It matters to us that Team O2 is as diverse as the communities we serve. 

We’re aware that we need more diversity in our senior leadership roles, so we welcome and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. 

Whoever you are, O2 has a place for you. 

Come join us.

So where does this role sit?

This is a leadership role within the Central Strategy Team of Virgin Media O2, reporting into the Director of Strategy. In this role you will have a specific focus on growth and value creation through new market opportunities, new business models, strategic partnerships, Mergers & Acquistions (M&A), restructuring and asset monetisation options.

You will identify and evaluate new opportunities and threats for the business, and work with key partners and counterparties to drive target opportunities to closure.  

What we need from you: 

• Significant Corporate development experience in relevant to tier 1 global TMT business, evidencing strong value creation  
• Exceptional understanding of the UK and relevant foreign TMT markets evolution, and encouraged strategies of major market players and their owners  
• Experience of driving corporate development initiatives to closure  
• Effective & credible communicator, with influence at all levels including EC members, shareholders, external influencers and counterparties  
• Innovator, able to think laterally, and identify creative opportunities for value creation  
• Excellent team-working and interpersonal skills, building positive relationships and forming effective project teams across the business and external parties  
• Strong commercial acumen, backed up by proven negotiating skills  
• High impact self-starting individual, inventive and solution-driven, able to manage and successfully deliver multiple projects in parallel  

Virgin Media Level 6 / O2 Grade PCGS

Location: Slough/London with some flex

Our mission is to become the most recommended brand, by our people and our customers. A massive part of that journey is about how we ensure that our brilliant people have a working environment in which they can truly belong and thrive.  

For us, it's critical that every single person can bring, and be, their whole selves at work, and we're working hard every day to achieve this. We value the differences that people bring, and we believe those differences make us all, and our business, stronger together. 

We’ll be sending you emails about the status of your application. To make sure you receive these, please add @O2.com and @telefonica.com to your Safe Senders list.

We’re looking to pay a great compensation package (depending on experience) for this position. We also offer plenty of extras to sweeten the deal, which could include things like bonuses, life assurance cover, health care and lots of flexible benefits.  

Also, every employee has their personal development supported with a LinkedIn learning account; plus other role specific learning available through our award-winning digital learning platform - O2 Campus. 

We also believe a great work-life balance is important, so we’re open to considering flexible working arrangements. Like to know more, feel free to raise it.  

Join us and we’ll encourage you to be bold every day. So take a deep breath, your career is about to go to exciting new places. 

If you have any questions around the role then please email ResourceTUK@o2.com who will be happy to help.