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Job Description

The Business Planning Lead is responsible for implementing, maintaining and continuously improving a means of providing a forward-looking view of business activity across SPT. This view will then be used to inform business critical activities include procurement planning, strategic workforce planning and network site access & outages.

The Business Planning Lead will be working in conjunction with several multi-disciplined PMO teams and SPT departments to serve as the liaison around visibility needs of business activities. They will support the SPEN business interface with key stakeholders, including the SPT Executive Team and Network Policy & Regulation (NP&R) ensuring proactive visibility of all business activities to support business-wide optimisation.

What you'll be doing

As Business Planning Lead, you will provide a strategic, enterprise-wide view of project delivery across SP Transmission, owning the short-term project pipeline and long-term demand forecast. Working closely with stakeholders across SPT, Network Planning & Regulation and wider functions, you will ensure plans are aligned, accurate and capable of supporting effective business decision-making.

You will lead business planning activities by managing project classification, portfolio allocation and key interface reporting, ensuring stakeholders have clear visibility of upcoming activities, dependencies and delivery milestones. By identifying and escalating risks, challenges and interdependencies, you will help optimise planning across areas such as procurement, contracting, workforce deployment, outages and site access.

What you'll bring

• Prior experience of a business planning or reporting role in a regulatory capacity or other related field.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent in commercial/business subject such as project management.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to negotiate/influence.
• Expertise in reporting and data analysis, with proficiency across a variety of applications and platforms (e.g. PowerBI, MS Office).
• Ability to review and scrutinise integrated data models developed by analysts to feed into enterprise-wide reporting dashboards and files.
• Ability to work with limited supervision and to interact across all levels of management and executive.
• Ability to design new process and governance, while supporting implementation of these across a business unit.
• Understanding and knowledge of energy markets and the regulatory drivers affecting operation of a Transmission Network.
• Excellent presentation skills, with experience in dealing with directors, senior management and officials from government, regulatory bodies and other market participants.
• Ability to effectively lead teams and work in cross functional teams.
• Exceptionally proactive nature, with the ability to innovate and challenge in recognition and support of the business model in which SPT is operating.

What's in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action - our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world - today and tomorrow. That's why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday Purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Schemes
• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
• Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network - connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It's a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland's ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we're taking it very seriously.

We're investing >£5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.

We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected].

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.