Strategic Director, Digital Strategy & Portfolio Governance

National Grid; Warwick; Hybride; GBP 120 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Performance bonus (up to 40%)

Electric company car or cash allowance

Private Medical Insurance

28 days holiday + bank holidays

Generous pension with 6% matching

Life insurance 10x salary

Cycle scheme

Wellbeing app

Access to Work + Family Space

Résumé du poste

National Grid is seeking a Director of Digital Strategy, Governance and Portfolio to lead the CIDO Office in shaping strategy and driving performance across a large-scale Digital & IT portfolio. You will translate regulatory plans into tangible business outcomes, and partner with the CIDO and senior leaders to ensure delivery of a digital agenda for the UK's critical infrastructure.

You will influence investment priorities, oversee governance, and drive benefits realisation across evolving

Qualifications

• Trusted advisor to Executive and Board-level stakeholders influencing strategy and investment.
• Experience leading large-scale digital and business transformation programmes in complex organisations.
• Expertise in Digital & IT strategy, investment planning, portfolio governance, and benefits realisation.
• Ability to translate objectives and regulatory commitments into clear technology priorities.
• Understanding of emerging tech trends to turn insight into business value.

Responsabilités

• Lead performance across NGET's Digital & IT portfolio, ensuring strategic programmes deliver committed business, regulatory, and financial outcomes.
• Oversee the Digital & IT investment plan across T3 and future regulatory periods, balancing priorities, investment decisions, delivery confidence, and benefits realisation.
• Ensure more than £300m of committed benefits are effectively governed, tracked, and realised, intervening where required to keep delivery on course.
• Drive executive-level governance, enabling data-driven investment decisions that focus resources on the initiatives that create the greatest value.
• Lead regulatory assurance and performance reporting, coordinating Digital & IT contributions into major regulatory submissions and ensuring commitments are robust, evidenced, and deliverable.
• Shape the future direction of Digital & IT by influencing strategy, operating models, governance frameworks, and organisational capability.
• Partner with executive, regulatory, and business stakeholders to resolve complex challenges and navigate trade-offs across affordability, risk, capacity, and value.
• Foster a culture of accountability, performance, and continuous improvement, ensuring Digital & IT delivers sustainable outcomes for the organisation.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the CIDO, helping to strengthen portfolio discipline, enhance strategic decision-making, and drive the successful delivery of enterprise priorities.

Connaissances

Executive advisory

Digital transformation leadership

Digital & IT strategy

Portfolio governance

Benefits realisation

Stakeholder management

Description du poste

National Grid is seeking a Director of Digital Strategy, Governance and Portfolio to lead the CIDO Office in shaping strategy and driving performance across a large-scale Digital & IT portfolio. You will translate regulatory plans into tangible business outcomes, and partner with the CIDO and senior leaders to ensure delivery of a digital agenda for the UK's critical infrastructure.

You will influence investment priorities, oversee governance, and drive benefits realisation across evolving