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Posting Date: 7 Aug 2025

Function: Legal and Governance

Location:

One Braham (4140), London, United Kingdom

Location - London - 3 days in the office/2 days working from home

This role is critical to BT Group's ability to operate confidently and compliantly across diverse markets.By providing expert competition and regulatory law advice-particularly in relation to Openreach and BT's UK operations-you help shape strategic decisions that impact the company's market position and legal standing.

Your input enables the business to pursue commercial objectives with a clear understanding of legal risk, offering solution-focused guidance that balances innovation with compliance. Partnering closely with BT's Regulatory Affairs team and engaging with regulators like Ofcom, you play a key role in influencing policy, protecting BT's interests, and ensuring alignment across jurisdictions.

• Provide expert legal advice on UK and EU competition and regulatory law, supporting BT's operations globally.
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and act as a trusted advisor to the Legal Director.
• Advise on a wide range of legal issues including investigations, market reviews, M&A, SMP regulation, procurement, and state aid.
• Lead on lower-complexity matters and support senior lawyers on high-impact cases and litigation.
• Deliver training and awareness sessions across BT Legal and business units, promoting compliance and best practice.
• Collaborate across legal, regulatory, and business teams to ensure seamless, high-quality legal support.

• Qualified Lawyer with previous experience with UK and EU competition Law
• Strong ownership mindset with a focus on delivering clear, outcome-driven legal advice.
• Excellent communication skills-able to translate complex legal concepts into plain, pragmatic language tailored to diverse stakeholders.
• Resilient and adaptable under pressure, with the ability to manage competing priorities and last-minute requests.
• Commercially aware and curious, with a proactive approach to understanding BT's products, markets, and regulatory environment.
• Skilled in identifying legal risks and proposing practical, business-aligned solutions.
• Trusted advisor with the ability to influence internal and external stakeholders, including regulators and strategic partners.
• 10% on target bonus
• From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It's for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
• Enhanced women's health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
• 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
• 2 weeks carer's leave
• World-class training and development opportunities
• Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.

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.

About us

BT Group was the world's first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK's most recognised and cherished brands - BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Over the next two years, we will complete the UK's largest and most successful digital infrastructure project - connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.

While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK's best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country's biggest infrastructure companies.

Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

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.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

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.