Location:
Warwick, GB, CV34 6DA
Division: Network Strategy & Operations
Job Type: Full Time
Requisition Number: 68095
Department:
Job Function: Leadership
The primary purpose of Head of Portfolio and Performance role is to ensure Electricity Transmission maintains a single and optimised portfolio of work delivery. This position establishes a comprehensive portfolio control framework that aligns with other portfolio leads across the organisation, while ensuring that each function retains operational accountability for successful delivery. In addition, this role will ensure the provision of high quality insight on portfolio performance to a wide range of stakeholders that enables timely action.
In this exciting role, you will excel at building strong relationships with internal and external customers, stakeholders, utility industries, and government agencies. Your exceptional people leadership and problem-solving skills will be crucial in propelling the performance and growth of the ET business, making a significant impact on our mission to deliver reliable energy solutions. Join us in this transformative journey!
This role is based out of our office, and we’d hope to see you at least two days per week but you’re welcome to be in the office more often if that would work best for you. We’re happy to discuss any additional flexibility in working patterns or requirements that you feel could help to make this job work for you!
What You'll Do
- Set the direction for how Electricity Transmission will manage and maintain a single view of the portfolios of work, to ensure all portfolios align with the organisations strategic goals and objectives.
- Set the direction for how Electricity Transmission will manage performance of the total portfolio of work, ensuring timely, actionable insight provided to the right stakeholders at the right time to enable deliver success.
- Implement portfolio change control processes to ensure consistency, transparency, and appropriate challenge into delivery vehicles.
- Embed a digital-first approach to portfolio management, ensuring we efficiently and effectively scale capability to operate in an environment with ever increasing work volumes and complexity.
- Engage and influence key stakeholders, internal and external, on the insights and decisions required when making portfolio prioritisation decisions.
- Build and lead a high performing portfolio and performance management team.
What You'll Have
- Experience establishing portfolio management capability at enterprise level in an organisation, evolving capability and significantly improving effectiveness
- Experience in the development and maintenance of a portfolio that ensures projects are aligned with strategic objectives, prioritised, and optimised within the organisational context
- Someone with exceptional stakeholder skills that can work across an organisation and foster accountability for delivery
- Experience building and implementing transformation plans.
- Experience leading large and dispersed high performing teams.
- Experience operating at Executive level.
- Relevant Degree or equivalent qualification(s) and/or relevant experience in a related field is essential.
- Chartered Membership of a relevant organisation preferable or membership of a relevant organisation with skills and training leading to chartership.
What You'll Get
Competitive Base Salary dependent on experience and comprehensive senior leader reward package.
Further Information
This is a hybrid working role from our Warwick or Strand office with circa 2 days in the office. The closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 7 August 25, with interviews due to take place w/c 11 August onwards. We encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date. National Grid’s recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.
About us
Upgrading the grid today makes for a better tomorrow!
Our infrastructure projects across England and Wales are helping to connect more clean, affordable energy to your homes and businesses. The Great Grid Upgrade comprises 17 major infrastructure projects that will both scale up the grid and update our existing networks. It will enable us to carry more clean, secure energy from where it’s generated like out in the North Sea by wind turbines – to where you need it, boosting energy security and helping the nation become more self-sufficient.
We own and maintain the high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales. Every time a phone is plugged in, or a switch is turned on, we’ve played a part, connecting you to the electricity you need. We take electricity generated from windfarms and other power sources and transport it through our network of pylons, overhead lines, cables, and substations. It then goes on to separate lower voltage local distribution networks, which connect directly to homes and businesses. We're investing for the future, connecting more and more low carbon electricity to our network - it’s a crucial role and pivotal in turning the UK’s net zero ambitions into reality.
National Grid is committed to doing the right thing, finding a better way and making it happen. If you want to be part of this journey, apply today!
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