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Senior Manager, Data & AI, Corporate Units

Job Req ID: 33203

Posting Date: 6 Sep 2024

Function: Data & AI

Unit: Digital

Location:

1 Braham Street, London, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive plus benefits

Full time, 3 days a week together in either our London, Birmigham or Bristol Digital Hub (flexible 2 days remote wherever)

Why this job matters

Our Data and AI vision is to reinvent BT Group as the market leader in AI-powered connectivity, solutions and services, helping businesses, public sector communities and society improve the way they live and work.  We’ll do this by building foundations to strengthen our core platform, while keeping ethics and responsible delivery at the core and, by harnessing data and AI to reinvent BT Group, solve business and customer problems and drive value through innovation.

The Senior Manager for Data & AI Corporate Units defines and executes the data and AI strategy for Corporate Units, working in close collaboration with the CU CDO team and the Data and AI centres of excellence. You’ll deliver data and AI products and services that enable the unit to run optimally and realise value, in alignment with the business and Digital priorities and commitments. This includes enabling Corporate Units to transform into a data driven, AI first run business unit.

Underpinning the success of the strategy are our people, using our collective expertise in Data and AI to partner with the organization and drive a data-led culture. You will lead a dedicated Corporate Units Data & AI team which houses key capabilities including product, strategic business partnering, data analytics, business intelligence, solution design, DPN engineering and data modelling. You’ll draw on our central teams to provide domain specific expertise (e.g. data science, solution architecture, platform engineering and data management).

What you’ll be doing

• Fixate on deeply understanding the Corporate Units requirements and external market opportunities to drive growth, customer experience and efficiencies within Corporate Units through Data & AI

• Work with the team to build the overall strategy for Data & AI in the unit, interlocking with the wider pan-BT strategy.

• Be the main strategic partner and technical connection point into Data & AI for all Corporate Units data and AI requirements

• Data & AI Product ownership – accountable for the validation, build, delivery and evolution of data & AI products and use-cases through cross-functional squads

• Engineering and solution design - provide the technical capabilities to design, build and quality manage data & AI features / products / solutions / journeys that are prioritised into Data & AI led squads or into CU/CDO-led squads

• Data & AI Services - build the reporting capabilities for the business, including operational and contractual reporting, enabling scaled automation and self-serve where appropriate

• Business intelligence - provide data analysis for commercial/business insights and for Data & Ai product development

• Work across the Chief Data & AI Office to align architecture, strategy, plans and investment with business needs.

• Alignment of annual plan and capex plan to the strategic roadmap, prioritising demand and recommendation of investment decisions to achieve commercial outcomes and create business value.

• Interlock with the CDO team and central Data & AI teams on delivery to ensure clear ownership and effective ways of working across complex, cross-functional deliverables.

• Run the Corporate Units data council, in alignment with centrally issued standards, ensuring best-practice data management is adopted within the business

• Drive adoption of Data and AI initiatives and innovation into Corporate Units, working with 3rd parties as appropriate to drive speed and scale.

The skills you will need to suceed

• Expert knowledge in data engineering, data platforms, data architecture, solution design and engineering and data management principles.

• Strong understanding of Product delivery, AI and advanced analytics

• Strategic, commercial focus - evaluating risks, benefits and returns for data and AI solutions and ensuring they’re clearly understood by key decision makers.

• Possesses strong influencing skills, including the ability to handle external and internal challenges and drive desired outcomes.

• Strong stakeholder management, effectively building trust, collaborating with and influencing disparate groups across the company

• Credibility and gravitas to operate at Board level within BT.

• Excellent communication and data presentation skills, with the ability to engage with both technical and non-technical audiences and explain the business value of a given project.

• Inspiring, results-driven people leader that can lead teams and virtual teams to deliver their vision and create an environment of learning and continuous improvement

• Flexible and agile work skills, comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment

• Analytical and creative with a problem solving mindset.

Benefits

Annual On target bonus 15% (personal and company multipliers)

Car allowance - worth £5500 a year, can be taken as cash)

Private healthcare for you and your family

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

25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service with buy holiday option

Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community

Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV’