SSE plc
Senior Delivery Lead
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Base Location: You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations: Glasgow, Perth, Aberdeen, or Inverness
Salary: £68,100 - £102,100 + car allowance, performance-related bonus, and a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing, and family.
Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available
The Role
SSEN-Transmission is delivering a significant Data Driven investment programme as part of RIIO-T3, enabling our ambition to become a data-driven leader in electricity transmission. The programme will significantly improve how data is managed, governed, shared, and utilised across the business, creating trusted, integrated, and automated data capabilities that support efficient network operations and growth, improved decision-making, automation, and AI adoption.
Reporting to the Data Driven Programme Manager, the Senior Project Delivery Lead will be responsible for leading the successful delivery of a portfolio of strategic data initiatives that underpin our Data Strategy. The programme is based around the four pillars of that strategy: Data & AI literacy, Fit for Purpose Data Formats, Data Management and Governance, and Data Products. The role will ensure projects achieve their objectives, deliver measurable business value, and are completed on time and within budget while fostering strong relationships across business, technical, and supplier teams.
You Will
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of multiple strategic data projects across the RIIO-T3 Data Driven Programme to deliver the agreed business outcomes while ensuring projects meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives.
- Identify, manage, and resolve risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery blockers across projects and business areas.
- Establish and maintain effective project governance, reporting, and stakeholder communications, providing clear insight to programme leadership and governance boards.
- Manage third-party suppliers and delivery partners, holding them accountable for performance, quality, and value delivery.
- Partner with the business and technical teams, industry stakeholders, data, and product owners to shape delivery roadmaps and prioritise objectives.
- Support business change, adoption, and continuous improvement activities to ensure solutions deliver sustainable benefits and operational value, and alignment with strategic objectives and RIIO-T3 commitments.
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You Have
- Proven experience delivering data or digital projects as part of major programmes, preferably within utilities, infrastructure, engineering, or regulated industries.
- Experience delivering data-focused initiatives, such as data governance, master data management, data literacy, reporting, analytics, AI, or enterprise data programmes.
- Strong programme and project delivery expertise, including governance, financial management, planning, risk management, supplier management, and benefits realisation.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to operate effectively across executive, business, and technical audiences.
- A strategic, outcome-focused mindset, able to translate business objectives into executable delivery plans while driving accountability, continuous improvement, and measurable business value.
About SSE
SSE’s purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating, and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030.
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Flexible Benefits To Fit Your Life
- Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships.
- Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service.
- Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme.
- Generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.
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SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact David.Brickell@sse.com / 01738 275 846 to discuss how we can support you.
We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.
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