Recruiter: Sowmya Reddy
Hiring Manager: Amy Hunt
Career Grade: D
The Portfolio Lead: PMO Specialist is the operational partner to Product, Engineering and Delivery leadership for an assigned portfolio. The role turns strategic priorities and roadmaps into realistic, funded and measurable delivery plans, giving leaders confidence that commitments are achievable, sustainable and focused on value.
The role connects Portfolio planning, Financial management, FinOps, Workforce and capacity, Delivery insight, Governance, Dependencies, Quality and continuous improvement. It provides a trusted view of portfolio health and supports timely, evidence-based decisions.
Although embedded within a portfolio, the role operates as part of the wider Delivery Operations and PMO community. It adopts common BT standards, tooling, data definitions and governance approaches, and contributes learning back into the community rather than creating local practices in isolation.
Portfolio planning and strategic alignment
Financial Insight, Investment Traceability and FinOps
Delivery performance, insight and forecasting
Capacity, workforce and partner planning
Risk, dependency, quality and assurance
PMO standards, governance and tooling
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.
