Overview

Position Title: Project Manager

Company: BT Group

Location: Sheffield, UK

Job Description:

This is a key role within Transformation that is accountable for end to end delivery of significant and strategically important initiatives providing a consistent approach, improved transparency and clear accountability for outcomes whilst championing continuous improvement to our improve speed to market, quality and predictability of our delivery.

Responsibilities:

  • Agree with individual stakeholders the appropriate prioritisation that optimises both project management and supplier resource
  • Scope and mobilise estimating costs, timescales and resource requirements for successful completion of projects
  • Support programme sponsors and product managers in building business case for projects/programmes and enabling delivery of business benefits
  • Track project delivery to time and budget and report back on progress across all levels of Plusnet, managing any risks or issues through to resolution

Requirements:

  • Stakeholder management both verbal and written to Leadership / Director level
  • Broad knowledge of technology/ media/ telecoms sector and strong competitor awareness
  • A proven history of successfully delivering complex projects across a business
  • Prince Practitioner, Membership of APM, IPM
  • Capability to cut through complexity to resolve escalated issues, anticipating problems to avoid issues
  • Relevant industry experience of end to end delivery of complex projects/programmes within a consumer product environment
  • Good influencing skills to manage and set expectations to stretching but realistic levels
  • Experience of risk management and contingency planning – in depth knowledge of both contingency planning and mitigation
  • Experience of budget control, benefits management and supplier management with excellent negotiation and contract management skills.
  • Specific experience of delivering product, technology and organisational change projects
  • Understanding of product development life cycle, product design and implementation

About BT Group

We’ve always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world’s first telecommunications company.