Energy Security Strategy Manager

National Gas is securing Britain’s energy. We are responsible for transporting gas to power stations, major industries, storage facilities, and more than half a million businesses and 24 million homes through nearly 5,000 miles of pipes across Britain. National Gas is also proud to lead the way in transforming the energy network for a clean energy future.

Energy security has never been more important, morevisibleor more central to the national conversation. As an import dependent country,ourability to securegasmolecules whenand wherethey’reneeded is critical tomaintaininga resilient energy system. With the continued decline in North Sea production and a rapidly evolving supplyanddemand landscape, it is essential that we work closely with government and industry to shape the energy market frameworksrequiredfor the future.

Gas will remain a vital, flexible energy source,supporting renewable intermittency and underpinning system reliability as the UK transitions toward alower‑carboneconomy.

This is an exciting and high impact role, reporting directly to the Energy Systems & Resilience Director and forming part of the wider senior leadership team. The role will lead both short and longterm work streams focused on molecular security, ensuring strong alignment and coordination across the organisation and with external stakeholders in a rapidly evolving landscape. You willbe responsible for shaping and driving the discussion on future gas market frameworks,and lead government consultation responses on this topic.

As the organisational lead for this area, you will manage the interface between the Executive and the Board, and represent the organisation at all levels across external forums on this topic.

Join us, and help be the energy behind the change.

• Lead thecross-businesscoordination response toDESNZ’sGas In Transition publications, ensuring key overarching themes areembedded,and relevant strategic company ambitions are reflected.
• Provide leadership to the Energy Security Strategy team, building a culture of high performance and setting clear objectives and expectations.
• Lead the external engagements with Ofgem and DESNZ relating to market energy security at all levels of their organisations.
• Preparation of Executive and Board level materials, presenting with confidence and impact.
• Work closely with Corporate Affairs ensuring external messaging is consistent with policy objectives, and tone is aligned.
• Develop options to enhance the emergency tool provision,identifyingareas for improvement or development, and leading implementation with industry.
• Liaise closely with Energy System Resilience toidentifyrelevant market-based actions (e.g. from National Power Outage workstream), formulateappropriate responsesand represent market energy security at relevant industry forums.
• Develop and deliver the Demand Side Response (DSR) strategy, including the 26/27 approach and delivery of the engagement strategy. Produce a recommendation forfuture, andgaining regulatory sign-off ofthe approach.
• Represent National Gas Transmission externally at relevant energy security forums, ensuring gas representation in whole energy conversations anddisseminatingrelevant information internally to ensure a consistent and aligned view of energy security.
• Pre-empt topics responding to significant external eventsimpactingenergy security, leading the preparation and / or coordination of information to answer energy security related questions.

• Degree educated in a relevant topic, or significant proven experience,
• Detailed understanding of the gas National Transmission System (NTS), current system operation and balancing(highly desirable),
• Programme Management – demonstrable experience of delivering complex projects and programmes,
• Stakeholder Management – strong experience and credibility managing internal and external stakeholders at all levels,
• Outstanding Communication – able to confidentlydisseminatecomplex information and relay appropriately to audiences,
• Adapt at writing CEO briefing papers, Executive and Board papers and delivering presentations at all levels,
• Leadership –provenmanagement experience witha track recordof…