Lead Business Strategist

natgridProd • Town of Colonie, NY

9d • $136,000 - $191,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

National Grid is hiring a Lead, Digital Business Strategist for their Digital Solutions team. This role will focus on enabling critical control center and meter data capabilities within the New York Electric Network Operations Product Line. The Digital Business Strategist will support business and operations work streams within a multi-disciplinary digital product team, identifying assumptions, building value cases, defining future-state processes, and executing change management plans. The Digital Solutions organization partners with National Grid's diverse energy businesses to deliver technology that revolutionizes operations, embracing Agile methodologies and digital mindsets to drive efficiency and new capabilities for customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, engineering or relevant field
• 5-8 years relevant business experience, such as product management, digital transformation, and strategic business planning
• Strong interest in the utility industry and energy transition
• Experience working across cross-functional teams and managing broad groups of stakeholders
• Ability to think strategically and present a compelling vision that represents stakeholder perspectives
• Ability to assess and document current state operations, identify customer/user pain points, and help translate business needs into product requirements
• Ability to design future-state processes and solutions that address user frictions, including articulating any changes needed to reach the future-state process
• Ability to build and refine a product business case, including benefits (financial, non-financial, strategic) and costs
• Knowledge of digital product implementation fundamentals and Agile product or project management
• Ability to execute change management and product release plans, including communications plan, user adoption strategy, etc.
• Ability to perform data analytics and communicate meaningful insights from data
• Ability to create and present compelling materials to senior stakeholders from different organizations

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with/within electric utilities, DER developers, and/or utility technology providers – electric utility operations experience highly preferred
• Experience in Agile product or project management
• Excellent analytical problem solving and strategic thinking skills

Responsibilities

• Support strategic planning process and define business future state vision based on stakeholder input and industry trends
• Define future-state operations solutions and lead gap assessments (incl. people, process, tech, data, regulatory)
• Drive digital product planning by coordinating business capability assessments, product design, and roadmapping with cross-functional teams
• Build relationships with business stakeholders and represent their needs and priorities by defining business requirements to be addressed by digital solutions
• Develop business cases, including value projections and detailed investment estimates, and track objectives and key results to assess benefit realization of products
• Support business/operation work stream team, participating in Agile sprints, guiding prioritization, and driving progress throughout product lifecycles
• Support change mgmt. and product release plans, with help from the change mgmt. team as needed
• Provide support to product & technical workstreams (e.g., RFP support, process mapping, stakeholder mgmt., value alignment, PMO & governance)
• Identify and escalate risks to delivering on-time, on-budget, and in line with desired outcomes and lead risk mitigation efforts to optimize value
• Prepare materials for key stakeholder readouts (e.g., Digital Board meetings) and regulatory engagements

Benefits

• National Grid is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of protected class. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. National Grid maintains affirmative action programs for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. Our employment practices are designed to ensure that all individuals are treated fairly and with respect throughout the hiring process and during employment. National Grid complies with all applicable federal, state, and local anti-discrimination laws. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination and harassment, and we encourage a culture of respect for all.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior