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National Grid is hiring a Principal Analyst, Strategy Development for Massachusetts This is a Hybrid Role - Must live within a commutable distance to one of our locations
This role supports the New England Business Unit's gas network decarbonization transformation by contributing to strategic plans and roadmaps, helping to set the right priorities, driving effective execution of needed initiatives, supporting the development of new capabilities, identifying needed regulatory/policy enablers, and aligning decarbonization and other outcomes to Company and state/federal goals. The remit also includes contributing to and sometimes managing strategic initiatives and special projects, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, and driving innovation.
The New England gas COO is accountable for overall execution of the gas network decarbonization transformation. This transformation comprises multiple workstreams, which each have executive sponsors and cross-functional teams mobilized to execute. This role will partner with those executive sponsors and teams to drive progress on one or more workstreams.
This role has multiple stakeholders and success will require effective facilitation and coordination skills as well as the ability to challenge established thinking and lead discussions among internal stakeholders. Your voice will be an important one in these debates and your ability to influence and take stakeholders with you will be crucial to your success.
- Strategy Development: Partner with corporate strategy team to refresh the gas business strategy.
- Strategic Planning: Coordinate a cross-functional team in developing a multi-year roadmap for a specific workstream(s) with clear priorities, initiatives, and outcomes.
- Transformation Program Management: Provide program management support to the executive sponsors of one or more gas decarbonization transformation workstreams. This includes: governance, performance management, risk management, testing and challenging initiative progress, and coaching of and problem-solving with initiative owners.
- Special Projects and Internal Consulting: Contribute to and in some cases manage cross-functional teams on special projects (e.g., novel regulatory filings, pilot/demo projects) ensuring successful delivery within scope, budget, and timeline and
- provide capacity and capability where needed to coach, problem-solve, or otherwise advance transformation initiatives.
- Innovation and Technology: Identify innovation priorities related to one or more gas network transformation workstreams and engage externally with peer utilities, industry trade groups, academics, and other stakeholders to learn best practices and other insights to inform the Company's transformation plan.
- Thought Leadership: Represent National Grid in industry forums, conferences, and working groups, sharing expertise and insights on the future of gas networks and their role in the clean energy transition.
- Strong inter-personal, relationship-building, and collaboration skills.
- Demonstrated experience conducting internal stakeholder engagement up to the director level.
- Experience in participating in and leading ad hoc, cross-functional teams.
- Experience in successfully organizing and leading teams through ambiguity to deliver high performance and make lasting change in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to clearly articulate critical strategic messages.
- Bachelor's degree required; Master's or advanced degree preferred
- 5+ years of relevant work experience
- Broad understanding of the energy sector and issues affecting the gas utility industry specifically (policy/regulatory, market, technology)
- Demonstrated expertise on decarbonization pathways, clean energy policies, gas network planning and operations, heat electrification, and/or innovative regulatory frameworks
- Experience in strategy development, strategy execution, and/or program management in large and complex corporate environments
- Strong oral and written communication skills and ability to convey complex strategic ideas to a wide range of audiences
- Analytical background/technical acumen with ability to gather & analyze data, including financial modeling
Salary - $156,000 - $184,000
This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.
National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience and expertise. We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.
What We Do
National Grid is one of the world's largest utilities, focused on delivering energy safely, efficiently, reliably and responsibly. National Grid is an international electricity and gas company and one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the world. We play a vital role in delivering gas and electricity to many millions of people across Great Britain and northeastern US in an efficient, reliable and safe manner.
We are committed to safeguarding our global environment for future generations and providing all our customers with the highest standards of service through investment in our networks and through our talented, diverse workforce. National Grid owns the high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales and operates the system across Great Britain.
It also owns and operates the high-pressure gas transmission system in Britain operating 7,660km of high-pressure pipeline, 24 compressor stations and more than 600 above-ground installations. In the US, National Grid distributes electricity to nearly five million customers in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island.
Owning 4,160 megawatts of electricity generation, it is the largest power producer in New York State supplying power to over one million customers on Long Island. It is also the largest distributor of natural gas in the northeastern US, delivering gas to 20 million customers in New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. National Grid also has a number of related businesses such as LNG importation and storage, land remediation and metering.
