Why this job matters
As a Strategy & Planning Manager in BT Wholesale, you’ll play a key part in helping us make good decisions and deliver on our plans. You’ll work closely with senior leaders, support major planning cycles, and help analyse trends that influence our strategy.
The Wholesale Sales function partners with and delivers capability to our biggest customers (across the UK and beyond), who in turn deliver communication services to their customers. In Wholesale, we leverage BT’s assets, diversity and sales excellence to provide these customers with best‑in‑class, innovative technology that empowers their customers’ future.
You’ll be someone who enjoys working with data, spotting what matters, and sharing insights in a clear and engaging way. Importantly, you have a talent for story‑telling with data, which will help you build the case for change within the business as you draw on data and analytical techniques. You’ll also work with teams across the business — Product, Digital, Customer Experience and more — to make sure everyone is aligned and moving in the same direction.
A strong understanding of key enablers of commercial and operational planning will help you to make key contributions to our Wholesale strategy including assisting with strategic asks from the Business Leadership Team. This means you’ll be a highly visible and trusted advisor to senior stakeholders — including the Managing Director of Wholesale — performing commercial deep dives for monthly unit reviews, challenging where appropriate and bringing to light new approaches & ways of thinking.
What you’ll be doing
* Bring together the monthly Business Unit Review and Medium‑Term Plan for Wholesale
* Share recommendations with senior leaders, including the Wholesale MD
* Track key actions and align with senior stakeholders
* Report on our key strategic KPIs
* Work closely with customer, product and trading teams to join up plans
* Help shape responses to strategic questions, competitor activity and market changes
* Dig into data to recommend commercial interventions and support gap‑closure plans
Experience Required
* Understanding of commercial & financial performance and what drives results
* Working analytically with data and turning insights into clear stories
* Confident working with senior stakeholders, keeping them aligned with key actions, presenting data/insight and telling the story behind it
* Effective organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities
* A strategic, curious mindset. Identify enablers for successful delivery
* Effective communication and simplify complex information
* Work well in virtual or cross‑functional teams
Benefits
* Annual on target bonus up to 10%
* BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
* 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays with the option to buy up to one week’s work of your contracted hours (increases with service)
* 2 weeks carer’s leave
* 18 weeks at full pay, eight weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate – for all parents, no matter how your family is made up
* Enhanced women’s health support: help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more
* Life Assurance (4× life cover pay)
* Exclusive colleague discounts on BT broadband packages
* 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans
* My Discounts gives colleagues access to unbeatable savings on everyday purchases at hundreds of retailers
* Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and NOW Entertainment membership
* Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc
* Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community
* Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement
* 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
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.
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