Strategic Technical Interface Manager

About The Role

As a Strategic Technical Interface Manager, you will be responsible for managing a portfolio of Strategic Technical Interfaces that impact multiple projects across the Strategic Infrastructure Portfolio. You will act as National Grid's senior day-to-day representative with key external organisations, including utility companies, transport authorities, other infrastructure providers and internal National Grid stakeholders, ensuring that interface requirements are understood, risks are managed and opportunities are realised.

We are recruiting multiple Strategic Technical Interface Managers to support projects across our East of England and North regions. You'll be assigned to a project within your region and will travel to the relevant project office on a weekly basis.

You’ll need to be a strategic leader who excels at delving into the detail and identifying potential risks or issues. You’ll be working within a complex environment and dealing with the multidisciplinary aspects of our transformational portfolio; if you’re looking to take on more responsibility, this is a unique opportunity.

The Strategic Technical Interface Manager will work closely with the Portfolio Technical Interface Manager, Portfolio Directors, Project Directors, Senior Project Managers, Delivery Partners and external stakeholders to ensure strategic technical interfaces are managed consistently, efficiently and proactively across the portfolio.

This role is Variable Based. You will be expected to travel to project locations throughout your working week based on project demands. Operational or delivery roles requiring attendance at multiple sites within a region.

About You

• Degree level education in a relevant discipline, or equivalent experience in major infrastructure planning and delivery.
• Significant experience in the delivery of infrastructure projects and across multi-disciplinary teams
• Strong communication, facilitation and relationship management skills, with the ability to engage credibly with senior leaders, project teams and external stakeholders.
• Proven experience managing complex stakeholder relationships across multiple organisations, including the ability to influence outcomes without direct authority.
• Strong understanding of project and programme management principles, including the management of dependencies, interfaces, risk and governance.
• Experience developing and implementing governance processes, reporting frameworks and performance measures to support effective decision making.
• Demonstrated ability to lead change, drive continuous improvement and establish consistent ways of working across multiple projects or organisations.
• Understanding of commercial, legal and regulatory frameworks applicable to major infrastructure projects, including the development and management of third-party agreements.
• Experience of negotiating technical, commercial or contractual agreements and securing outcomes that balance cost, schedule, scope and risk objectives.
• Experience working within a portfolio environment, identifying cross-project dependencies, opportunities and constraints and translating these into practical delivery actions

What You'll Do

Strategic Relationship Management

• Act as National Grid's senior day-to-day counterpart for assigned Strategic Technical Interfaces, developing trusted and effective relationships with external stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain effective governance arrangements, communication channels and stakeholder engagement plans.
• Represent National Grid in meetings, negotiations and workshops with senior stakeholders, ensuring the interests of the portfolio are understood and protected.
• Develop and maintain Strategic Technical Interface Management Plans for assigned stakeholders.

Portfolio Interface Management

• Maintain a portfolio-wide view of interface activities, dependencies, constraints and opportunities associated with assigned Strategic Technical Interfaces.
• Ensure project teams have visibility of cross-project interface requirements and shared constraints.
• Coordinate interface activities across multiple projects to drive consistency of approach and outcomes.
• Support project teams in understanding interface requirements, risks and obligations.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing, lessons learned and best practice across projects.

Risk Management and Problem Solving

• Proactively identify systemic risks and emerging issues that could impact multiple projects across the portfolio.
• Develop and implement portfolio-level mitigation strategies where a single intervention can unlock benefits across several projects.
• Support the escalation and resolution of critical interface issues.
• Identify opportunities to improve delivery efficiency, reduce programme risk and enhance stakeholder outcomes.
• Ensure interface-related risks are effectively captured, managed and reported through appropriate governance forums.

Commercial and Legal Standardisation

• Lead the development and standardisation of legal, technical and commercial agreements required for Strategic Technical Interfaces.
• Work collaboratively with Legal, Commercial and Project teams to establish consistent approaches across the portfolio.
• Negotiate optimal interface outcomes balancing cost, schedule, scope and risk considerations.
• Ensure key decisions, commitments and impacts are documented and communicated through portfolio reporting processes.

Governance, Reporting and Continuous Improvement

• Support the development and implementation of Interface Management Guidance, standards and ways of working.
• Contribute to portfolio interface reporting, performance metrics and dashboards.
• Monitor stakeholder performance and identify trends impacting project delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement in interface management practices and processes.
• Support the development of interface management capability within project teams through coaching, mentoring and sharing of best practice.

Safety Leadership

• Promote and drive a positive safety culture across all interface activities.
• Ensure health, safety and wellbeing considerations are integrated into interface management activities and decision making.
• Undertake safety leadership activities and champion National Grid's safety values and behaviours.

What You'll Get

A competitive salary up to £80,000 dependent on capability.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus of up to 30% of your salary for stretch 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

The British Energy Security Strategy set out the Government's ambition to connect up to 50GW of offshore generation to the electricity network by 2030. Facilitating this ambition will require significant reinforcements to the onshore electricity transmission network. National Grid Strategic Infrastructure will make this happen.

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 5th October 2026 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.

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.

Please note that in most cases, National Grid is unable to offer sponsorship for employment under the UK points-based immigration system. As such, applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship now or in the future under the UK points-based immigration system. However, in exceptional circumstances where there is a clear and demonstrable need for specialist skills that cannot be sourced from the local labour market, National Grid may consider offering sponsorship. All applications are welcome from candidates who meet these requirements, regardless of race, nationality, or ethnic origin.

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