Business Planning Lead in Cambuslang

Location: Cambuslang

Salary: £55,200, up to 15% bonus and health cover

Flexible Working Pattern

What you’ll be doing

As Business Planning Lead, you will provide a strategic, enterprise-wide view of project delivery across SP Transmission, owning the short-term project pipeline and long-term demand forecast. Working closely with stakeholders across SPT, Network Planning & Regulation and wider functions, you will ensure plans are aligned, accurate and capable of supporting effective business decision-making. You will lead business planning activities by managing project classification, portfolio allocation and key interface reporting, ensuring stakeholders have clear visibility of upcoming activities, dependencies and delivery milestones. By identifying and escalating risks, challenges and interdependencies, you will help optimise planning across areas such as procurement, contracting, workforce deployment, outages and site access.

What you’ll bring

• Prior experience of a business planning or reporting role in a regulatory capacity or other related field.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent in commercial/business subject such as project management.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to negotiate/influence.
• Expertise in reporting and data analysis, with proficiency across a variety of applications and platforms (e.g. PowerBI, MS Office).
• Ability to review and scrutinise integrated data models developed by analysts to feed into enterprise-wide reporting dashboards and files.
• Ability to work with limited supervision and to interact across all levels of management and executive.
• Ability to design new process and governance, while supporting implementation of these across a business unit.
• Understanding and knowledge of energy markets and the regulatory drivers affecting operation of a Transmission Network.
• Excellent presentation skills, with experience in dealing with directors, senior management and officials from government, regulatory bodies and other market participants.
• Ability to effectively lead teams and work in cross functional teams.
• Exceptionally proactive nature, with the ability to innovate and challenge in recognition and support of the business model in which SPT is operating.

What’s in it for you

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday Purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Schemes
• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
• Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network - connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It's a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland's ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we're taking it very seriously. We're investing >£5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

We are one of the main energy companies in the world, a leader in renewables, which champions the energy transition towards a low-emissions economy. We supply energy to nearly 100 million people in dozens of countries and develop its renewable, network and commercial activities in Europe (Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, France, Germany, Italy and Greece), the United States, Brazil and Australia and maintains markets such as Japan and Poland, among others, as growth platforms.

Do you want to be part of the energy of the future? Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in. We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers@scottishpower.com.