Director of Digital Strategy, Governance and Portfolio

Director of Digital Strategy, Governance and Portfolio

About us

At National Grid, we keep people connected and society moving. But it’s so much more than that. National Grid provides the environment, support, and purpose that enable us to make real impact. As we drive momentum in the energy transition for all, we’re committed to ensuring none of our customers are left in the dark.

So, join us as a Director of Digital Strategy, Governance and Portfolio and find your superpower.

National Grid is hiring a Director of Digital Strategy, Governance and Portfolio to join our team in Warwick or London, with hybrid working. You'll play a key role in leading portfolio planning, prioritisation, and governance, ensuring strategic initiatives are aligned to business objectives and deliver maximum value across the organisation.

About The Role

This is a unique opportunity to lead the CIDO Office, the strategic function at the heart of NGET’s Digital & IT organisation. Acting as a trusted partner to the Chief Information & Digital Officer (CIDO), you'll play a pivotal role in shaping strategy, driving performance, and ensuring delivery of a digital agenda that supports one of the UK’s most critical infrastructure organisations.

You'll be responsible for translating current and future regulatory investment plans, including T3 and subsequent regulatory periods, into tangible business, regulatory and financial outcomes. Working across a complex stakeholder landscape, you'll orchestrate Digital & IT contributions to major regulatory submissions, ensuring commitments, evidence, dependencies and value cases are aligned, compelling and deliverable.

This is a highly visible leadership role, offering the opportunity to influence investment decisions, drive benefits realisation, assure delivery performance, and help shape the future of NGET's digital transformation journey.

What You'll Do

As Director of Digital Strategy, Governance and Portfolio, you'll sit at the centre of NGET's Digital & IT organisation, ensuring our most critical investments deliver measurable value for the business, customers, and the UK's energy future. Working closely with the CIDO and senior leaders across the organisation, you'll drive performance, shape strategy, and provide the governance needed to successfully deliver a complex and ambitious technology agenda.

In this role, you will:

• Lead performance across NGET's Digital & IT portfolio, ensuring strategic programmes deliver committed business, regulatory, and financial outcomes.
• Oversee the Digital & IT investment plan across T3 and future regulatory periods, balancing priorities, investment decisions, delivery confidence, and benefits realisation.
• Ensure more than £300m of committed benefits are effectively governed, tracked, and realised, intervening where required to keep delivery on course.
• Drive executive-level governance, enabling data-driven investment decisions that focus resources on the initiatives that create the greatest value.
• Lead regulatory assurance and performance reporting, coordinating Digital & IT contributions into major regulatory submissions and ensuring commitments are robust, evidenced, and deliverable.
• Shape the future direction of Digital & IT by influencing strategy, operating models, governance frameworks, and organisational capability.
• Partner with executive, regulatory, and business stakeholders to resolve complex challenges and navigate trade-offs across affordability, risk, capacity, and value.
• Foster a culture of accountability, performance, and continuous improvement, ensuring Digital & IT delivers sustainable outcomes for the organisation.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the CIDO, helping to strengthen portfolio discipline, enhance strategic decision-making, and drive the successful delivery of enterprise priorities.

This is a highly visible leadership role that offers the opportunity to influence executive decision-making, shape major investment programmes, and play a key role in delivering the digital capabilities that will support the future of National Grid.

About You

We're looking for a strategic and influential leader who can operate at the highest levels of the organisation, bringing together technology, business, regulatory, and investment priorities to drive meaningful outcomes.

You’ll be comfortable partnering with senior executives and navigating complex stakeholder environments, with the credibility and leadership presence to shape decision-making, influence investment priorities, and drive performance across a large-scale enterprise portfolio.

To be successful in this role, you’ll bring:

• A proven track record of operating as a trusted advisor to Executive and Board-level stakeholders, influencing strategic direction, investment decisions, and organisational performance.
• Extensive experience leading large-scale digital, technology, and business transformation programmes within complex organisations.
• Strong expertise in Digital & IT strategy, investment planning, portfolio governance, organisational performance, and benefits realisation.
• The ability to translate business objectives, regulatory commitments, and market dynamics into clear and actionable technology and investment priorities.
• A strong understanding of emerging technology, digital, data, and portfolio management trends, with the ability to turn insight into tangible business value.
• Experience working across highly matrixed organisations, building alignment and driving outcomes through influence, collaboration, and effective stakeholder management.
• A track record of managing significant investment portfolios, ensuring financial discipline, delivery performance, benefits realisation, and long‑term value creation.

Most importantly, you'll be a strategic thinker, an exceptional relationship builder, and a natural leader who thrives in complex environments and is motivated by the opportunity to shape the future direction of Digital & IT at National Grid.

What You'll Get

Competitive Salary based on capability, and experience

• Annual performance incentive: Earn up to 40% of eligible earnings through our performance‑related bonus scheme
• Fully electric company car or cash alternative
• Private Medical Insurance for you, with the option to purchase cover for your partner or family through MyBenefits

Additional benefits:

• 28 days’ holiday plus 8 statutory bank holidays, with the option to buy additional leave and swap up to 3 bank holidays to better fit your personal needs.
• A generous pension scheme with double matching up to 6% of your salary each month. For every £1 you contribute, we’ll contribute £2 — meaning a 6% personal contribution becomes an 18% total pension contribution.
• Life insurance cover of 10x your basic salary
• Flexible benefits such as a cycle scheme, share incentive plan, technology schemes
• Access to apps such as digital GP service for round the clock access to GP video consultations and NHS repeat prescriptions, wellbeing app to support your health and fitness
• Access to Work + Family Space, providing support and resources for work and family life, including paid emergency childcare and eldercare

More Information

• This role is offered on a full time basis.
• Based in Warwick or London, with hybrid working with occasional travel to other offices as needed to collaborate with wider teams and stakeholders.
• This role closes on 19th October, however we strongly encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible.

We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates – we make appointments purely on merit, assessed against objective selection criteria. We support flexible working and will make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process should you have any physical or mental impairment which may affect your ability to participate in the process.

Please note that in most cases, National Grid is unable to offer sponsorship for employment under the UK points-based immigration system. As such, applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship now or in the future under the UK points-based immigration system. However, in exceptional circumstances where there is a clear and demonstrable need for specialist skills that cannot be sourced from the local labour market, National Grid may consider offering sponsorship. All applications are welcome from candidates who meet these requirements, regardless of race, nationality, or ethnic origin.

National Grid operates in both the UK and US, with a broad portfolio of energy businesses dedicated to providing safe, reliable, and sustainable power.

From electricity and gas transmission to advancing clean energy and modernising grids, our work covers every aspect of the energy system.

Our energy flows through absolutely everything we do

Life here at National Grid is more than just our purpose or our values, it’s everything we put into everything we do. It’s our commitment to diversity and inclusion; how we help our employees learn and grow; and how we partner with and support the communities where we live and work. It’s all this, and so much more.

We leverage our collective strengths to do meaningful BIG work so that we can be at the heart of a fair and affordable energy future.

Your salary is reviewed each year against the market for your role, skills, knowledge and experience.

Incentive

Annual performance plan or bonus (depending on your role) rewards your contribution to our success each year.

Retirement

Generous pension plan with company contributions up to 12%.

Private medical insurance for self and family.

#J-18808-Ljbffr

Full job description from WhatJobs. Apply for this role →