Manager – Performance

2 weeks ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Northern Powergrid Full time

Manager – Performance & Integration

Location: Castleford

Directorate: Energy Systems

Job Ref No: R6942


Do you have what it takes to play a key role in shaping the electricity distribution network of the future and be at the heart of achieving net zero?


We are Northern Powergrid, and we are responsible for powering everyday life for 8 million people across the North East, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire. We are a diverse team, creating a smarter, more flexible electricity distribution network that will enable our region to decarbonise and meet the needs of our customers now, and in the future.


The Energy Systems directorate is leading the Distribution System Operation (DSO) transition, delivering an increasingly smart and flexible energy system for our customers and enabling net zero with maximum resilience at minimal overall cost.


This is an exciting opportunity at a time of significant and fascinating change within the energy sector. We are looking for an experienced manager with a strategic outlook to join us as the Performance & Integration Manager. You will play a key role in the energy transition, helping set strategic direction, manage a complex programme of change, track benefits delivered and drive performance.


What’s the package?


Along with a competitive salary of up to £70k (dependent on experience), we also offer great benefits such as:


  • Enrolment into our double-matched pension scheme
  • Annual bonus of up to 20%
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing with career tenure)
  • Excellent opportunities for career growth


What will you do?


  • Lead the creation of strategic planning for the directorate combining business priorities, regulatory frameworks and stakeholder engagement, in order to deliver effective short and medium term plans.
  • Own key regulatory frameworks including the DSO Incentive and the Major Connections Incentive, ensuring we are planning and delivering to improve performance.
  • Lead on internal initiatives within the directorate to drive effective employee engagement and create high-performing team, dove-tailing into our company wide Power of 10 cultural programme.
  • Deliver a benefits management framework to forecast, track and measure to value that DSO is delivering for our region.
  • Design and deliver programmes of stakeholder engagement to communicate and co-create, to ensure our plans have a comprehensive understanding of stakeholder needs.
  • Manage headcount and financial budgets for the directorate, including annual planning, monthly tracking and forecasting and organisational design.
  • Own processes to feed internal management reporting.


Key Competencies


  • Excellent communication skills – clearly communicate across different audiences, from summarising key issues for Exec level consumption through to describing complex concepts in simple understandable terms for external stakeholders.
  • Strategic thinking – create clear plans based on sound analysis of multiple and complex drivers.
  • Relationship management – positively engage with internal and external stakeholders in order to influence and build relationships.
  • Continuous Improvement – drive continuous improvement, effectively identifying and prioritising opportunities to improve or create new business processes.
  • Building teams – build an effective team around a clear vision ,and deliver through others.
  • Programme and change management – manage a complex programme of change that impacts a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.


What qualifications and experience should you have?


  • Qualified to degree level in a relevant subject
  • Relevant experience of strategic planning
  • Relevant experience of running a managed environment
  • Full driving licence is desirable


What next?


Key dates:


Closing date for applications: 24 January 2025

Interviews: W/C 3 February 2025

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If we identify that your skills and experience could be suitable for any other roles that we are currently recruiting for, we will put you forward for these opportunities too.


Visit northernpowergrid.com/careers to find out more about this and other career opportunities.


Applicants are considered on the basis of their suitability for the post irrespective of sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender re-assignment, race, age or disability, in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.

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