Digital Product Manager

About Us

At National Grid, we light up the world by harnessing the unique strengths of our people. Join us as a Digital Product Manager to be part of a team that's driving forward the energy transition, creating a brighter, more sustainable future for all. Unleash your superpower and bring energy to life.

National Grid is hiring a Digital Product Manager  - This position is based from our Warwick office however we offer flexible hybrid working options.

Job Purpose

In this role you’ll be managing our digital product squads, aligning with our Digital Twin Strategy. You’ll be leading the deployment of digital technologies to optimise the Electricity Network Design for energy generation, transmission, and demand for England and Wales.

You’ll be overseeing the lifecycle of an entire line of products that will help make Net Zero happen. Many of these products are completely bespoke, designed and created in-house.

You’ll be involved in everything from product design to production, mapping the digital landscape and defining the long-term roadmap.

This is a job for those with aspirations for future leadership. You’ll be working on multiple Network Design related product with enormous scope and multi-million-pound investment. You’ll be given great autonomy and the opportunity to deliver meaningful change at the heart of the energy transition.

What You'll Do

·        Managing the funding and sanction processes to enable the teams to deliver the right content.

·        Communicating and building strong, collaborative relationships with senior management. This is the biggest part of the role. You will influence attitudes, decisions and actions for mutual benefit and keep colleagues updated on digital progress.

·        Driving and communicating a digital roadmap for your product line and implementing systems such as team structures and ways of working.

·        Understanding the business needs, researching the market and either introducing or building market leading digital products.

·        Ensuring adoption and value realisation of digital products through customer centric design and value analysis.

·        Ensuring your team members build good relationships with relevant stakeholders. They must be professional, open, collaborative, and able to challenge others and be challenged themselves in an amicable, respectful way.

·        Developing a well-balanced, cross-functional team by ensuring learning opportunities are identified and optimised, and people are given the support they need.

·        Acting as the ultimate escalation point for issue resolution within your field.

·        Planning and leading scoping and priority setting activities.

·        Building on enduring digital product capability to enable continuous digital improvement and align to our digital twin strategy.

About You

• Product Management, Managing and developing products or services through their full life cycle from inception, growth, maturity, decline to retirement.
• Financial Management, Supporting the effective use and control of financial resources.
• Stakeholder and Relationship Management, Influencing stakeholder attitudes, decisions, and actions for mutual benefit.
• Organisational Change Management, planning, designing, and implementing activities to transition the organisation and people to the required future state.
• Methods and tools, ensuring methods and tools are adopted and used effectively throughout the organisation.

Leadership Qualities & Business Skills

• Autonomy, Is fully responsible for meeting allocated technical and/or project/supervisory objectives
• Influence & Communication, Builds appropriate and effective business relationships.
• Complexity, Performs an extensive range and variety of complex technical and/or professional work activities
• Business Skills, Demonstrates creativity, innovation, and ethical thinking in applying solutions for the benefit of the customer/stakeholder
• Knowledge, Actively seeks out new knowledge for own personal development and the mentoring or coaching of others

What You'll Get

A competitive salary between £77,000 – £91,000 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.

More Information

The closing date for this vacancy is 22nd May. However, 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.

In NGET we are passionate about both operating our network safely and providing highly reliable quality of supply for our customers. At the heart of achieving these outcomes is the effective control and operation of our network.

To find out more about us, please follow the link below:

https://www.nationalgrid.com/electricity-transmission/ 

DE & I statement 

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.

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.

 #LI-KR1

#LI-HYBRID