Transformation Manager

We’re looking for a passionate Transformation Manager to join our Transformation team!

The Transformation Manager plays a key independent role within the Transformation team, supporting a portfolio of transformation programmes to move from good intent to confident delivery. This is a hands-on position suited to an individual who brings structure, pace, and constructive challenge, enabling teams to translate ambition into clear plans, measurable outcomes, and practical delivery actions.

Working across multiple programmes and in close collaboration with stakeholders across the business, the Transformation Manager supports teams in building defined milestones, governance frameworks, RAID controls, delivery routines, success measures, and value cases. The role strengthens consistency, visibility, and momentum across the portfolio, ensuring that activity is aligned with wider transformation initiatives and programmes, while enabling business teams to take ownership and deliver change through the right balance of support, challenge, and practical guidance.

This role is based out of our Warwick office, and we’d hope to see you at least 2 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

• Support programme leads and business owners to develop robust programme plans, milestones, deliverables and delivery routines.
• Drive consistency in how programmes across the portfolio are structured, governed, reported and managed.
• Identify, track and progress risks, issues, dependencies and actions across multiple programmes.
• Maintain delivery momentum by following up actions, challenging slippage and escalating barriers where required.
• Provide productive challenge to programme teams to ensure delivery plans, governance and execution remain robust, realistic and aligned to intended outcomes.
• Support the development of clear outcomes, benefits, value cases, success measures and KPIs for programmes where these are not yet mature.
• Help identify dependency clashes, gaps and areas of misalignment between programmes, escalating these into portfolio planning and governance.
• Ensure programmes remain aligned to wider transformation initiatives, portfolio priorities and related change activity, helping teams understand where their work connects and where decisions or dependencies need to be joined up.
• Provide targeted support where needed to help structure scope, shape delivery plans, progress actions or clarify value, while ensuring ownership remains with the accountable business owners.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with stakeholders across the business, transformation teams and programme communities to support joined-up delivery, clear communication and shared ownership of outcomes.
• Operate independently within the Transformation team, while actively collaborating with colleagues where needed to share insight, align approaches and support a consistent experience for stakeholders and programme teams.
• Contribute to a single, joined-up view of portfolio progress, risks, milestones, benefits and decision points, providing clear insight and narrative so leaders can make informed decisions with confidence.
• Raise overall programme maturity across the portfolio through practical project management support, coaching and simple, effective ways of working.

What You'll Have

• Relevant experience in project management, transformation, change delivery, business improvement or portfolio support.
• Strong planning, organisation, stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work across multiple programmes and business teams.
• Experience of supporting transformation, change or complex delivery programmes in a business environment.
• Strong project management capability, including planning, milestone management, action tracking, dependency management and RAID controls.
• Ability to work across multiple programmes with varying levels of maturity and bring structure, clarity and consistency.
• A proactive self-starter who can identify where value can be added, structure the work needed and drive progress independently.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to break down complex problems, understand root causes and translate them into tangible actions.
• Confident stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence, challenge and support business teams constructively and build trusted working relationships.
• Understanding of portfolio delivery principles, programme governance and the importance of critical path and dependency visibility.
• Ability to connect programme activity with wider transformation priorities, identifying opportunities to align plans, share insight and avoid duplication across related initiatives.
• Ability to translate complex delivery information into clear, concise updates, insight and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Experience of operating in a regulated, operational or infrastructure environment would be beneficial.

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 £75,000 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 20 October 26, with interviews due to take place w/c 26 October 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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