Commercial Governance Lead

National Grid • Permanent • Warwick, GB • £62k / year • 23m ago

About the role

Join us and help connect more clean, low-carbon power to England and Wales.

National Grid Strategic Infrastructure (SI) is developing and constructing a series of HVDC projects along the east coast of Great Britain. These projects play a vital part in achieving the UK Government’s ambition of connecting 50GW of offshore wind by 2030.

This is your chance to help make Net Zero happen by leading commercial governance of the infrastructure projects. You'll drive governance and assurance of commercial excellence projects, hitting key milestones along the way to enable project delivery and business growth.

This role welcomes applicants UK wide, and we offer hybrid working from office and home. You can expect to travel to our UK offices as required and your local office at least once a week.

Key accountabilities

Oversee and manage the processes, policies and controls within the business units commercial activities, ensuring compliance with legal and ethical standards, whilst controlling costs within regulatory guidelines and risk mitigation.
Contract review, pricing strategy, relationship management, all with focus on maintaining a robust governance framework across commercial aspects of project delivery.
Employ a robust risk management process. Whenever a project requires changes, ensure the project remains within governance.
Design and maintain comprehensive commercial policies and procedures in accordance with Ofgem requirements and business principles.
Identify, assess and mitigate potential commercial risk.
Identify opportunities to enhance commercial governance processes including implementing new technologies.

About you

The most important thing is that you’re excited about building the kind of infrastructure that will help make Net Zero happen.

You will be working in a busy, buoyant environment with lots of variety and change. You’ll need to be resilient, driven, and good at prioritising and managing your own time, particularly when the unexpected crops up.

The strength of a project depends on excellent teamwork so you’ll have to be good with people too. You make decisions based on the greater good and carefully consider the communities you are working in. With a demonstrated ability to build high-calibre, motivated teams.

You'll have significant and extensive commercial and/or regulatory experience. With strong knowledge of commercial management frameworks, methodologies, and tools specific to large-scale infrastructure projects.

You'll have experience managing effective engagement with customers and stakeholders, including Government departments and industry bodies.

A full UK driving licence is essential and you'll be flexible to some overnight UK travel.

What you'll get

A competitive salary between £65,000 – £80,000 – dependent on capability.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a job requirement car, a bonus of up to 15% of your salary for stretch 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, technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

About us

National Grid Strategic Infrastructure is a Business Unit created to propel our grid forward to deliver in 5 years, what has been achieved in the previous 30. By 2030 we aim to have 17 new major infrastructure projects live across England, Scotland and Wales.

Here at National Grid, we connect homes and businesses to power, making sure supply and demand match each other. We make sure the lights are on in schools, operating theatres, and sporting arenas; we’re thousands of people working on behalf of millions of people.

Our investment in Strategic Infrastructure via The Great Grid Upgrade will mean more home-grown power, greater energy security and a cleaner future.

Whatever your role, wherever you work with us, you’ll help us hit stretching targets and achieve our far-reaching goal: to secure, clean energy that supports our world far into the future. Here, you will be at the heart of energy.

More information

This role closes on 10 April 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. Interviews to be held week commencing 14 April.

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.

Our goal is to drive, develop and operate our business in a way that results in a more inclusive culture. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, the innovation from diverse teams & perspectives and business need. We are committed to building a workforce so we can represent the communities we serve and have a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.

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