BT is looking for a Project Manager to act as a servant-leader, motivating cross-functional teams to deliver capabilities for our award-winning EE TV services. In this role, you will focus on delivering great business outcomes while managing scope, cost, resources, time, and governance within our product-focused, agile 'Tribe' environment.
What You'll Do
- Deliver great business outcomes whilst managing project scope, cost, resources, time, and governance controls.
- Actively drive projects forward with a leadership mindset, can-do attitude, and role model behaviors.
- Conduct end-to-end project planning, including internal and external deliverables.
- Apply a range of methodologies, tools, and techniques to effectively deliver solutions.
- Identify opportunities to resolve risks and issues relating to delivery and any impacts on related components or teams.
- Be responsible for project governance, management of budget, risks, issues, progress updates, and change management.
- Collaborate and negotiate, interlocking priorities, solutions, and deliveries across all teams and lines of BT to produce coherent project outcomes.
- Engage stakeholders throughout, ensuring quality deliverables and driving great working relationships across project teams/squads.
- Consistently improve how we deliver by conducting regular retrospectives.
- Actively contribute towards Squad and Tribe transformation, building a culture of continuous improvement.
What We're Looking For
- Ability to provide effective leadership to the project team and take appropriate action.
- Ability to create inspiring messages, consider different perspectives, and deliver simple communications.
- Able to work with stakeholders to shape the project and proactively solve conflict situations through problem-solving, negotiation, open communication, and direct influencing.
- Ability to organize tasks in the right order to hit the right outcome at the right time.
- Excellent understanding of agile frameworks and how to define and deliver product features collaboratively to achieve business outcomes and value, with also an understanding of delivery in a waterfall environment.
- Professional experience delivering medium to large projects (<£5m) within a technology environment.
- Experience collaborating with teams across a range of functions in the business, along with internal and external suppliers and partners.
- Experience delivering projects in Agile/Waterfall/Hybrid environments.
- Experience working with a range of stakeholders, up to 'Director of' levels.
Team & Environment
You will work within a 'Tribe', a virtual team structured around products and business outcomes, specifically focused on Consumer TV Products and Services.
Benefits & Compensation
- Annual On-target bonus of 10% (subject to personal and company multipliers)
- BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
- Life Assurance
Work Mode
This is an office-based role (local-city) with locations in London and Bristol.
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.
