Digital Product Manager - Waltham, United States - National Grid

National Grid

Verified Company

Waltham, United States

4 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

About us:

Join National Grid's digital transformation We are digital creators, continuous learners and daring innovators. We leverage digital innovative ways to create products and catalyze the transformation of National Grid's business units into more agile and digitally native organizations in our shared purpose of bringing energy to life. Come and join us on this incredible journey, We need you

Job Purpose:

To meet our fossil-free future and effectively support our customers now and in the future, an effective Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Management plan is core of National Grid Electric roadmap.

This will deliver technical and commercial solutions to maximise our network's availability to customers and deliver an effective Distribution System Operator (DSO); whether that's providing effective short, medium and long-term forecasting to optimise generation and low/zero carbon technology operation or delivering commercial arrangements to enable DER to provide network support.

Digital DER Management solutions will revolutionize these activities and this role will take ownership of the development and delivery to enable National Grid to be recognised as the leading US utility to support ours and our customers' net zero ambitions.

What you'll do:

As a Digital Product Manager, you'll oversee a team of product owners who will be responsible for delivering and meeting commitments for the DERMS portfolio.

This will include the definition, planning, and execution of a broad range of outcome-focused products making up a co-ordinated and industry-defining portfolio.

You'll work closely with key New York and New England business stakeholders to build a cohesive strategy & vision, drive the development and delivery of the DERMS portfolio for measurable outcomes.

You'll be a positive disrupter who will lead by example, to effectively use frontier technology, re-imagine business processes and mature agile ways of working to accelerate time to market of solutions and outcomes.

You'll also create an inclusive and energetic environment that thrives on innovation and create diverse high performing team culture.

Key responsibilities include the following:

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 crossfunctional team members
Lead crossfunctional 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

What you'll need:

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 trackrecord 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 buyin for ideas and plans.
Strong technical background, with demonstrated ability to partner effectively with engineering, designers, UX, and data science
Product development and implementation experience within a US energy utility would be hugely valuable

What you'll get:

Consistent growth potential through company leadership programs
Competitive compensation package including robust benefits with a yearly bonus
Numerous wellness programs
A multitude of companyendorsed community programs to participate in

More Information:

Are you the right fit for this exciting role? You want to learn more about the position and National Grid's ambitious Digital Transformation? Then let's chat

Our organization follows a hybrid work structure in our service territory (NY & MA and adjacent states) where employees can work remotely or from the office, as needed.

Working from the office is encouraged when working on tasks that require a high degree of collaboration. We work with our