MARKETING & COMMERCIAL STRATEGY MANAGER

Job Req ID: 50348
Posting Date: 20 Aug 2025
Function: Strategy, Transformation & Business Intelligence
Unit: Consumer
Location:1 Braham Street, London, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive with great benefits

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL HAVE UNDER YOUR BELT

• Previous background in commercial strategy, strategy/management consultancy, corporate strategy, commercial finance, strategic FP&A or strategic product management.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills with strong commercial acumen, in a consumer/B2C environment.
• Deep self-awareness, full commitment to personal development and willingness to push yourself outside of your comfort zone.
• Comfortable with, and effective, at navigating ambiguity.
• Full end-to-end project ownership and ability to drive your own timelines.
• Ability to work at pace and deliver against tight deadlines.
• Advanced Excel skills and ability to construct complex financial models.
• Advanced PowerPoint skills and ability to prepare high-quality presentations that present data clearly, with excellent storytelling skills.
• Confidence working with senior stakeholders; an ability to challenge, successfully influence and hold others to account.Effective at managing stakeholders at all levels.

DON’T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Lead and own multiple strategy projects, taking responsibility of their end-to-end delivery, often working as part of a team with the other Marketing & Commercial Strategy Managers.
• Partner with Marketing & Commercial leadership team to define strategies and solve strategic problems.
• Work with subject matter experts to develop strategies that are informed by expert experience and well-founded logic.
• Create compelling presentations and briefing documents with clear strategic narrative.
• Conduct detailed quantitative and qualitative research and analysis.
• Use and create strategic frameworks to drive decision making.
• Present findings to and influence senior stakeholders across Consumer.
• Monitor market, competitor and industry insights to identify and share best-in-class practice and to identify opportunities/risks.

The team is responsible for:

• Defining long-term roles of our channels in distributing our products across our multiple brands.
• Leading strategy for the long-term transformation of our sales channels including our push towards Digital distribution.
• Driving decisions on major structural propositional changes, working closely with Tariffing and Pricing teams.
• Identifying and assessing new routes to market and working with the Business Development team to build out a strategic partnerships pipeline.
• Unlocking step changes in performance through our existing routes to market.
• Creating distribution strategies for new major products and propositions.
• Underpinning Consumer’s Marketing & Commercial plan by identifying, analysing, evaluating and recommending strategic opportunities as well as identifying risks.
• Communicating and sharing our overarching Marketing & Commercial strategy with key stakeholders (e.g. as part of updates to BT PLC Group Board) and the wider organisation.
• Advising and representing Marketing & Commercial on key strategic cross-functional Consumer topics, including working with the Consumer CEO Strategy team.
• Being the long-term guardians of the business, ensuring that short term commercial decisions do not undermine our overarching strategy