Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry.

To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business

National Grid is building a new team, ngDigital, to provide best-in-class digital delivery. The Digital team will comprise of two hubs, one in the US (Boston) and one in the UK (Birmingham) and will build digital products that create strategic value in a fast and agile manner. In addition to creating digital products, the ngDigital hubs are talent incubators that will disseminate digital capabilities and culture within National Grid.

The Business Strategist oversees and manages the product's business case, value creation and influences the prioritization of product features based on the business case. The role will also any lead change business management activities required for product adoption.

• Building the business case for the concept:
  • Understands the value levers & product cost
  • Builds out the holistic end-to-end business case for a concept
• Communicating with product team on the biggest value creation levers for the product
  • Ensures product is creating value as it develops and continually updates the business case
  • Updates the business case based on feedback from team (via customers & engineers)
• Communicates with the sprint team on how the product is evolving based feedback from customers (product features) and engineers (technical capability)
• Works with the business units to acquire domain expertise and help navigate the business to unlock value

• Works with Strategic Designers:
  • To understand feedback coming from customers/users & quantify the impact for the business case, and influences the design of the product so the product is focused on the value creating levers
  • Design experiments to further test the product
• Ensures Product owner is prioritizing the most value-creating features; Business Strategist should quantify value by feature
• Stays connected with Engineers and understand what's technically feasible and what's not
• Collaborate with business unit to navigate organization to help team create value

• Bachelor's degree
• Deep expertise in business case modeling
• Understands business value levers, is able to take high level business concepts and turn them into tangible value cases
• Ability to articulate different changes in product / design needs
• Able to work collaboratively with cross functional teams
• Able to solve problems with agility
• Able to distill a lot of information into a consumable format for variety of audiences
• Able to communicate effectively to senior stakeholdrs

This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Internal candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.

National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience and expertise. We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.