Data & Digitalisation Lead

7 months ago

Newport, United Kingdom Wales & West Utilities Full time

**Data & Digitalisation Lead**

**Job details**

**Salary**: £57,450 - £65,650

**Location**:Celtic Springs

**Contract Type**:Permanent (Full Time)

**Working hours/pattern**:37 hours Monday to Friday

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**Who are we?**

We are a gas distribution business that services the gas infrastructure across Wales and the south-west of England. We serve our customers and communities with safe, reliable, and affordable energy services whilst investing to create a sustainable future to deliver our carbon-free vision for 2050.

**What we’re looking for?**

We’re looking for a Data & Digitalisation Lead to join our RIIO3 department in Newport to work as part of the Business Plan team, this role will be responsible for WWU’s transformation to making data digital and available to support the move to net zero. This will include documenting data assets, data owners and producing data quality assessments and improvements plans. There will be a need to identify data users both internal and external to WWU and consulting on their data needs and how we make that data accessible.

All of this will need to be converted into a robust 5 year plan for systems, people and data management for submission to Ofgem.

**We’ll trust you to**:

- Produce and maintain a digitalisation strategy and plan for the period 2026-2031 (WWU next price control period)
- Attend the Ofgem stakeholder engagement working groups, ENA data digitalisation steering group and our Customer Engagement Group (CEG)
- Develop a 5 year plan and write a robust and evidenced business plan chapter for the next price control period with support from the Business Plan writer

Roles and responsibilities are a guide and dependent on Ofgem's framework decision on future work

You can read a full job description **here**.**

**You’ll need to have**:

- Good understanding of data, metadata and principles of open data and data triage
- An awareness of data governance frameworks and systems that would support.
- An ability to work with various business departments, understanding their data and data needs
- Budget management and ability to author investment papers

We would also love to hear about anything else you feel you could add or bring to the role

**What’s in it for you?**
- A competitive salary starting at £57,450 rising to £65,650
- Hybrid working
- Flexible working opportunities
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Retirement Savings Plan (pension) with Aviva: 5% employee contribution, with WWU doubling your contribution at 10% - totalling 15%
- 14 x salary Life Insurance linked to membership of the Retirement Savings Plan
- “Choices” flexible benefit scheme options including corporate gym memberships, dental insurance, and health cash-plans
- Access to our Financial Wellbeing Programme - allowing you to manage your benefits flexibly to suit your financial needs
- Enhanced pay for parental leave
- Retail discounts and cashback scheme
- Annual salary review
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Company Sick Pay
- In-house Occupational Health Team
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Comprehensive training

**The way we do things**

Our Ambition, Priorities and Values inform everything we do as a business - from our strategic planning to the performance management of our colleagues. Our values underpin everything we do and we are committed to creating a working environment that supports and fosters diversity, inclusion and equity, where all of our colleagues feel valued and supported to contribute to their full potential.

We are focused on creating a culture where it doesn’t matter about gender, race, sexuality or disability; it’s about our colleagues’ skills, the way we do things and how we live our values.

Interested?

If you think you’d make a good addition to the team, we would love to hear from you

To apply, click the link below.

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