Consumer Value and Regulatory Partner

About The Role

Permanent Role - UK Wide

The UK has set out its ambition to be net zero by 2050 and the energy industry is responding - together we are building a cleaner, greener Britain.

Due to an internal move National Grid is looking recruit one or two new management grade role into its Regulation team.

Joining a function of around 20 people, the Consumer Value and Regulatory Support Partner will be the voice of the consumer within one or more of our project development and delivery teams, each of which is responsible for delivering a major capital project of between £100m and many £Bn's in value.

The successful delivery of the portfolio of transmission network infrastructure projects in the next few years is critical to achieving National Grid's transition to a future resilient and secure energy system towards Net Zero and the team this role works within will be key to this.

Acting as a critical friend, the Consumer Value and Regulatory Support Partner will help our project teams strike the right balance between different priorities (especially cost and time to deliver), to allow us to maximise the value we deliver for our end customers and ensure that the business is adequately funded so that we can continue to invest in the network and services.

The focus of the position is likely to be Offshore transmission projects, but the Partner role could also support Onshore transmission projects.

As part of our hybrid and flexible working approach, this permanent role offers a mix of office working and home working. Our current largest office site is in Warwick, but we would also welcome applications sited close to our project offices across the country. There may be a need for the post holder to work from our Joint Venture partner transmission operators (TOs), SSE and Scottish Power, offices in Scotland and project collaboration spaces from time to time including London and Leeds.

The reporting managers currently are based in Yorkshire and Devon.

We continue to offer hybrid working from office and home.

We are open to full time and part time applicants, as well as flexible working arrangements.

About You

What we do isn't just important - it's essential. That's why we look to recruit experts in their field. In this case, we're looking for someone who has:

• Experience that demonstrates your potential to work with Ofgem and our project teams and partner TO's to build and maintain positive relationships, demonstrate solid cases for project progress within the ASTI framework and secure timely agreement. This could be through your experience in UK regulation, developing economic and competition policy, investment planning, senior stakeholder management or similar.
• A good understanding of commercial value and an ability to rapidly understand commercial value drivers in a new context.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative personality to work within a matrixed organisation.
• Strong experience of influencing senior stakeholders and virtual teams (including teams you don't lead) to ensure they deliver business critical outcomes.
• Highly motivated and organised with a high level of attention to detail, financial acumen, and good numeracy skills.
• Results orientated, consistently managing timely delivery in a challenging environment whilst dealing with rapid change and ambiguity.
• Team working to promote team effectiveness by listening to input from team members, encouraging others and putting forward ideas which bring effective collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• An understanding of the broad principles of project and risk management.

Though not essential, an ideal candidate for the Partner role would also have:

• A knowledge and awareness of some of the value drivers for Electricity Transmission reinforcements - e.g.
  large project planning and construction drivers, transmission network cost drivers, transmission network benefits (inc. wholesale market drivers).
• Experience of working within a UK regulatory environment.

A driving licence would be beneficial but is not essential.

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