Business Performance Analyst

We’re looking for a passionate Business Performance Analyst to join our Business Performance team!

The role drives transparent business performance by designing, governing and delivering best‑practice performance management and insight. It ensures that complex operational and commercial information is transformed into clear, meaningful and timely insight that supports effective decision‑making by the Executive Team and senior stakeholders. Acting as a trusted challenger and connector across the business, the role promotes accountability, highlights risks and opportunities and strengthens performance awareness. It also leads the transformation from manual reporting to automated, digital and future‑focused insight, including the effective use of emerging technologies and AI.

This role is based out of our offices in Warwick, for 2 days per week and can be combined with hybrid working from home.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain a strong network across the wider performance community and independently manage important relationships with senior leaders.
• Support the design and management of the ET and NGET performance system so that it is best practice at driving business performance, effectively presenting information in the most dynamic and meaningful way that “joins the dots” between operational delivery and commercial performance, ensuring complex information is easily understood and appropriate to the audience to inform decision-making by the ET Executive and other senior stakeholders.
• Drive the monthly drumbeat of performance deliverables, meeting quality criteria and deadlines.
• Challenge the business (with both an in-year and future years focus) in the clear and transparent identification of risks, issues, dependencies, opportunities and clear, time-based, owned action plans to deliver improved performance over time. 
• Help move the business from manual, time-intensive Management Information to automated insight through the identification and utilisation appropriate digital tools, seeking continual improvement and with an awareness and desire to harness the potential of AI.
• Drive wider awareness across the business of business performance.
• Play an important role in the preparation of C-Suite reports.
• Challenge the business to provide right first-time, high-quality insight.
• Work on the transformation of performance including the forums, digital solutions and ways of working.

What You'll Have

• Possess a deep understanding of business performance.
• Ability to draft reporting for an executive audience.
• Strong stakeholder management skills including ability to challenge and be comfortable engaging with executive stakeholders.
• Experience of getting “hands on” in a transformation project, ideally in the performance space.
• Strong project management and organisational skills.
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet strict delivery timelines.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Desirable:

• Experience working in capital and asset intensive industries, preferably energy / regulated.
• Understand our commercial and regulatory challenges and external stakeholders are.
• Data analysis skills with proficiency in development of Power BI dashboards including writing custom DAX functions, practical experience in Power Apps, Power Platform, Power FX (Power Platform coding language), SQL Querying.

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 are 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 Get

Up to £55,000 dependent on experience.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance and competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to several 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.

Further Information

The closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 11 May 26, with interviews due to take place w/c 18 May 2026 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

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating, and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry. To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business.

At National Grid, 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. Our goal is to drive, develop and operate our business in a way that results in a more inclusive culture. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, the innovation from diverse teams & perspectives and business need. We are committed to building a workforce so we can represent the communities we serve and have a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.

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