Location: London

Hybrid working, 3 days office/2 days remote

About EE

We’re EE. We are the biggest mobile and broadband operator in the UK and we have a relationship in every second household in the country. But we’re for everyone, on any network – serving up new tech, new services, and heaps of inspiration for every aspect of your connected life.

We’ve been awarded the UK’s best network for the last 10 years. It’s central to our vision – to be the most personal customer-focused technology company in the UK.

That means earning a place on customers’ home screens by offering them more than ever before, whether that’s helping their home run smarter with EE Home, levelling up their play with EE Game, helping them work on their terms with EE Work, or even unleashing their kids’ learning with EE Learn. 

We’re also part of BT Group, which we’re even bigger than you might think. Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding. 

Why this job matters

In Partnerships, we build best-in-class partnerships with the best companies and brands in the world, creating opportunities to deliver unique and compelling customer experiences for everyone in the UK, and delivering value for our business. 

Successful partnerships are vital to our bold vision for New EE – unlocking opportunities to lead in new categories.  As part of the New EE strategy we are pushing into a number of New Markets, and continually exploring new ways to innovate and bring amazing opportunities to help us ‘Win the household’.

We have a continual stream of approaches for new business, alongside specific requirements to explore with the aim of bringing the best opportunities to EE.  The New Partnerships Development Manager needs to clearly understand the EE strategy, growth ambitions, business priorities and strategy to ensure opportunities with new partners can be uncovered, assessed and launched into EE.  A keen a competent technologist the incumbent needs not only to understand how things work but also how the future is unfolding and importantly what this means to EE and our customers.

Working within this role, you will have significant impact through being responsible for identifying new ideas, distilling them into clear recommendations for the business to evaluate and swiftly onboarding new partners as agreed

What you’ll be doing

1. Review incoming ideas via Partnerships Portal or other as required
2. Actively seek new opportunities across the industry for new partnerships either responding to specific business briefs or uncovering new ideas to bring to the business that underpin business strategy
3. High level commercial evaluations and business casing to underpin initial recommendations
4. Showcase the EE strategy to ensure the selected partners understand the scope of opportunity and prioritise EE as required
5. Contracting of new partners and initial commercial negotiations
6. Partner relations for the introduction and onboarding of new partners
7. Hand over process and plans to wider teams once launched

The skills and experience you will have under your belt

1. Entrepreneurial spirit
2. Strong pitching skills
3. Drive to seek out new opportunities 
4. Experience in building commercial models and business casing with strong data analysis:  market intelligence & research
5. Negotiating skills
6. Decision making and ability to distil complex opportunities.
7. Strong presentation skills to showcase high level concepts.
8. Influencing skills
9. Able to deal with ambiguity, identify resources and support to implement and determine pragmatic solutions.
10. Broad grasp of technology and a customer focussed understanding of applications

What's in it for you? What are the benefits?

 BT, we entertain, educate and empower millions of people every single day. We’re a brand built on connecting people – whether that’s friends, family, businesses or communities. Working here, you’ll receive an attractive salary and a range of competitive benefits, but – more than that – you’ll be joining an ambitious organisation with a culture of togetherness, collaboration and inclusivity, that takes a genuine and proactive interest in your progress and development. 

•    Competitive salary
•    25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
•    10% on target performance bonus
•    Life Assurance
•    Pension scheme if you pay in 5% BT will pay in an additional 10%
•    Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
•    50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
•    Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
•    BT TV, including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids
•    50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans
•    World class training and development opportunities
•    Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community

BT is an equal opportunities employer. We’re working hard to create an inclusive working environment, where people from all backgrounds can succeed. We want to make sure your recruitment experience is the best it can be – so, if you’re selected for an interview, please let us know if there’s any adjustments we can make that would be helpful for you.

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. 

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development. 

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

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.