Strategic Asset Investment Leader

LGBT Jobs; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus up to 30% of salary

Pension with company match (up to 12%)

Share incentive plan

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Technology schemes

Employee assistance lines

Matched charity giving

Job summary

National Grid is recruiting an Asset Group Strategy Manager to lead the newly formed function within Asset Management, owning long-term asset investment strategies and driving evidence-based investment decisions across the network.

Hybrid working across national locations with responsibility for shaping investment priorities, regulatory submissions and stakeholder engagement at senior levels.

Qualifications

• Experience in asset management, asset strategy or investment planning within utilities, energy, infrastructure, water, gas, transport or similarly asset-intensive sectors.
• Strong understanding of risk-based asset management and use of whole-life cost, cost-benefit and value optimisation techniques.
• Experience developing business cases, investment justifications or regulatory submissions that secure funding for major asset programmes.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to balance performance, risk, cost and stakeholder outcomes.
• Experience leading and developing multidisciplinary professional teams.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills at senior levels across complex organisations.
• A degree in engineering, STEM, economics or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Membership of a relevant professional institution.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of long-term asset group strategies that drive investment decisions across National Grid's transmission asset portfolio.
• Build and lead a multidisciplinary team of asset managers and analysts, creating a high-performing culture focused on delivering strategic outcomes.
• Develop and maintain risk and value-based investment portfolios, balancing asset performance, network risk and customer value.
• Use asset data, lifecycle insights and analytical tools to identify priorities and optimise investment across multiple asset groups.
• Deploy robust approaches to whole-life cost modelling, cost-benefit analysis and investment appraisal, ensuring decisions are evidence-based and consistent.
• Own the long-term view of asset intervention priorities, ensuring emerging risks, new information and changing network needs are reflected in investment plans.
• Lead the preparation of investment business cases and regulatory submissions, clearly justifying need, value for money and strategic benefit.
• Proactively build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across Asset Management, Engineering, Operations and external regulatory bodies.
• Provide assurance, confidence and transparency across investment decision-making processes and supporting evidence.
• Help shape a new strategic capability that will transform how asset investment decisions are developed, prioritised and justified across the business.

Skills

Asset management

Risk-based management

Business cases

Commercial awareness

Team leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Engineering degree

Professional membership

Education

Engineering/STEM/Economics degree

Professional institution membership

Job description

National Grid is recruiting an Asset Group Strategy Manager to lead the newly formed function within Asset Management, owning long-term asset investment strategies and driving evidence-based investment decisions across the network.

Hybrid working across national locations with responsibility for shaping investment priorities, regulatory submissions and stakeholder engagement at senior levels.