Security Bid Project Professional

About BT

 

We’ve always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world’s first telecommunications company. At our heart we’re a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.

With customers in 180 countries, we're a leading global business communications provider. We have 17,000 people serving multinational companies, providing the services they need to create the digital transformation of their businesses. Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.

Thanks to our portfolio strategy, the Cloud of Clouds, we provide high-performance, integrated and secure network and IT infrastructure services to global customers. It means our customers can connect easily and securely to the applications and data they need, wherever they are in the world. Our Digital GS strategy we are moving to will help create a better future for GS and our people. With a business focused around a global customer base and a portfolio of scalable repeatable solutions, supported by outstanding customer service and market-leading security.

To deliver it we need to focus where we can be brilliant, be more straightforward to do business with and meet customer needs with greater agility. This will help us to become a more profitable, predictable and customer-focused business.

Today in this fast changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulation and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we’ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that’s you and what you’re looking for, we’d love you to be part of our future.

Responsibility of the role holder

 

The Security Bid Project Professional is responsible for the delivery of end-to-end bespoke customer facing Security projects.  Customers are major BT accounts in top 800 Global or UK Enterprise.  Key stakeholders are external customers at CISO level, BT Security providers, Vendors, Global Services and Enterprise CFU.  The Security Project Professional will deliver at the pinnacle of Project Management excellence.  They will directly impact the BT Net Promoter Score (NPS) and BT commercial results.

What you will be doing

 

• Deliver the end-to-end bespoke customer facing Security projects, focusing on time, cost and quality.
• Deliver significant delivery revenues and gross margin contributions to the business.
• Matrix manage other delivery focused operational and technical resources tasked with specific customer delivery.
• Define the governance model as part of the project initiation and ensures that it’s maintained throughout the lifecycle of the project.
• Responsible for project cost management and working with Security Delivery Leads to submit BRF (Business Revenue Forecast) financials, to pay for project and technical resources.
• Manage both technical and commercial changes which impact the projects.
• Ensure that Issue/Risk management and associated mitigation is managed effectively throughout the wider matrix team
• Develop and maintain excellent relationships with key external and internal stakeholders and suppliers to drive successful project delivery and customer satisfaction
• Maintain personal knowledge and skills both in Project Management and the evolving Security landscape
• Input shared project delivery learning back into the Security community to ensure organisational learning culture
• Coach and mentor more junior project managers to accelerate their learning journey
• Support Graduate and Apprentice events and assessment centres promoting an inclusive and caring culture

Skills required for the job

 

• Best Practice Project Management Experience and Accreditations.
• Good understanding of Security solutions and products and the benefits.
• Security principles knowledge and experience.
• Strong governance knowledge; putting in place the appropriate frameworks, tracking and reporting.
• Communication and presentation skills.
• Senior Stakeholder Management both externally with customers and internally with B