Senior Strategy Manager

SSEN Transmission; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 66,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company in the UK seeks two Senior Strategy Managers to shape its long-term strategy and business plan. These roles will lead the development of strategic direction in a collaborative environment, focusing on investment governance and market insight. Candidates should possess strong industry knowledge and experience in commercial strategy development. This full-time position offers a competitive salary and flexible working options.

Benefits

Private healthcare discounts

Gym membership discounts

Wellbeing benefits like free online GP

Generous family entitlements

Qualifications

• Proven capability in shaping and implementing investment plans.
• Ability to analyze and convert insights into recommendations.
• Experience leading analytical excellence in teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and refinement of strategic direction.
• Coordinate strategic inputs across directorates and resolve inconsistencies.
• Identify and develop new strategic opportunities in energy markets.

Skills

Strong industry knowledge of energy economics

Experience in developing business strategy

Commercial and analytical capability

Excellent written and verbal communication

Experience in leading high-performing teams

Job description

Base Location: For this role, we require successful applicants to be based from one of our Scottish locations where you'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in the office – Perth, Glasgow, Aberdeen or Inverness

Salary: £66,100-£99,100 + car / allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

Roles

We’re looking for two experienced, adaptable and strategically minded Senior Strategy Managers to help shape SSEN Transmission’s long-term direction. While each role has a distinct focus - one leading our Strategy development and strategic insight, the other leading our 10 Year Business Plan and investment governance — both positions work at the heart of our enterprise-level decision making.

Senior Strategy Manager – Development & Insight

This role leads the development of SSEN Transmission’s enterprise strategy, secures organisation wide buy-in, and ensures our strategic priorities are effectively implemented. You will work closely with senior colleagues to define the organisation’s direction, support the Transmission Executive Committee (TEC) in identifying priorities, and ensure strategy is translated into meaningful actions and outcomes across all directorates. You will also lead our market intelligence and strategic foresight function, ensuring SSEN Transmission’s strategy and business plan are informed by robust, relevant and forward looking insight.

Senior Strategy Manager – Investment Planning

This role leads the development and governance of SSEN Transmission’s 10 Year Business Plan, ensuring decisions are grounded in robust, data driven evidence. You will work with teams across the business to shape the central plan, steward early stage investment governance, and provide strategic insight to inform enterprise level decision making, particularly around future growth opportunities.

You will

• In partnership with subject matter experts, lead the development, integration and ongoing refinement of our long-term strategic direction, whether shaping the enterprise strategy or governing the 10 Year Business Plan. You’ll ensure scenarios and assumptions reflect system needs, policy and regulatory changes, synthesising strategic, operational and financial intelligence into coherent recommendations approved by senior leadership and the TEC.
• Coordinate and align strategic inputs across directorates, resolving inconsistencies, ensuring compliance with regulatory guidance, and supporting both early stage investment governance and organisation wide strategic planning. You’ll evaluate proposals against readiness criteria, assess commercial and operational impacts, and provide rigorous recommendations to decision making bodies.
• Apply market, policy, regulatory and commercial analysis to assess impacts on strategy and the investment portfolio, identifying implications for our capital programme and strategic priorities. You will maintain strong external networks, use competitor and scenario analysis, and bring high quality foresight into SSEN Transmission’s strategic direction.
• Lead the identification and development of new strategic or commercial opportunities, from shaping enterprise level goals to building a pipeline of medium and long term growth options. You’ll coordinate cross-functional teams, explore new markets, develop evidence based policy positions, and produce high quality papers and presentations for the TEC and Board.
• Provide leadership and development to a high performing team in a collaborative matrix environment, fostering analytical excellence, strategic curiosity and enterprise wide alignment. You’ll support the translation of strategy into meaningful actions by setting priorities, monitoring performance, and ensuring strong governance and advocacy both internally and externally.

You have

• Strong industry knowledge including SSE’s markets, energy economics and SSEN Transmission’s role in the GB energy system, with proven capability in developing and implementing meaningful business strategy, whether organisation wide or investment focused.
• Experience shaping strategy or investment plans end to end, from problem identification and evidence gathering, through option development and appraisal, to securing organisational buy-in and delivering high quality outputs to time and standard.
• Strong commercial and analytical capability, able to interpret market, policy, regulatory and macro-trend developments, use structured frameworks to assess strategic risks, and apply sound judgement under uncertainty. You can convert insight into clear, evidence based recommendations that influence senior stakeholders.
• Ability to translate high level strategy or long term plans into clear business actions, equipping teams and senior management with the insight needed to make confident, well informed decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to shape compelling narratives, represent the business externally, and influence decision makers at all levels.
• Experience leading and developing high performing teams, coaching analytical excellence and enabling effective cross-functional collaboration to embed consistent, enterprise wide alignment.

About SSE

SSE’s purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030.

SSEN Transmission own and operate the electricity transmission network across the north of Scotland. We transport energy from where it is generated to where it is needed, ensuring a safe and reliable electricity supply for the communities we serve. But that's not all – we're upgrading the grid to deliver cleaner, homegrown energy

Flexible Benefits To Fit Your Life

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

Work with an equal opportunity employer

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact [e-mail] / 01738 351671 to discuss how we can support you. We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.

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