected to develop innovative recommendations and solid business cases for decision and implementation to ensure BT continues to be a profitable, innovative, customer-focused organisation.

• Contributing to designing the group's strategy and articulating the key priorities for the group
• Taking ownership to resolve key strategic questions, including potential partnership and M&A opportunities, end-to-end at the workstream level. Key tasks include:

1. Breaking down a key question and framing the approach to investigate it
2. Identifying strategic options to resolve the issue
3. Assessing the issue through in-depth quantitative and qualitative analyses
4. Developing recommendations and associated investment/business cases

• Driving collaboration with relevant CFUs through the resolution of strategic questions, to ensure full ownership and appropriation from key stakeholders
• Identifying new opportunities for growth through external research, introducing best practices from our investors, peers, and competitors
• Developing new business cases across BT in collaboration with the CFUs to validate assumptions, while understanding where there will be tension and driving buy-in and collaboration with relevant CFUs
• Facilitating the resolution of strategic questions and ensuring engagement and ownership from key stakeholders at a working level
• Overseeing workstreams or project teams

• Extensive strategy experience either in a corporate strategy environment or a consulting firm
• Relevant industry experience (i.e., TMT) is preferred but not required; however, interest in the sector and a grasp of key trends is important
• A deep understanding and awareness of enterprise-wide dynamics and the complexities of a commercial business

• Strategic thinking
• Extensive understanding of the strategic problem solving approach, including hypothesis testing, building frameworks, and breaking down business drivers and profitability
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to define and manage requirements effectively to deliver in a timely manner
• Insights and results-driven, with a questioning and fact-based mindset, able to frame and break down complex business problems across markets and segments
• Highly analytical with experience working with complex data sets and financial modelling

• Communication:
• Exemplary communication, influencing, and leadership skills, with the gravitas and impact to develop and enable strategic relationships that add significant commercial value to our business
• Ability to create inspiring messages, considering different perspectives and delivering simple communications
• Awareness of audience needs and ability to tailor your style accordingly
• Strong presentation skills, capable of articulating complex ideas with authority and making the case for change
• Ability to synthesise issues and get to the "so what?"

• People and project management:
• Ability to independently build successful collaborative relationships with working leads from different business units across the Group
• Strong team player with the ability to perform under pressure
• Ability to help create a high-performing culture through knowledge sharing and collaboration
• Experience managing teams and directing workstreams with strong project management skills

• 15% on target bonus & additional Car Allowance
• BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It's for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
• Enhanced women's health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
• Health Care, as well as 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
• 2 weeks carer's leave
• World-class training and development opportunities
• Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.

About us

BT Group was the world's first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK's most recognised and cherished brands - BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you're a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.