Director, Portfolio Delivery Manager - EAM & GIS

About us

 

Join National Grid’s digital transformation! We are digital creators, continuous learners and daring innovators. We leverage digital innovative ways to create products and catalyze the transformation of National Grid's business units into more agile and digitally native organizations in our shared purpose of bringing energy to life. Come and join us on this incredible journey, We need you!

 

We want to find an innovative, adaptable, and results-oriented Director, Portfolio Delivery Manager to help develop and evolve our capabilities for our EAM & GIS solutions in Waltham, MA (candidates may also reside in either, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, or Maine). These capabilities will allow us to provide an always improving experience to our customers while reducing our costs to serve them. If you yearn to be innovative, contribute new ideas, and play a critical part in our engineering organization for the US IT Electric business unit, we want to hear from you!

Job Purpose

 

Our employees, customers and stakeholders require data-centric technology led solutions that enable a fossil-free future through the transformation of our operational business. Digital products are at the centre of the revolution of these activities and this role will take ownership of the development and delivery to enable National Grid to be recognised as the leading US utility to support ours and our customers’ net zero ambitions.  

 

As a Portfolio Delivery Manager, you'll be a key leader within the US Electric IT team with the overall ownership to establish the strategy and its delivery for our transformational Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Work Management Systems (WMS) and Geospatial Information System (GIS) investments. As we invest in these transformational technologies, moving away from legacy and piecemeal solutions, you'll ensure we implement, maintain, and deliver on an effective technology strategy with a transparent outcome driven roadmap to meet the needs of our employees and customers driving significant value across our US Electric Business Unit.  

 

You'll work closely with key New York and New England business stakeholders to build a cohesive strategy & vision, drive the development and delivery of the portfolio for measurable outcomes, own the financial planning & total cost of ownership for the product family & manage multi-disciplinary delivery team.

 

You'll be a positive disrupter who will lead by example, to effectively use frontier technology, re-imagine business processes and mature agile ways of working to accelerate time to use of solutions and outcomes. You'll create an inclusive and energetic environment that thrives on innovation and create diverse high performing team culture.
 

What you'll do

 

• Partner with senior leaders to define and align business and product vision and strategy
• Successfully transition our US Electric Organization from legacy piecemeal technologies to industry leading enterprise solutions in a way to delivers effectively for the users 
• Finding the right mix of COTS and in-house build solutions to deliver the right solution at the right time to ensure long-term business value, security and reliability  
• Define and communicate an effective vision for digitalised work execution, its value and benefit, throughout the organisation and with our stakeholders to create a collaborative and informed end user
• Lead, develop, and mentor a team of product managers with indirect responsibility for additional cross-functional team members
• Lead cross-functional teams in planning, prioritization, and product delivery
• Define and measure business impact, and monitor performance of initiatives and communicate performance metrics to key stakeholders
• Leverage data to understand risks, impacts, scope and priorities of our business objectives, and enable the team to drive results
   

What you'll need

 

• A degree directly related to or transferable to digital delivery and / or the energy system more broadly
• Comfortable in challenging the ‘status quo’ and driving change at an enterprise level
• Demonstrable capability to manage a critical programme / portfolio of digital products to transform business operations
• Experience successfully leading and improving teams that are highly effective both in terms of impact and team culture
• Ability to create a genuine industry leading strategic vision for a critical portfolio and be able to turn that in to tangible and achievable deliverables with a track-record for exceeding expectations
• Ability to get to the root of the problem quickly, develop frontier solution