National Grid
Transformation Manager
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Passionate Transformation Manager Needed
We’re searching for a passionate Transformation Manager to join our Transformation team!
The Transformation Manager plays a vital key independent role within the team, helping a portfolio of transformation programmes shift from good intent to confident delivery.
This hands-on position is perfect for someone who can bring structure, pace, and constructive challenge—someone who enables teams to translate ambition into clear plans, measurable outcomes, and practical delivery actions.
Working across multiple programmes and collaborating with business stakeholders, the Transformation Manager supports teams in establishing defined milestones, governance frameworks, RAID controls, delivery routines, success measures, and value cases. This role ensures consistency, visibility, and momentum across the portfolio, aligning activity with broader transformation initiatives while empowering business teams to take ownership of change through support, challenge, and practical guidance.
This role is based in our London or Warwick office, with flexibility for at least two days per week on-site. We welcome requests for additional flexibility to support your ideal working arrangements.
What You’ll Do
- Shape and drive high-impact transformation programmes, helping teams turn vision into clear plans, confident delivery, and measurable success.
- Apply structure, pace, and energy to complex work by building strong milestones, delivery routines, governance, RAID controls, and action tracking.
- Provide constructive challenge and practical guidance, ensuring programme teams stay focused, resolve blockers, and keep delivery on track.
- Strengthen portfolio-wide alignment, identifying dependencies, gaps, and opportunities to avoid duplication and enhance joined-up delivery.
- Define key performance indicators (KPIs), success measures, and value cases that demonstrate real progress and impact.
- Foster trusted stakeholder relationships, influencing, coaching, and collaborating to create shared ownership of change.
- Develop clear insights and compelling narratives for leaders to make informed decisions while ensuring teams understand how their work supports broader transformation goals.
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What You’ll Have
Experience & Skills
- Relevant background in project management, transformation, change delivery, business improvement, or portfolio support.
- Proven ability to organise, manage stakeholders, create plans, and communicate effectively across multiple programmes and business units.
- Evidence of supporting transformation, change, or complex delivery programmes in a business environment.
- Strong project management skills, including planning, milestone management, action tracking, dependency analysis, and RAID controls.
- Capability to work with programmes at varying maturity levels, applying structure, clarity, and consistency.
- Proactive self-starter who can identify value-add opportunities, develop actionable work plans, and drive progress independently.
- Exceptional analytical and critical thinking skills to dissect complex issues, identify root causes, and propose practical solutions.
- Confidence in stakeholder engagement, ensuring influence, constructive challenge, and trusted partnerships with business teams.
- Understanding of portfolio delivery principles, programme governance, critical path management, and dependency visibility.
- Ability to connect programme activity with larger transformation aims, spotting opportunities to align plans, share insights, and minimise duplication.
- Strong skill in simplifying complex delivery data for senior stakeholders, providing clear insights, updates, and actionable recommendations.
- Bonus points for experience in regulated, operational, or infrastructure environments.
Diversity & Inclusion Note
If you don’t meet every single requirement—don’t hesitate to apply!
Research shows women and people of colour often only apply if they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we’re committed to diversity, inclusion, and authenticity, and we want you to represent our growing business. Apply even if your experience doesn’t fit exactly—you might be the perfect fit for this role or another one.
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What You’ll Get
- Competitive salary starting at up to £75,000, dependent on experience.
- Bonus structure based on personal and company performance, with a target of 15% (capped at 30%).
- Contributory pension scheme where we double-match your contributions (up to a 12% company cap).
- Flexible benefits, including:
- A share incentive plan.
- Salary-sacrifice schemes for cars and technology.
- Employee assistance support.
- Charity donation matching.
Additional Info
Key Dates
- Closing date: Midnight, 14 July 2026
- Interviews: Scheduled w/c 20 July 2026 onwards
- Encouragement: Apply as early as possible—National Grid often closes vacancies early.
We reserve the right to remove this posting or halt applications at any stage.
About Us
At National Grid, we deliver safe and reliable energy to homes, businesses, and communities. We’re critical when it matters most—connecting people to the energy they need, shaping a sustainable future for our industry.
Energy demands and societal change are accelerating, and our expertise allows us to pioneer lower-cost, flexible energy systems tomorrow while addressing challenges today. Success hinges on anticipating customer needs, reducing costs, and innovating—for both our business and yourself.
We’re dedicated to top-tier standards in people, culture, and delivery. Our goal is to create an environment where employees thrive, innovate, and reach their full potential. We welcome diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered.
Employment decisions are based on skills, insights from diverse teams, and business needs. Our mission is to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve, ensuring a colourful, equitable, and progressive culture where everyone can flourish.
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