Business Manager - 12 Month FTC

This role is a 12-month FTC opportunity.

We are seeking a proactive Business Manager to support our Delivery Director. This role is integral in ensuring leadership effectiveness, driving strategic priorities, and influencing decision-making at the highest levels. You will be responsible for providing critical insights, managing key initiatives, and ensuring alignment across business functions in a fast-paced and evolving environment. Collaborating with senior leaders, you will build impactful documentation for executive and board-level discussions, coordinate planning, and contribute significantly to crafting the function's direction.

As a trusted partner to the leadership team, you will have significant involvement in strategic and operational issues, ensuring the right people and information are in place to drive informed decisions. You will work alongside finance teams on budget planning, collaborate with communications teams to shape executive messaging, and ensure consistency in priorities across the wider organisation. Additionally, you will manage key projects, track actions from critical meetings, and provide challenge and guidance on strategic issues. If you are a highly organised, influential, and solutions-driven professional with the ability to navigate complex challenges, this is a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact within Virgin Media O2.

The UK’s fastest broadband network. The nation’s best-loved mobile brand. And, one of the UK's biggest companies too.

Diverse, high performing teams - jam packed with serious talent. Together, we offer the UK more choice and better value, through our boundary-pushing, customer-championing values and ambitions.

Together, we are Virgin Media O2, and we can't wait to see what you can do.

Accessible, inclusive and equitable for all

Virgin Media O2 is an equal opportunities employer and we're working hard to remove bias and barriers for our people and candidates. So, we build equity and inclusion into everything we do, from the policies we craft to the relationships we shape. We support and encourage you to be your authentic self throughout your application journey with us.

In order to be considered, you must have the following experience;

• Strong leadership presence, able to represent the N2 leader in an exceptional way, aligned to VMO2's values
• Experience in  understanding, analysing and coordinating complex strategic and operational programs, translating this to the rest of an organisation
• Exceptional relationship Skills – works collaboratively with key interfaces and stakeholders at all levels both internally and externally
• Demonstrated ability to create and present key documents and presentation decks suitable for C-suite level meetings
• Curious both intellectually and behaviourally
• Exceptional influencing skills at all levels of the organisation
• Strong judgment, decision making, time management and prioritisation
• Strong numeracy skills (in order to support work on Function’s budget)
• The ability to maintain confidentiality and discretion at all times
• Creative and collaborative approach to complex problem solving

We'd also love you to bring;

• Experience within the Telco industry
• Ability to coordinate strategic initiatives
• Understanding of business financials and how a P&L works
• Understanding of corporate governance

Our goal is to celebrate our people, their lives and everything in-between. We aim to create a culture that empowers everyone to bring the best versions of themselves to work each and every day. We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a brighter world.

Working at Virgin Media O2, you get a bumper reward package bursting with benefits, and loads of extras you can add if you’d like to. These are designed to support both you and your loved ones, making sure that you’re covered no matter what life throws your way.

If we feel like a place where you can belong, we'd love to learn more about you as a person and your experience to date. Once you've submitted an application the next steps of the process, if successful, are likely to include a call from one of our Talent Acquisition Partners.

When you apply, you'll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we'll be sure to discuss it with you.

Please note: Applications will be reviewed, and interviews conducted throughout the duration of this advert, therefore we may bring the closing date forward. We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as possible. If you’re offered a job with us, it will be conditional, based on the passing of background checks. All roles require a criminal record check and some roles need a financial probity check. Your recruiter can provide you with more information if needed.

Thanks for your patience and for showing an interest in joining the Virgin Media O2 family.