Resilience Programme Manager
Warwick, GB, CV34 6DA
About the role
National Grid Interconnectors is at the heart of UK’s transition to our net zero energy future. We operate a number of HVDC Interconnectors that connect the UK’s energy system to some of our closest neighbours, allowing energy to be imported to and exported from the UK.
As well as already owning a portfolio of HVDC Interconnectors, we’re working on developing new projects to ensure that we are able to meet the UK’s future demands for greener energy solutions.
We are currently recruiting for a Resilience Programme Manager within the UJV Operations team within National Grid.
Reporting to the Head of Resilience you will play a leading role in ensuring that our business has robust resilience plans in place and is able to respond to a wide range of events and challenges that may pose a risk to safety, our operations and our assets. By helping to improve resilience across our business you will be contributing to our mission of delivering high availability and reliability across our portfolio as we make a significant contribution the UK’s security of supply.
As a Resilience Programme Manager you will lead the delivery of a number of broad initiatives and provide guidance and support to other departments who are undertaking initiatives all designed to improve the overall resilience of the business.
You will also play a key role in supporting teams of Subject Matter Experts deliver their own resilience enhancing strategies, to cost and time, ensuring that benefits to the business are delivered as intended.
We’d hope to see you in the office and/or at one of our operational sites two days per week and you’re welcome to be in the office more often if that would work best for you.
Key Accountabilities
- Programme Management: You will be responsible for a wide range of initiatives that shall be driven internally within the resilience team and business led. overall programme.
- Risk Management: Work with all teams across the operational businesses to identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with our critical energy infrastructure.
- Preparedness Planning: Support the development of preparedness plans for all incidents with the potential to impact availability and reliability of the assets, ensuring that appropriate measures to enhance resilience are built into response and recovery strategies.
- Incident Response: Following any incidents, you will take a lead in working with the business to understand whether appropriate resilience measures were in place and where lessons can be learned for implementation across the portfolio.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Develop strategic relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to enhance IC reputation as an industry leader.
- Industry Engagement: Accountable for defining lines to take across industry and industry engagement strategy (including but not limited to guidance on with who and when engagement should be aligned, managing and reporting on interactions, lobbying).
- Innovation: Work with National Grid Partners and others to identify novel solutions and ways of work that could drive innovation across the business in order to enhance resilience and/or increase availability and reliability.
About you
- Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or equivalent with a considerable breadth and depth of proven experience in regulation and stakeholder management.
- Significant experience working with senior stakeholders within a large organisation leading complex programmes of work, enabling project teams to operate innovatively, effectively and efficiently.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, capable of leading and influencing large, devolved teams, and gaining support and commitment from a wider operational group.
- Strong Stakeholder management experience, driving transformation and change across multiple departments, functions and external bodies.
- Experience of effective management of consultancy and SMEs to coordinate cohesive deliverables and policies.
- Experience of working with Cost Benefit Analysis tools and techniques to start and stop initiatives and areas of work.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, creating tangible content and analysis
What you'll get
A competitive salary between £70,000 - £81,000 – dependent on capability.
As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company 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.
About us
National Grid is pioneering ways to decarbonise the energy system; from building interconnectors to allow the UK to share clean energy with our neighbours in Europe, to investing in renewable energy generation in the United States.
As one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the world, National Grid is at the centre of a clean, fair and affordable energy future, where tackling climate change and reaching net zero is a key priority. National Grid is pioneering ways to decarbonise the energy system; from building interconnectors to allow the UK to share clean energy with our neighbours in Europe, to investing in renewable energy generation in the United States.
More Information
This role closes on 3rd June 2025 at 23:59, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary.
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.
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