Senior Manager, Service Operational Communications

• Job Function: Corporate and Regulatory Affairs
• Posting Start Date: 22/10/2026
• Posting End Date: 06/11/2026
• Division: UK Business
• Job Location: GBR Bristol - Assembly, GBR Darlington - Global House, GBR-Birmingham-Three Snowhill, GBR-London-BTHQ One Braham, GBR-Manchester-New Bailey

Advertised Salary: Competitive

Locations: Belfast, Bristol, Glasgow or Manchester at least 3 days a week on site.

Closing Date: 6th November

About the role

The Senior Manager, Internal Communications for Service is the strategic communications business partner to the Service and Business Operations Managing Director.

This is a high-impact role at the heart of one of BT Business's largest and most operationally complex organisations. You'll shape how thousands of colleagues understand the business strategy, connect to customer priorities and engage with the transformation of Service.

Acting as a trusted adviser to senior leaders, you'll develop compelling narratives, provide strategic communications counsel and lead communication strategies that drive understanding, engagement and performance.

Working closely with leaders across Service, HR, Transformation and the wider Business Internal Communications team, you'll champion creative, audience-led communications, using storytelling, events, digital channels and emerging technologies to create engaging colleague experiences.

You'll also lead a small communications team, building capability and delivering measurable business impact.

This is a unique opportunity to shape communications for one of the UK's largest service organisations as it continues its transformation through technology, AI and operational change.

What you’ll be doing

• Act as the lead internal communications adviser to the Service and Business Operations MD and leadership team.
• Develop and deliver the communications strategy for Service, aligned to business priorities, customer outcomes and the wider Business narrative.
• Shape compelling narratives and communication plans that support business performance, colleague engagement and transformation.
• Provide strategic communications counsel, challenge and insight to senior leaders.
• Lead communication activity across key business, people and transformation programmes.
• Build leadership communication capability through coaching and support.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of communications professionals, driving high performance and continuous improvement.
• Own the governance, planning and channel strategy for Service communications, ensuring communications are coordinated, effective and aligned to brand standards.
• Use insight, sentiment and engagement data to measure effectiveness, optimise engagement and inform decision-making.
• Essential Skills / Experience

• Significant experience leading internal communications within a large, complex organisation.
• Experience partnering senior executives and leadership teams, providing strategic communications counsel and influence.
• Outstanding storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex issues into clear, compelling communications.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management and decision-making capability, with the ability to build high-performing teams, develop capability through others, and thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment with resilience and sound judgement.
• Desirable Skills / Experience

• Excellent judgement, resilience and stakeholder management, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to connect communications to business priorities and outcomes.
• AI and Digital 1st, focussed mindset to deliver outcomes.
• Experience in Telecoms or similar regulated industry and B2B similar scaled environments.
• 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:

Company car scheme (or cash alternative)

15% on target annual bonus

Private healthcare for you and your family

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.

Join us at a pivotal moment for BT Business. We are executing a multi-year transformation to restore growth, modernise at scale and unlock new markets beyond connectivity. Our ambition is clear – return to sustainable revenue and EBITDA growth, strengthen our market position, and deliver meaningful shareholder value through disciplined execution and bold reinvention.

We are fundamentally reshaping the business – simplifying our portfolio, digitising our customer experience and building market-leading capability across cyber, AI and managed services, all powered by the UK’s leading fixed and mobile networks. This is a shift from a legacy connectivity provider to a modern, solutions-led, AI-first business that can truly differentiate in a competitive and fast-moving market.

With execution momentum building and a clear path to growth, the opportunity now is to scale what works, accelerate performance and fully realise our potential. This is about delivering against ambitious financial outcomes while transforming how we operate – creating a business that is simpler, faster, more innovative and easier to do business with.

If you want to be part of the team shaping the turnaround of a multi-billion-pound business – and building a stronger, more competitive BT for the future – this is your moment.