Regional Compliance Director

To serve as the senior compliance leader and trusted advisor to National Grid's operations within the UK, partnering with business leadership to enable the achievement of strategic objectives while maintaining the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance.

Reporting to the Group Head of Compliance, the role acts as the primary interface between Group Compliance and UK leadership, providing independent oversight, challenge and guidance on compliance matters and supporting the effective identification, assessment and management of compliance risks. The role leads the UK business compliance team and serves as a key member of the wider Group Compliance leadership structure, working closely with Legal, Risk, Internal Audit and business leaders to strengthen compliance performance, promote ethical decision-making and ensure compliance considerations are effectively integrated into business strategy, operations and transformation activities.

You’ll lead and develop the UK business compliance team and play an important role in the wider Group Compliance leadership structure. Working collaboratively across Legal, Risk, Regulatory Affairs, Internal Audit and the business, you’ll strengthen compliance performance, promote ethical decision-making and provide senior leaders with clear insight and assurance on the effectiveness of compliance risk management.

This is an opportunity to shape the compliance agenda across National Grid’s UK businesses, build trusted relationships at the highest levels and help ensure we continue to do the right thing as we deliver the energy system of the future.

• Provide strategic compliance leadership across our UK businesses, acting as a trusted advisor to Executive and senior leadership teams.
• Lead the implementation and continued embedding of the Group Compliance Programme, promoting business ownership of compliance obligations and effective controls.
• Provide oversight of the UK compliance risk landscape, identifying emerging risks and regulatory developments and ensuring significant matters are appropriately escalated and addressed.
• Champion our Code of Ethics and Speak Up programme, strengthening compliance awareness, engagement, training and ethical decision-making across the business.
• Oversee compliance monitoring, assurance, issue management and remediation, using insight and findings to drive continuous improvement.
• Support effective engagement with regulators and external stakeholders, providing compliance oversight in relation to regulatory enquiries, reviews, inspections and investigations.
• Provide leadership to the UK Ethics, Risk and Compliance Committee, ensuring senior leaders receive meaningful insight into risks, issues, investigations, regulatory developments and programme effectiveness.
• Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing UK compliance team, while contributing to the continued development of the wider Group Compliance function.

We’re looking for a highly experienced compliance leader who combines strong technical and risk expertise with the judgement, credibility and influencing skills to operate effectively with senior executives, Boards and regulators.

You’ll bring:

• Significant experience within compliance, ethics, legal, risk, audit or another relevant control function
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• Proven experience operating within a complex and highly regulated environment
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• Demonstrable experience leading compliance teams, programmes or significant compliance initiatives.
• Strong experience advising, influencing and constructively challenging Executive and senior-level stakeholders
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• Experience working with Boards, governance committees and regulatory authorities
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• Experience engaging with regulators and supporting regulatory…