Asset Group Strategy Manager

Overview

As Asset Group Strategy Manager you will lead a newly formed function within Asset Management to shape long-term investment strategies for the electricity transmission portfolio. You will work across Asset Management, Engineering and Operations to ensure decisions are evidence-based, balancing risk and value. The role involves guiding investment priorities, supporting regulatory submissions, and building confidence in funding decisions to sustain reliability and performance. This is a high‑profile leadership opportunity to transform how asset investments are developed and justified.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary 70,000 – 90,000
• Bonus up to 30% of salary
• Contributory pension with up to 12% company contribution
• Share incentive plan
• Salary sacrifice car and technology schemes
• Employee assistance lines and matched charity giving

Responsibilities

• Develop long-term asset group strategies to drive cross-portfolio investments
• Build and lead a multidisciplinary team of asset managers and analysts
• Create risk- and value-based investment portfolios across asset groups
• Leverage asset data, lifecycle insights and analytical tools to prioritise investments
• Apply whole-life cost modelling and cost-benefit analysis for investment appraisal
• Own long-term asset intervention priorities and update plans with new information
• Prepare investment business cases and regulatory submissions with clear value-for-moneyJustification
• Foster senior stakeholder relationships across Asset Management, Engineering, Operations and regulators
• Provide assurance and transparency in investment decision-making processes
• Help shape the new strategic capability for asset investment decisioning

Key requirements

• Significant experience in asset management, asset strategy, or investment planning in asset-intensive sectors
• Strong understanding of risk-based asset management and whole-life cost and value optimisation techniques
• Experience developing business cases, investment justifications or regulatory submissions
• Strong commercial awareness with ability to balance performance, risk, cost and stakeholder outcomes
• Experience leading multidisciplinary professional teams
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills enabling influence at senior levels
• Degree in engineering, STEM, economics or related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Membership of a relevant professional institution

• Strategic thinking
• Stakeholder influence and relationship management
• Collaborative leadership
• Risk-based asset management
• Whole-life cost modelling
• Cost-benefit analysis

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