Senior Lawyer Competition & Regulatory

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One Braham (4140), London, United Kingdom

Hybrid working – 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home

Location – London

Why this job matters

The application of competition and regulatory law is fundamental to how BT does business, influencing nearly every aspect of our operations. As a Senior Competition Lawyer at BT, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our legal strategy and ensuring compliance across a dynamic and evolving regulatory landscape.

In this role, you’ll provide expert legal advice on complex competition and regulatory matters to senior stakeholders in the UK, while also supporting BT Group’s activities in other jurisdictions. You’ll lead on delivering risk-aware, solution-focused input across a range of commercial initiatives, working collaboratively with colleagues in business, finance, strategy, regulatory affairs, and legal. You’ll also partner closely with BT’s Regulatory Affairs team and, where appropriate, lead interactions with Ofcom and other regulatory bodies, ensuring robust compliance with the Commitments between BT, Openreach, and Ofcom.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead strategic legal projects and provide expert UK and EU competition and regulatory law advice, acting as a trusted adviser to senior stakeholders across BT.
• Identify legal risks and opportunities to support BT’s strategic agenda, ensuring compliance and implementing corrective actions where needed.
• Engage with external stakeholders including Ofcom, competition authorities, and customers, and lead on contentious legal matters including litigation and appeals.
• Deliver training and develop best practice guidance on competition and regulatory law, while mentoring junior team members and managing cross-functional project teams.
• Support the Commitments Assurance Office in monitoring BT and Openreach’s adherence to regulatory commitments.
• Champion BT’s values and collaborate across the business to drive positive outcomes.

The skills you'll need

• Qualfied Solicitor with relevant PQE experience
• Deep expertise in UK and EU competition and regulatory law, with broad legal knowledge and commercial awareness.
• Significant experience in legal practice, ideally gained in law firms, in-house teams, regulatory bodies, or relevant courts.
• Proven track record in leading competition and regulatory litigation, including proceedings before UK and European authorities.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to assess complex markets and deliver creative, risk-aware legal solutions.
• Experience presenting legal issues to senior stakeholders, including at Board level.
• 15% on target bonus
• Health Care
• 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.

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