Lead Business Strategist

About Us

National Grid is hiring a Lead, Digital Business Strategist for our Digital Solutions team in New York and can sit in either Syracuse, NY, Albany, NY, or Brooklyn, NY.

Job Purpose

The scope of this role will be within the New York Electric Network Operations Product Line, which is responsible for successfully enabling our critical control center and meter data capabilities. The Digital Business Strategist is responsible for supporting business and operations work streams within a multi-disciplinary digital product team structure. They partner closely to execute several activities, such as identifying assumptions, building the value case, defining the future-state process vision, executing change management plans, etc.

Key Accountabilities

• Support strategic planning process and define business future state vision based on stakeholder input and industry trends
• Define future-state operations solutions and lead gap assessments (incl. people, process, tech, data, regulatory)
• Drive digital product planning by coordinating business capability assessments, product design, and roadmapping with cross-functional teams
• Build relationships with business stakeholders and represent their needs and priorities by defining business requirements to be addressed by digital solutions
• Develop business cases, including value projections and detailed investment estimates, and track objectives and key results to assess benefit realization of products
• Support business/operation work stream team, participating in Agile sprints, guiding prioritization, and driving progress throughout product lifecycles
• Support change mgmt. and product release plans, with help from the change mgmt. team as needed
• Identify and escalate risks to delivering on-time, on-budget, and in line with desired outcomes and lead risk mitigation efforts to optimize value
• Prepare materials for key stakeholder readouts (e.g., Digital Board meetings) and regulatory engagements

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, engineering or relevant field
• 5-8 years relevant business experience, such as product management, digital transformation, and strategic business planning
• Preferred: Experience working with/within electric utilities, DER developers, and/or utility technology providers – electric utility operations experience highly preferred
• Experience in Agile product or project management
• Excellent analytical problem solving and strategic thinking skills

Pay

• Upstate - $136,000 - $159,000 a year
• Downstate - $163,000 - $191,000 a year