Partnerships Professional

September 4, 2024

BT

Belfast

FULL TIME

Job Req ID: 38745

Posting Date: 3 Sep 2024

Function: Business Services & Operations

Unit: Networks

Location: Riverside Tower, Belfast (N.I), United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive with great benefits

Why this role matters

Network Services needs to establish a coherent, end to end contract lifecycle management (CLM) function to bring rigor and compliance to >£500m of contract spend with the aim to reduce contract and value leakage. In order to realise this, the In-Life Partner Management team will implement and maintain a contract management process with focus on supplier performance, implementing continuous improvement across the supplier base and establish a sustainable value pipeline that delivers the high quality standards expected by our customers.

The Partnerships Professional supports partnership management initiatives and functional leadership in executing and monitoring partnership commitments.

You'll have the following responsibilities

1. Supports the coordination with key partners in ensuring all agreeable objectives shared with partners are fit-for-purpose and cost effective.
2. Supports the analysis of performance data from various sources and the creating of executive level reports.
3. Monitors KPIs that measure the performance of partner’s ensuring that any contracted services are commercially sound.
4. Supports with contract management activities throughout its lifecycle, including variations, amendments, price adjustments and management of contract change notices.
5. Supports in regular partner review meetings with the support of stakeholders with the partners account team to report and review performance.
6. Supports in the implementation of ways to improve working processes within the area of partnerships management.

You'll have the following skills and experience

Skills

Partnership management - Follows up on and maintains effective, productive, and harmonious relationships with partners
Collaboration - Works together for a common purpose to achieve business benefit.
Negotation - Reaches compromise or agreement while avoiding argument and dispute
Communication - Effectively conveying information, ideas, or emotions between individuals or groups to foster understanding and connection
Commercial Accumen Possesses knowledge of critical business concepts relevant to the business unit and demonstrates ability to use deep business knowledge to inform decision-making.
Decision Making - Gathers information, and analyses different scenarios, assesses alternative resolutions and reaches a decision.
Be agile - Demonstrates collaborative ways of working and continuous improvement.

Experience

Ability to build credible relationships underpinned by data and trust.
Collaborated with multiple stakeholders with conflicting objectives
Knowledge to interpret commercial constructs and understand their bottom and top line impact
Build insights models to allow transparency of data reporting
Used data to substantiate recommendations and influence decision making

Benefits

Competitive salary
10% on target bonus
BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan
World-class training and development opportunities
Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
Discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages
Access to 100’s of retail discounts including the BT shop

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.

About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.
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