Commercial Strategy Implementation Lead

Commercial Strategy Implementation Lead - Shaping the future of commercial delivery by integrating strategy, capability, and performance to unlock growth and operational excellence.

We’re looking for a passionate Commercial Strategy Implementation Lead to join our Commercial team!

Under the direction of the Head of Commercial Excellence, the Commercial Strategy Implementation Lead is responsible for shaping, driving, and delivering an integrated commercial strategy across the organisation, ensuring key milestones are achieved to support both operational delivery and business growth. The role requires a flexible and results-driven approach to managing a portfolio of projects, with insights and lessons learned shared across the wider business and beyond. Its purpose is to enable Commercial Excellence to progress to its next phase of evolution by expanding and accelerating the rollout of key elements of the Commercial Excellence Framework across both onshore and offshore delivery teams.

This role is based out of our Warwick 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

• Lead and own end-to-end implementation of strategic Commercial Excellence initiatives ensuring alignment to enterprise priorities and delivery of measurable business value.
• Translate strategic initiatives into clear execution roadmaps, performance tracking, ensuring delivery against key milestones and outcomes.
• Identify, shape and deliver high-impact commercial improvement opportunities using data, insight and industry best practice.
• Act as a senior integrator across functions, driving alignment and collaboration to deliver complex, cross-business commercial initiatives.
• Lead on providing clear, evidence-based recommendations to senior leadership, influencing decision making and driving adoption across Strategic Infrastructure.
• Lead the embedding of commercial standards, tools, controls and ways of working to strengthen capability and consistency.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement, accountability and performance excellence across the commercial function.
• Communicate initiatives with impact, influencing and aligning stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership.
• Capture and scale learning across programmes to ensure sustainable, repeatable improvement and organisational maturity.

What You'll Have

• Degree or equivalent in relevant discipline (economics/law/business/engineering or similar).
• UK Drivers Licence.
• Significant experience operating at a senior level within a commercial, infrastructure, or capital delivery environment.
• Proven track record of leading large-scale strategy implementation or business transformation in a complex, matrix organisation.
• Strong understanding of commercial lifecycle management across major capital programmes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional strategic initiatives and influence senior stakeholders.
• Change and transformation leadership.
• Strong programme and project delivery capability.
• Analytical, insight-driven decision making.
• Excellent executive communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, evolving environments.

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 £76,000 dependent on experience.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance with on target being 15% (with a maximum of 30%) 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 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 2 June 26, with interviews due to take place w/c 8 June 26 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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