Asset Group Strategy Manager

Role overview

What you'll do

• Lead long-term asset group strategies across the transmission asset portfolio.
• Build and lead a multidisciplinary team of asset managers and analysts.
• Develop risk- and value-based portfolios balancing asset performance, network risk, and customer value.
• Use asset data, lifecycle insights, and analytical tools to optimize investment priorities.
• Apply whole-life cost modelling, cost-benefit analysis, and investment appraisal.
• Maintain long-term intervention priorities as risks, information, and network needs change.
• Lead investment business cases and regulatory submissions, justifying need, value for money, and strategic benefit.
• Engage senior stakeholders across Asset Management, Engineering, Operations, and external regulatory bodies.
• Provide assurance and transparency in investment decisions and supporting evidence.
• Shape the strategic capability for prioritizing and justifying asset investment.

About you

• Significant experience in asset management, asset strategy, or investment planning in an asset-intensive sector.
• Strong understanding of risk-based asset management, whole-life cost, cost-benefit, and value-optimisation techniques.
• Experience with funding business cases, investment justifications, or regulatory submissions for major asset programmes.
• Commercial awareness and ability to balance performance, risk, cost, and stakeholder outcomes.
• Experience leading and developing multidisciplinary professional teams.
• Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders in complex organizations.
• Degree in engineering, STEM, economics, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Membership of a relevant professional institution.

Beneficial experience and knowledge

• Regulated utility experience is beneficial.
• Knowledge of electricity transmission assets and intervention strategies is beneficial.
• Chartered status or equivalent accreditation is beneficial.
• Knowledge of Network Asset Risk Metric methodologies is beneficial.
• Experience with economic regulation, price-control submissions, or regulatory funding mechanisms is beneficial.

Workplace

• Hybrid working; the role may be based from any National Grid national location.