What you’ll be doing
1. Lead strategic legal projects and provide expert UK and EU competition and regulatory law advice, acting as a trusted adviser to senior stakeholders across BT.
2. Identify legal risks and opportunities to support BT’s strategic agenda, ensuring compliance and implementing corrective actions where needed.
3. Engage with external stakeholders including Ofcom, competition authorities, and customers, and lead on contentious legal matters including litigation and appeals.
4. Deliver training and develop best practice guidance on competition and regulatory law, while mentoring junior team members and managing cross-functional project teams.
5. Support the Commitments Assurance Office in monitoring BT and Openreach’s adherence to regulatory commitments.
6. Champion BT’s values and collaborate across the business to drive positive outcomes.
The skills you'll need
7. Qualfied Solicitor with relevant PQE experience
8. Deep expertise in UK and EU competition and regulatory law, with broad legal knowledge and commercial awareness.
9. Significant experience in legal practice, ideally gained in law firms, in-house teams, regulatory bodies, or relevant courts.
10. Proven track record in leading competition and regulatory litigation, including proceedings before UK and European authorities.
11. Strong commercial acumen with the ability to assess complex markets and deliver creative, risk-aware legal solutions.
12. Experience presenting legal issues to senior stakeholders, including at Board level.
Benefits
13. 15% on target bonus
14. Health Care
15. Car Allowance
16. BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
17. 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.
18. 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
19. 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
20. 2 weeks carer’s leave
21. World-class training and development opportunities
22. Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
Our leadership standards
Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.
Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.
Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.