Strategy Manager - Corporate Strategy

Overview

This is a unique opportunity to join the Corporate Strategy team at Virgin Media O2, where you will tackle some of the most complex and impactful questions facing the business. Working across multiple functions, you’ll turn open‑ended challenges into clear strategic choices, helping shape decisions that influence the direction of the organisation.

• Own key work streams within high‑profile strategic projects, from defining the problem and building the evidence base to delivering recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Combine analytical rigor with clear storytelling, working closely with teams across the business to align thinking, manage risks and translate insights into practical action.
• Support and coach junior colleagues, contributing to a collaborative and high‑performing team environment.

• 5years' experience in corporate strategy in‑house or top‑tier strategy consulting.
• Advanced analytical toolkit: excellent Excel and financial modelling skills, comfortable building models, testing scenarios, sense‑checking outputs, and explaining the logic behind your analysis.
• Structured problem‑solving: ability to break large, ambiguous questions into logical work streams, hypotheses and analyses.
• Excellent communication and storytelling: proven ability to distil findings into clear, well‑designed slides and concise talking points for senior audiences.
• Stakeholder confidence: experience working across teams to gather inputs, align assumptions, manage risks and keep projects moving.
• Team mindset: enjoy working collaboratively, coaching junior colleagues, sharing knowledge and contributing to a supportive, high‑performing team culture.

• Exposure to telecoms, media or subscription‑based businesses.
• Experience using AI‑enabled tools to accelerate research, analysis, synthesis or content development.
• Experience with PowerBI, Tableau, Think‑Cell or other visual analytics and presentation tools.

• Bupa healthcare, wellbeing support, life cover, pension and generous holiday (including birthday off).
• Optional electric vehicle lease and Cycle2
  
  Work scheme.
• Dental insurance, neurodiversity assessments and discounts on broadband, TV and mobile.
• Access to the Virgin Family platform, the O Priority app and exclusive rewards, experiences and opportunities to attend events.

We are a flexible‑first organisation and request that everyone spend at least eight days a month connecting with each other in person through meetings, off‑sites, volunteering days, cross‑functional projects or away days. We are committed to accessibility, inclusion and equity for all and proudly state that Virgin Media O is an equal opportunities employer.