Overview
As Asset Group Strategy Manager you will lead a newly formed function within Asset Management to shape long-term investment strategies for the electricity transmission portfolio. You will work across Asset Management, Engineering and Operations to ensure decisions are evidence-based, balancing risk and value. The role involves guiding investment priorities, supporting regulatory submissions, and building confidence in funding decisions to sustain reliability and performance. This is a high‑profile leadership opportunity to transform how asset investments are developed and justified.
Pay / Benefits
- Competitive salary 70,000 – 90,000
- Bonus up to 30% of salary
- Contributory pension with up to 12% company contribution
- Share incentive plan
- Salary sacrifice car and technology schemes
- Employee assistance lines and matched charity giving
Responsibilities
- Develop long-term asset group strategies to drive cross-portfolio investments
- Build and lead a multidisciplinary team of asset managers and analysts
- Create risk- and value-based investment portfolios across asset groups
- Leverage asset data, lifecycle insights and analytical tools to prioritise investments
- Apply whole-life cost modelling and cost-benefit analysis for investment appraisal
- Own long-term asset intervention priorities and update plans with new information
- Prepare investment business cases and regulatory submissions with clear value-for-moneyJustification
- Foster senior stakeholder relationships across Asset Management, Engineering, Operations and regulators
- Provide assurance and transparency in investment decision-making processes
- Help shape the new strategic capability for asset investment decisioning
Key requirements
- Significant experience in asset management, asset strategy, or investment planning in asset-intensive sectors
- Strong understanding of risk-based asset management and whole-life cost and value optimisation techniques
- Experience developing business cases, investment justifications or regulatory submissions
- Strong commercial awareness with ability to balance performance, risk, cost and stakeholder outcomes
- Experience leading multidisciplinary professional teams
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills enabling influence at senior levels
- Degree in engineering, STEM, economics or related discipline, or equivalent experience
- Membership of a relevant professional institution
- Strategic thinking
- Stakeholder influence and relationship management
- Collaborative leadership
- Risk-based asset management
- Whole-life cost modelling
- Cost-benefit analysis
Asset Group Strategy Manager in Warwick employer: National Grid
At National Grid, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration. With competitive salaries, generous bonuses, and a robust pension scheme, we ensure our employees are well rewarded for their contributions. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion, along with flexible working arrangements, empowers our team members to thrive both personally and professionally in the heart of the UK's energy sector.
