Specialised Estate Manager - Strategy & Exchange Uplift
Job Req ID: 51624
Posting Date: 3 Oct 2025
Function: Property
Unit: Finance & Business Services
Location:
New Bailey, Manchester, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive with great benefits
Why this job matters
Corporate Units play an integral role in setting and delivering our strategy and partnering with our business units in their plans for growth. We shape and steer the direction of the business by managing our people, finances, suppliers, shared services and buildings. And if that's not enough, we also oversee our legal, regulatory and compliance obligations too.
A career in the Corporate Units is close to the strategic action and never dull. We exist as four centralised teams – Finance and Business Services, Human Resources, Legal, Company Secretary and Regulatory Affairs and Corporate Affairs.
This is an exciting role working across both the huge BT estate portfolio and at the centre of the BT property team. The role will be at the forefront of setting the estate strategy for BT's operational buildings and will work with stakeholders across BT to determine building uplift requirements for the retained exchange estate.
What you'll be doing
* Specialised estate strategy lead (excl. engineering centres) working with key Networks. Openreach and BT International stakeholders to identify rationalisation and consolidation opportunities
* Specialised estate lease event management ensuring closure opportunities taken and/or lease security of tenure maintained reducing service risk
* Maintaining/communicating specialised estate strategy documentation supporting P&FS's building (IIP) investment decision making
* Optimising and integration of facilities reprovision at closing Simpler Networks exchanges & engineering centres into enduring exchanges
* Requirements definition for exchange uplift providing input/insight into the uplift programme to optimise spend
* Lead on exchange uplift stakeholder engagement with Networks, Openreach and BT Business to agree uplift requirements
You'll have the following skills and experience
* Relationship management: strong relationship management skills. To build a network of stakeholders both within the property team and wider across BT Group
* Project management: strong programme delivery management skills. Able to pull out key deliverables/ milestones, interdependencies & to track, report and communicate jeopardy to business audiences. Ideally APM qualified or working towards
* Financial and budgetary planning: preparation, tracking and reporting of programme budgets for a portfolio of projects
* Real Estate: (desirable) experience gained or member of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Benefits
* Annual On target bonus 10% (personal and company multipliers)
* BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
* Life Assurance
* Direct share scheme
* Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest 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 the NOW Entertainment membership
* Great support for working parents including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave
* Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
* 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
* Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community
* Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as 'My EV'