Assurance Manager in England

The role Assurance Manager – NGET Location: Warwick (Hybrid)

About the Role

Step into a Superpowered opportunity at National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET), where your expertise in assurance and risk will shape the future of the UK’s energy system. As an Assurance Manager, you’ll lead a high-performing team of assurance professionals and play a critical role in strengthening and evolving our risk and control environment. You’ll deliver high-quality second-line assurance that provides independent oversight, meaningful challenge, and value-adding support — ensuring NGET is confident, resilient, and operating at its absolute best. Your work will directly influence strategic outcomes by enabling informed decision-making at every level of the organisation. This role is central to delivering the NGET Assurance Plan, embedding the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Framework across the business, and ensuring our assurance activities generate insight that sparks continual improvement, sharper risk awareness, and more effective controls. If you’re ready to bring your expertise, sharpen our assurance landscape, and elevate NGET’s risk maturity — this is your moment to make a truly Superpowered impact.

What’s in it for you

• A competitive salary between £66,000 - £80,000 per annum – dependent on capability.
• As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus of up to 30% 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, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

What you’ll be up to

• Lead and develop a team of Senior Assurance Specialists, Leads, and Analysts, to deliver high quality second line assurance.
• Build, manage, and deliver the annual second-line assurance programme, reporting outcomes to senior leadership and governance forums.
• Provide expert advice, oversight, support and challenge to the first line on risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and control design.
• Deliver high-quality, timely assurance reports, ensuring findings are well-evidenced, pragmatic, and value-adding.
• Support the Head of Risk & Controls in implementing the controls assurance strategy and embedding the Group risk framework across NGET.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; graduate degree or relevant professional certifications preferred.
• Relevant work experience or equivalent preferred.
• Demonstrated research and analytical skills, including the ability to critically assess multiple perspectives and clearly distill complex issues.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to connect insights to broader themes.
• Strong quantitative capabilities, including the ability to perform complex spreadsheet analysis and to interpret or review analytical work completed by others.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

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 unique differences people 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 that comes with having diverse teams and business need. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve and provide a working environment where everyone feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.