About us

National Grid (NG) touches the lives of almost everyone in the UK, with an energy network that stretches across the Atlantic. As the world changes to embrace cleaner energy and businesses shift to operate in a more responsible way, we are leading that charge. We are focused on finding 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 US.
The National Grid Electricity System Operator (NGESO) is a legally separate business within the National Grid Group. As the Electricity System Operator (ESO), we sit at the heart of the energy system. We move electricity around the system to where it’s needed in homes and businesses, balancing electricity supply and demand second by second, 24x7x365 days a year, keeping the lights on in the UK.
Climate change is the challenge of a generation and the time to act is now. The ESO plays a central role within the energy industry to deliver a greener future, looking at different energy scenarios many years ahead and thinking about how the market needs to adapt to achieve net-zero.
We’re excited and proud of the role we are playing in the decarbonisation of the energy system so come join us, at ESO Digital Data and Technology, on our truly transformative journey to help shape the future of energy and bring it to life.

Job Purpose

The purpose of this role is to plan and co-ordinate delivery throughout the lifecycle of a project, delivering the most effective and efficient technology solutions. This will be achieved by leveraging a range of resources and experience across multiple teams and third-party vendors.

The Project Manager will be responsible for bringing together the multidisciplinary team who work together to deliver solutions, ensuring delivery meets time, cost and quality criteria.

Key Accountabilities

• Manage any critical dependencies, risks, plans, costs, and resourcing projects across interlinked projects within a multi-supplier eco-system throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure the investment proposals are accurate
• Managing the agreed project governance structures, resources, escalations and budgets
• Ensuring the correct processes and controls are being followed and information cascaded
• Managing the delivery schedule around timelines
• Reporting against assigned KPI’s and/or regulatory commitments
• Working closely with service teams to facilitate transition
• Communicating key delivery information
• Ensuring the agreed processes are being fulfilled– documentation, business readiness, service transition etc.
• The project manager will be responsible for RAID management and weekly status updates and monthly reporting on the project to the Programme Management Board.
• The role is flexible and hybrid, with office presence currently required 2-3 days per week

Experience Required

• A good extensive knowledge of IT delivery models and the end-to-end cycle of delivering IT solutions
• Has a depth of knowledge to ensure predictable and unexpected complexities are effectively managed through stakeholder influence & management.
• Proven leadership, relationship, communication and presentation skills
• A good track record of delivering IT projects across multiple teams and delivery partners
• Experience of delivering in an Agile environment
• Relevant industry certification essential, e.g – PMP, Prince2 or equivalent
• Relevant industry certification desirable, e.g – Agile PM certification, SAFe practitioner
• Experience building and managing a project schedule in Microsoft Project or similar project management tool utilising data-based decision making (GANTT charts, etc)

More Information

A competitive salary between £40,000 - £54,000 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.

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