About The Role

Brand New Role – Permanent – Hybrid Working Using Birmingham & London Offices

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.

Our Great Grid Partnership (GGP) Commercial and Cost Director joined us earlier this year and is growing his team who are based across the U.K.

As part of this growth our Head of Cost Management has joined working from our Glasgow office too.

This growth continues and we now have a Commercial Performance Manager role available who will report into our Head of Cost Management.

As our Commercial Performance Manager, you will love data and the opportunity to use it better.

You’ll relish manipulating and optimising systems for better results such as SharePoint and Power BI.

You may be from any industry not just infrastructure or construction. You may be from Financial Services or I.T, with a passion Net Zero and our role in this journey.

You’ll work with other professionals such as our Lead Cost Manager providing your expertise with data management and improvement, overlapping your input with their experience in construction or large infrastructure.

Working together, you will add huge benefit to make our infrastructure projects more efficient.

These roles are very hybrid as our team are based across the UK. Our Head of Cost Management is Scotland based and our Director is London based and we have team members in between! So wherever you’re based in the UK, we’d love to hear from you.

We continue to offer hybrid working from office and home and currently the vast majority of activity is completed from a home basis.

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/is:

• Able to operate autonomously, developing programme data from limited information though the development
• Extensive knowledge of change management processes and techniques and the ability to use them to develop and improve project performance
• Some appreciation of working on major infrastructure projects and developing and maintaining data and systems tools and techniques

If you don’t have infrastructure or construction experience this is ok. If you have a track recording of hands on improvement of management information across major programmes with a passion for our role in the UK’s net zero journey, we’d be interested to review your CV.

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

• You’ll act as a source of guidance and support for GGP Partners in their development, implementation and management of their package responses to the required Standard Operating Procedures (SoPs) in relation to cost planning and management.
• Supporting the integration of core systems across development and delivery areas, you will ensure any activities are captured, logic driven and integrated.
• Working closely with partners and stakeholders you will manage and maintain the scope of works and associated cost information
• Supporting the planning and scheduling of workshops, you’ll ensure compliance with key client SoPs
• You’ll present reports in a format suitable for different stakeholders
• Identifying and integrating the cost elements of all relevant schedules, you’ll help to highlight criticality and dependencies between projects and programme areas
• You will regularly ensure the update of cost forecasts based on progress and amend to include changes to baseline
• Undertaking package and / or project analysis, you will lead with the preparation of cost risk and opportunity analysis
• Working with the wider team, you help to understand the impact of compensation events and/or risks and issues
• You’ll maintain and update accurate performance data in a timely manner, as per the programme reporting calendar

You will develop strong cross-functional relationships with your peers in commercial, project controls and finance 

What You'll Get

A competitive starting salary between £50,000 – £60,000 – 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 has a key role to play in tackling climate change by accelerating our capacity to deliver clean electricity across the UK. We already operate the fastest decarbonising electricity grid in the world, with an ambition for zero carbon operation by 2025. And by 2035, we want to run 100% clean, green energy, all the time.

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 Sept 22nd 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 October 2nd or 3rd via MS 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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