Manager Strategy Development

National Grid's U.S. Integrated Design & Deployment Office (IDDO) is dedicated to successfully delivering large-scale technology-enabled transformation. The IDDO ensures that transformation programs are planned, sequenced, and de-risked effectively across our U.S. business. By joining the IDDO, you will be at the forefront of National Grid's ambition to build a clean, fair and affordable energy future.

• Develop integrated portfolio management approach that aligns technology investments / programs to National Grid's strategic priorities and outcomes.
• Improve how technology investments / programs are prioritized, sequenced, and managed to maximize value delivery.
• Lead & facilitate program teams to identify, understand & de-risk critical resource constraints, interdependencies (e.g. a delay in one program impacting another program's timeline), and user impacts
• Lead scenario analysis & quantify the cost/benefit impact of interventions (e.g. changing scope, delaying, accelerating, resequencing)
• Be accountable for portfolio governance including facilitating collective program decisions and escalations; build and maintain reporting deliverables as needed including status reports, RAID logs, risk registers, etc.
• Drive collaboration with business operations and program teams through top-notch stakeholder management & communication; plan and lead integrated design sprints and workshops to build alignment across programs
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture teams to improve technical integrations between programs and plan future investments against our technology roadmap
• Partner with Data Leaders to define and govern program-critical data, and build data maturity across programs
• Establish and continuously improve scalable, repeatable approaches to portfolio management within a newly formed team

* Bachelor's degree (minimum), and graduate degree or equivalent experience
* 6+ years of experience in consulting, large-scale technology planning & program implementation, and / or technology portfolio management
* Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, defining new processes, governance models, and operating structures where required
* Ability to influence without direct authority, aligning stakeholders and facilitating enterprise decision-making across competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
* Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to analyze data, assess complex issues, draw conclusions, and provide recommendations
* Excellent presentation, interpersonal and storytelling / communication skills with stakeholders at all levels including C-level leadership
* Experience with design thinking / workshop facilitation
* Strong understanding of enterprise architecture and data concepts, frameworks, and tools
* Experience in quantifying and tracking benefits realization

Less Important / Not Disqualifiers
* Track record delivering large technology programs or portfolios on time and within budget
* Experience with portfolio management tooling (e.g. ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management)
* Experience with AI tools to support technology delivery
* PMP and other relevant certifications

* MBA

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. National Grid is leading the way on climate change. To do this, we committed to transforming our company, our performance and the way we work.

National Grid is seeking a Manager with a balance of analytical discipline, creative thinking, and change management expertise to join our Transformation Office team in Brooklyn, NY or Waltham, MA with hybrid working.

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