Job Description

Closing Date: Thursday 1st October 2026

About the role

Join BT's Networks In-Life Partner Management team and play a key role in ensuring we get the very best value from some of our most strategic supplier relationships.

As a Partnerships Specialist, you'll work at the intersection of commercial management, supplier performance, data-led decision making and strategic partnership development. You'll help shape how BT manages major external partners, driving improvements, reducing commercial leakage and ensuring suppliers deliver the outcomes our customers and business depend upon.

This is an opportunity to work on high-profile commercial relationships, influence senior stakeholders and contribute to the management of contracts and supplier partnerships that underpin critical network services across BT.

We're looking for someone who enjoys solving complex business challenges, turning data into actionable insight and building trusted relationships both internally and externally.

What you’ll be doing

• Managing a portfolio of strategic supplier relationships and acting as a trusted commercial partner throughout the contract lifecycle.
• Driving supplier performance through effective governance, performance management and continuous improvement activities.
• Using commercial, operational and financial data to identify opportunities, risks and value-generating initiatives.
• Producing insight and recommendations that support senior decision-making and influence commercial strategy.
• Leading negotiations with suppliers to secure commercially beneficial outcomes for BT.
• Working with stakeholders across Networks, Finance, Procurement, Legal and wider BT functions to drive alignment and maximise value from third-party partnerships.
• Identifying opportunities for supplier consolidation, efficiency improvements and cost optimisation.
• Supporting strategic change initiatives that improve supplier management, contract compliance and commercial performance.
• Building strong relationships with both internal stakeholders and external partners to create long-term, mutually beneficial outcomes.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Experience managing in-life commercial relationships with external suppliers, vendors or strategic partners, including supplier performance, contractual obligations and commercial value delivery.
• Experience analysing large and complex commercial, operational and/or financial data sets to generate insight, recommendations and business decisions.
• Experience leading or supporting B2B commercial negotiations with external suppliers or partners to achieve commercial outcomes.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Experience working within telecommunications, technology, infrastructure or another complex commercial environment.
• Knowledge of supplier governance, contract lifecycle management or supplier performance management.
• Experience identifying and delivering cost optimisation, value realisation or supplier improvement initiatives.
• Experience presenting insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders and influencing decision-making.
• Experience working across multiple business functions to deliver commercial or strategic outcomes.
• Understanding of procurement, strategic sourcing, third-party management or commercial risk management.

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle.

Your core benefits include:

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family 
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off 
• Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.