Commercial Coordinator

About The Role

Brand New Permanent Role - Birmingham / London Offices - Hybrid Working

Great Britain's electricity infrastructure is undergoing an ambitious, exciting and vital transformation. Together with industry, we are creating a cleaner, greener system, one that protects the planet and serves generations to come.

As Commercial Coordinator you'll provide coordination and support to drive commercial and consumer value across critical Strategic Infrastructure projects required to connect more clean, low-carbon power to the transmission network. These projects play a vital part in achieving the UK Government’s ambition of connecting 50GW of offshore wind by 2030.

As a key part of the Commercial, Regulation and Supply Chain team, within our Strategic Infrastructure business, you will be crucial in working with our commercial colleagues to coordinate our teams’ activities as we support the effective delivery of these critical projects.

Part of an immediate team of 6 and a wider partnership of 12 people, you'll be great at building relationships across National Grid and our 7 partnered organisations as part of the Great Grid Partnership

You will work alongside senior leaders in the business to help plan, monitor and coordinate the work needed to keep us on track with delivering our key objectives and ensuring all leaders understand where our workplan in the delivery process. You will also need be able to horizon scan and proactively identify risk to help our teams respond and stay on track by implementing mitigating actions.

This role is hybrid based using home and offices as appropriate. Our available main team offices are Birmingham and London, benefitting from easy train access.

Occassional trips to sites in Wales may be required therefore the ability to drive would be advantageous. 

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 is/has:

• Highly organised with excellent writing, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Has strong commercial acumen
• Detail-oriented with the ability to step back and recognise the bigger picture 
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to multi-task with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience of working within large projects or programmes. Within the Energy Sector or other regulated environments would be advantageous
• Flexible and adaptable to change and excellent when working both independently and as part of a team
• Passionate about the role National Grid are playing in The UK's steps to net zeo 

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace for everyone. So if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

What You'll Do

Primarily you'll support with creating draft reports, meeting logistics, workshop content and drafting meeting notes in support of the senior leaders in the business unit. This includes capturing outputs allocating ownership of tasks and monitoring their completion.

You'll also plan activities, including setting deadlines, prioritising and ensuring ownership of actions and deliverables is clear across the team members. This includes taking ownership of delivering relevant actions.

Additionally you'll track stakeholder enggagement, ensuring the right people go to the right meetings, are aware of key messages and are reviewing the right deliverables.

You'll also help draft new and improve existing team policies and processes and monitor and track issues across project delivery teams.

You'll collaborate widely within our team and across projects to define, prioritising, and developing workplans to support us in achieving our objectives.

What You'll Get

A competitive starting salary between £40,000 – £45,000 – 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 was set up in 2023 with special dispensation from Ofgem to accelerate 17 key projects across the UK in order to deliver infrastructure upgrades within timescales never seen before in the UK. This infrastructure will make Britain prepared for a 100% clean, energy future.

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 August 31st 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. Interviews will be held on or around Sept 12th via Teams

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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