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Lead GIS Manager - Great Grid Partnership (GGP)
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Lead GIS Manager – Great Grid Partnership (GGP)
About the Role
Shape the future of digital infrastructure at scale
We’re looking to appoint a Lead GIS Manager to drive the strategy, systems and delivery of geospatial capability across the Great Grid Partnership (GGP)—one of the UK’s most ambitious infrastructure programmes.
Too often, GIS delivery is fragmented across projects, lacking consistency and scalability. In this senior leadership role, you’ll define and implement a GIS strategy, ensuring seamless, high-quality geospatial delivery across multiple complex, large-scale projects.
This is a role for someone with a digital transformation mindset and continuous improvement drive, pushing forward systemic clarity while balancing evolving stakeholder needs.
This position offers hybrid working with regular travel across the Midlands for team alignment, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement.
What You’ll Do
** Strategic Leadership & Alignment**
- Lead the implementation of the GGP’s GIS strategy, ensuring NGSI (National Grid’s Strategic Infrastructure) ambition is met
- Set the technical direction for GIS capability (web, desktop, enterprise) across all live and future programmes
- Define and embed GIS standards, processes and data governance across the entire Strategic Infrastructure programme
** Operational & Delivery Oversight**
- Oversee delivery of shared GIS platforms, data standards and workflows alongside IT Governance & Architecture
- Engage with projects, partners, andintegrators to gather requirements and align ways of working, minimising duplication and silos
- Ensure consistent, contractually aligned GIS deliverables are met across all projects
- Drive maturity in geospatial information management, embedding best practice across teams
** Technological & Cross-Disciplinary Integration**
- Lead the integration of GIS with wider digital systems, platforms, and data environments
- Advance the use of ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online (AGOL) as critical components of the GIS ecosystem
- Ensure GIS aligns with BIM and Information Management, supporting collaborative data-driven decision-making
- Manage risks, opportunities, and benefits linked to GIS and digital delivery across projects/risk registers
** People & Governance**
- Manage and develop a team of GIS specialists, providing technical leadership
- Support digital governance by reporting progress, risks and opportunities to senior stakeholders
- Foster a culture of collaborative problem-solving to improve cross-project delivering standards
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Who You’ll Work With
You’ll collaborate across a multi-disciplinary digital and project ecosystem, including:
- Digital and BIM leadership teams
- Senior GIS, BIM, and Information Management professionals
- NGSI GIS & Digital teams
- IT Governance and Architecture for scalable technological alignment
- GGP programme partners and integrators to co-align workflows and standards
What You’ll Bring
Experience & Expertise
- Proven leadership in managing GIS teams and large-scale programmes, driving efficiency and effectiveness
- A strong track record delivering GIS strategy within complicated infrastructure environments (utilities, transport, or energy preferred)
- Deep expertise in enterprise GIS systems, including:
- ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online (AGOL) commercial deployments at scale
- Integration with GIS tools/data standards across organisations
- Experience defining user-focused GIS solutions that prioritise accessibility and intuitive use
- Project delivery excellence: managing timelines, budgets, and resources under tight deadlines
- Exceptional stakeholder management, translating technical requirements into actionable steps
Technical & Strategic Skills
- Strong proficiency with:
- Geographic InformationStandards (ISO, OGC, ESRI, etc.)
- Cost benefit analysis of GIS investments vs. programme business outcomes
- Data governance frameworks to ensure accuracy, consistency and availability
- A commercial awareness of investment cases to drive competitive geospatial delivery methods
Certifications
- Degree (or equivalent) in GIS, Geography, Engineering, IT or related field (Pink book / Royal GIS recognised studies preferred)
- Chartered status (e.g. RGS-IBG, BCS, or Engineering Council UK)
What You’ll Get
Competitive Reward Package
- Salary: £70,000 to £85,000 (braced to capability)
- Annual performance bonus: Up to 30% of eligible earnings in the relevant financial year
- Leave: 28 days plus 8 statutory days
- Optional extras: Buy or swap holiday days
Professional Growth Support
- Generous pension match: Up to 12% of company contribution (we double your contributions)
- Professional development funding: Covering subscriptions, course fees, technical books, relevant exams and study leave
- Area of Growth: Learners in approved new skills can access support at strategic levels
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Lifestyle & Wellbeing
- Flexible benefit options: Salary sacrifice car lease schemes, tech discounts, health and wellness apps
- Family care support: Back-up care service (up to six paid days per year, purchasable)
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for mental and financial support
Why This Role Matters
You’ll be at the forefront of shaping critical infrastructure decisions—ensuring geospatial data powers evidence-based decisions across the UK’s grid. This isn’t just about managing systems; it’s about supporting smarter energy solutions at scale, reducing reliance on imported fuels, and propelling National Grid towards a more secure, net zero future.
Your work will lead to:
- Faster, more informed decision-making for projects
- Streamlined, consistent geospatial capabilities across all infrastructure programmes
- Lasting impact on the nation’s energy resilience and clean energy goals
About Us
National Grid Strategic Infrastructure (NGSI) is transforming the UK’s energy infrastructure over the next five years. By 2030, we’ll have 17 major new projects up and running across England, Scotland, and Wales. This future energy system will harness clean, home-grown power and futureproof energy security.
At the heart of our mission is connecting millions of homeowners, schools, and businesses reliably, efficiently—for the long term. We’re wiring the nation towards a smarter grid.
As we progress to a zero-carbon future, your role will support at-scale cellularisation of renewables, microgrids, and data-driven optimisation—you’ll be at the heart of powering the UK’s clean tomorrow.
Closing & Policy Notes
This role closes 9 July 2026, 23:59pm. Applications made sooner are welcome.
Leadership equates to inclusion and transparency. National Grid is committed to addressing modern working pressures and welcomes all candidates, including those requiring flexibility or reasonable adjustments.
UK Work Authorization Requirement: Applicants must possess the right to work legally in the UK without sponsorship. In exceptional circumstances where specialists cannot be sourced locally, we may consider sponsorship.
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