Corporate Units

Corporate Units

Corporate Units is the backbone of BT

We play an integral role in setting and delivering our strategy and partnering with our business units in their plans for growth. We shape and steer the direction of the business by managing our people, finances, suppliers, shared services and buildings. And if that’s not enough, we also oversee our legal, regulatory and compliance obligations too. A career in the Corporate Unit is close to the strategic action and never dull.

We exist as six centralised teams – Finance & Business Services, Strategy & Transformation, Human Resources, Regulatory Affairs, Legal & Company Secretary, and Corporate Affairs. Find out more about each below.

Simon Lowth

BT Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Finance & Business Services

We’re responsible for BT’s Group finances and business operations, including risk management, buildings & facilities, purchasing & suppliers, and shared services, providing a range of diverse services to both internal and external customers globally. Our teams are central to everything that BT wants to achieve. By enhancing our profitability and identifying smarter ways of working, at risk appetite, we enable the bold investment opportunities needed to help BT grow.

Group Business Services
Group Finance
Group Tax, Treasury & Insurance
Corporate Finance & M&A
Investor Relations
Risk, Compliance & Assurance
Procurement and Supply Chain
Property & Facilities Services

Strategy & Transformation

We predict, advise, and lead on the big moves that’ll transform our company. We do this by helping to identify opportunities, and challenges, so that we lead in the markets in which we operate. Our teams provide thought leadership and design innovative strategies for our networks, products, and brands. To put it simply, we help shape the future of BT.

Business Transformation
Corporate Strategy
Network Strategy
Insights
Strategic Partnerships
Data and AI Solutions

Human Resources

We play a critical role in transforming BT to make sure we’re in the best shape, supporting colleagues to deliver brilliant services and products for our customers. Our Corporate Units HR business partners work with business leaders and their teams to deliver people strategies to create an organisation with the right skill-sets and culture. Whilst our specialist centres of expertise, partner to build fit for purpose HR solutions for the whole of BT. Our HR services teams are essential to all our colleagues across our business and manage the HR systems and processes across the employee life cycle.

Corporate Units HR Business Partners
Organisation Effectiveness
Colleague Experience
Talent Acquisition
Leadership, Learning, Talent & Diversity
Reward
Employee Relations
Health, Safety & Wellbeing

Cathryn Ross

BT Group Director of Regulatory Affairs

Regulatory Affairs

A career in regulatory affairs means helping to shape the regulatory landscape in the UK and across the globe to enable BT to deliver sustainable value growth. We play a key role in helping the different parts of BT to navigate this.

We want to build trust in our business, and we aim to do this in a straightforward, collaborative and consistent way. Around forty people work in regulatory affairs, and our role is diverse – focussing not only on understanding and providing arguments based on law, and economics and risk management, but also on building relationships and influencing. And because of this, a role with us provides a fantastic opportunity to widen and deepen a variety of skill sets.

Working in regulatory affairs gives you the opportunity to work strategically across all aspects of BT's business and with external stakeholders in regulatory bodies, across government and beyond. It provides a great opportunity for someone looking to widen their experience and network.

Regulatory Affairs
Economics

Sabine Chalmers

BT Group General Counsel

Legal & Company Secretary

The Legal & Co Sec team are a diverse, creative and energetic group of colleagues based all over the world. The team work in a fast-paced environment looking for legal solutions for all parts of BT, be it in the consumer space, enterprise or corporate world. They’re always looking for better ways to support the business, streamline how we work and give an exceptional service to the business.

Have a look at what we do in the following spaces:

General Counsel (for our customer facing units)
Company Secretariat & Governance
Litigation
Competition Law & Regulatory Law
Privacy, Security & Internet

Ed Petter

BT Group Director of Corporate Affairs

Corporate Affairs

Our role in corporate aﬀairs is to build, and help others to build, the reputations that BT needs to succeed in the short and long term. It's an important job that puts us at the heart of the company's future. If you’re interested in a career in corporate affairs then there are a wide range of roles and activities carried out. You might be doing media relations, internal communications, digital impact and sustainability or public affairs.