Research Manager Network Programmability Expert

7 hours ago


Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom BT Group Full time
Job Title: Research Manager Network Programmability

This is a technical expert role in Research and Network Strategy where the individual will apply their key expertise within a clearly defined sphere of technical knowledge to complex business issues or opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Leading and managing one or more related research projects and activities comprising of matrixed resources both inside and outside BT, including university students and vendors.
  • Proactively leading engagement with working level stakeholders across the organisation as well as external partners as appropriate.
  • Proactive engagement with the relevant business units to downstream strategic technologies for commercial realisation.
  • Domain expert responsible for maintaining expertise in a specific technical domain.
  • Responsible for intellectual property creation, managing patent filing in their domain and supporting IPR exploitation where appropriate.
  • Accountable for defining and performing research in Intelligent Service Orchestration to deliver high impact and high value across multiple domains.
  • Responsible for authoring thought leadership, technical papers, capturing intellectual property.
  • Supervision of professionals, graduates and post graduate student placements and secondments.
  • Depending on business needs, may manage Research Specialists, Professionals or other Team members.
Requirements:
  • Technical domain expert: Deep technical or domain expertise. They continually develop their expertise in a key technical area so are recognised as a technical expert in service orchestration and automation.
  • Qualifications: Strong academic record in technology specialism with post-graduate qualification(s) (PhD or equivalent research experience).
  • Expert communicator: Regularly presents to peers and managers about their research and area of technical expertise.
  • Experienced in open innovation: Skilled in patenting, technical publications, conference presentations etc.
  • Storytelling with data: strong skills in building the case for change, drawing on data and analytical techniques where appropriate, and communicating this to business audiences.
  • Concept Evaluation: ability to spot relevant innovations, horizon scanning, determine relevance for the business, develop an effective conceptualisation and build trials to test the concept.
Benefits:
  • Competitive salary.
  • 10% on target bonus.
  • BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%.
  • 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service.
  • Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan.
  • World-class training and development opportunities.
  • Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
  • Discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages.
  • Access to 100's of retail discounts including the BT shop.
Our Leadership Standards:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.


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