About the role

Help the UK achieve Net Zero

This is the time for action – we need to move at pace and reform our energy system – to deliver energy security, tackle climate change and protect our people.

As we develop the projects that will make the energy transition happen, we’re looking for a versatile Senior Infrastructure Strategy Analyst to join the Infrastructure Strategy team within National Grid’s Strategic Infrastructure business unit.

The Strategic Infrastructure business unit is almost two years old and is the growth engine for future transmission infrastructure investment. It is currently responsible for delivering 17 projects set out in the ASTI framework, plus other new infrastructure needed to help get the UK to Net Zero by 2050.

The Infrastructure Strategy team is focussed on influencing and shaping Britain’s approach to national strategic energy​ planning and defining our early-development strategy to ensure we deliver best-in-class early project development to unlock these plans.

Within this team, the Senior Infrastructure Strategy Analyst is a key role that will see you working on a wide variety of important tasks to help shape the key strategic decisions and processes that underpin how our future investment portfolio is identified and developed.

If you want to help answer BIG questions, influence senior decision-making, enhance our external engagement and have an outsized impact on making the energy transition happen in the UK, then this is the role for you.

You’ll be welcomed into a positive, inclusive organisation that aims to become one of the most diverse, equitable and inclusive companies of the 21st century.

“There is a real sense of excitement and clarity of purpose as we move towards Net Zero. We’re using this to transform the way we’ve always done things to make the energy transition happen!” Joseph Northwood, Director of Portfolio Strategy & Development

About you

What we do isn’t just important – it’s essential. We’re looking for someone who demonstrates the following attributes:

• Motivated, engaged and ready to get stuck in, you are also solutions orientated and highly pragmatic. You are grounded by the reality of what it takes to deliver, and committed to doing the right thing to get the job done.
• You are passionate about the opportunity to influence the future energy system and contribute to the UK achieving Net Zero by 2050 and are driven to ‘find a better way’ and role model National Grid’s values
• You are comfortable working in a growing and evolving business unit and an industry experiencing significant transformation, able to adapt and navigate the natural ambiguities and uncertainties that can accompany transformational change
• You are effective at carrying out qualitative and quantitative research and translating your analysis into meaningful insights and recommendations, which inform and influence internal and external stakeholders
• You are a strategic thinker, with an ability to grasp the bigger picture while getting stuck into the detail of specific challenges or opportunities
• You have proven experience of project management activities and / or change management activities and driving successful implementation of specific workstreams or projects
• You are confident and experienced in leading discussions with audiences of differing seniority levels, and know how to successfully create the relevant materials to influence decisions.
• You have strong proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
• You have studied to undergraduate degree level
• UK Driving licence is desirable but not essential.
• Experience and understanding of any of the following areas is a plus: Energy; Infrastructure; Government/Policy; Regulation; Sustainability; Engineering; Project Management.

What you'll do

The Senior Infrastructure Strategy Analyst is an important role within the Infrastructure Strategy team at National Grid.

You will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects including but not limited to:

• Engaging with colleagues across the business to help shape our early development strategy for 'how' we should develop infrastructure to meet the system needs and ensuring that strategy aligns with other function-led or thematic strategies and plans
• Helping to shape the future strategic network planning processes and coordinating across internal and external teams to ensure the process can identify the network of the future and accelerate the delivery of critical transmission infrastructure
• Ensuring we engage effectively with key internal and external stakeholders to listen, learn, influence, inform, and align
• Conducting horizon scanning and identifying improvements to the way in which we track macro-trends that impact early project development
• Identifying and proactively addressing gaps between our current activities and our early development ambition, working with accountable owners across the business to implement change

The primary activities that we would expect you to excel at are:

• Qualitative & quantitative research and analysis to inform and support decision making
• Analysing and solving problems using appropriate strategic frameworks
• Tracking diverse macro-trends that may influence our early project development strategy and plans, providing regular insightful updates and recommendations to key internal stakeholders
• Developing structured and insightful recommendations and creating high quality communications in appropriate formats, such as word documents or slides
• Engaging with and influencing both internal and external stakeholders to help build consensus and generate buy-in for new ideas
• Overseeing workstreams and processes, including leading and facilitating meetings and workshops, coordinating and tracking actions and ensuring inputs from other stakeholders are provided in a timely manner

What you'll get

A competitive salary between £58,000 - £65,000 – dependent on capability.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to a number of flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

About us

National Grid Strategic Infrastructure has a key role to play in tackling climate change by accelerating our capacity to deliver clean electricity across the UK. We already operate the fastest decarbonising electricity grid in the world, with an ambition for zero carbon operation by 2025. And by 2035, we want to run 100% clean, green energy, all the time.

Here at National Grid, we connect homes and businesses to power, making sure supply and demand match each other. We make sure the lights are on in schools, operating theatres, and sporting arenas; we’re thousands of people working on behalf of millions of people.
Our investment in Strategic Infrastructure via the Great Grid Upgrade will mean more home grown power, greater energy security and a cleaner future.

Whatever your role, wherever you work with us, you’ll help us hit stretching targets and achieve our far-reaching goal: to secure, clean energy that supports our world far into the future. Here, you will be at the heart of energy.

More Information

This role closes on Sunday 13th at 23:59, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary.

We work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office.

We're committed to building a workforce that represents the communities we serve, and a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.
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