About us
Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry.
To be successful we must continue to anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business.
IT and Digital works seamlessly to support and facilitate the National Grid group of diverse energy businesses to deliver technology which revolutionises the way we operate. As we lead the charge towards a carbon-free future, our teams are pioneering disruptive changes to our industry by working with agile methodologies and adopting digital mind-sets to drive efficiency, effectiveness and bring new capabilities for our internal and external customers.
Our work here is critical. National Grid moves energy to millions of homes and businesses in the UK and US and the technology we utilise to complete that task is down to us. This role is at the centre of facilitating the energy revolution and enabling National Grid to continue to be a leading multi-national energy company. It's imperative that you have a passion for energy and solving the problems of today, tomorrow and beyond to ensure a secure, reliable and accessible energy system for all.
The successful applicant for this position will be an integral contributor towards this goal and we will support your professional development as part of our multi-cultural, customer-centric global team.
National Grid is hiring a Digitial Product Manager- ADMS. This is a hybrid position located in Waltham, MA , Syracuse, or Brooklyn, NY.
Job Purpose
ADMS Product Manager is primarily responsible for leading the design, deployment, and maintenance the new Electric advanced management distribution system. ADMS system will be able to control our field devices such as line reclosers, capacitor banks and gather information from all SCADA enabled assets. This ability will enable our Advanced Distribution Management (ADMS) to estimate real-time situation awareness and automatically operate the distribution system.
The ability to automate operations in real-time is a stepping stone to centralized Grid Automation transition. The ADMS product will integrate with many other grid modernization platforms to manage the utilization of our distribution system. Solar generation, energy storage, electrification of transportation are some technologies that ADMS will centrally manage to maximize their dispatch utilization in real-time. DSCADA will increasingly become a mission critical system for the future of the electric grid.
Key Accountabilities
* Partner with business stakeholders to define and align business and product vision and strategy.
* Define and communicate an effective vision for digitalised work execution, its value and benefit, throughout the organisation and with our stakeholders to create a collaborative and informed end user experience.
* Lead, develop, and mentor a team of product owners with indirect responsibility for additional cross-functional team members
* Lead cross-functional teams in planning, prioritization, and product delivery
* Define and measure business impact, and monitor performance of initiatives and communicate performance metrics to key stakeholders
* Leverage data to understand risks, impacts, scope and priorities of our business objectives, and enable the team to drive results
Qualifications
* A degree directly related to or transferable to digital delivery and / or the energy system more broadly
* Comfortable in challenging the 'status quo' and driving change at an enterprise level
* Demonstrable capability to manage a critical programme / portfolio of digital products to transform business operations
* Experience successfully leading and improving teams that are highly effective both in terms of impact and team culture
* Ability to create a industry leading strategic vision for a critical portfolio and be able to turn that in to tangible and achievable deliverables with a track-record for exceeding expectations
* Ability to get to the root of the problem quickly, develop frontier solutions in collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders and communicate that effectively to all levels within the organisations and beyond
* Strong communication skills with an ability to successfully navigate a complex organization and generate and maintain buy-in for ideas and plans.
* Strong technical background, with demonstrated ability to partner effectively with engineering, designers, UX, and data science
* Having previous product development and implementation experience within a US energy utility would be hugely valuable
More Information
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Salary
Waltham: $162k - $191k a year
Brooklyn: $173k - $204k a year
Syracuse: $145k - $170k a year
This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.
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National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience and expertise. We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.
