At Peregrine, we’re proud to be recruiting on behalf of our client who are dedicated to connecting Britain to leading smarter, greener lives.
Here you will have the power to challenge and make a change with real responsibility.
They are license holders for a secure network which is transforming Britain’s energy system and helping the fight against climate change.
The role sits within one of the three organisational pillars that form the Demand and Capacity Mgmt. unit and will be instrumental in developing the short-, medium- and long-term network demand forecasting insights and demand Plan-of-Record to shape network planning needs.
The role will work in concert with the Programme and Change Demand Planning manager to provide a consolidated view of the future needs of the network, providing SME both to and from the team to enable a consolidated view of demand and opportunity that can be enacted on.
The role will also support the emerging need for improved strategic insights and the evolution of demand profile over a medium to long term planning horizon and to understand the demand sensitivities within it.
The person will need to be a self-starter and the ability work collaboratively with internal and external teams and will own the formation and delivery of the plan-of-record for industry endorsement.
Success will be measured by the ability to secure robust insights and plans of stakeholders, gain concurrence on future intent, insights, and sensitivities within it.
As our Senior Manager, Network Demand Engagement, you will:
Provide a single point of contact to customers ranging from Retail Energy Suppliers, national Distribution Network Operators, and a range of other users of the network.
Build and document a comprehensive understanding of industry’s demand usage profile and future aspirations and requirements over a 10-year horizon.
Monitor and analyse user processes, customer usage demand profiles and variance to plan, to ensure a robust set of usage assumptions are in place, underpinning the plan-of-record.
Serve as the demand and capacity management conduit with support from customer relationship management, strategy, and programme teams to influence the correct balance between value-for-money and future needs of the DCC network.
Ensure appropriate change management governance noting deviations and variance to plan, reason for change and the future sensitivities of planned demand.
Develop and present the assumptions plan-of-record to DCC internal and external stakeholders (i.e. Industry SEC Operations Steering Groups, Central Government) in an informative manner to secure endorsement of the assumptions, their risks and any issues arising.
Ensure a regular cadence with stakeholders to assure the timely production of the demand forecast and where required, exceptional meetings to refine assumptions and risk profiles.
Develop, maintain, and report an effective set of KPIs and drive continuous improvement activities upon them.
Work with other key internal and external stakeholders to develop and evolve a strategic demand plan (2-10 years), noting the emergence of new use cases and differing scenarios arising from industry verticals and government policy.
We’re looking for:
Essential
Proven industry and regulatory stakeholder management skills, with evidence of working across a broad set of technical and non-technical stakeholders. The ability to achieve buy-in and understanding of the parameters, processes, and policies to mitigate demand and capacity risk.
Experience of presenting both technical and non-technical collateral to industry forums and regulatory bodies
Good understanding of demand forecasting and capacity management practices and drivers including the impact of demand variation on capacity supply methodologies. This may include intra-day utilisation, seasonality events, peak demand profiles and may include complex and often competing data sets from different stakeholders.
The ability to develop, translate and robustly document emerging short-to-medium term ‘demand profiles’ and ‘use cases’ for onward dissemination and modelling.
Experience in horizon planning up to ten years, noting the ambiguous nature of emerging demand and the sensitivities of the future direction and pipeline. Strong capability to convert such trends from a qualitive lens to a quantitative data led demand which can be understood by internal and external stakeholders.
Good understanding of risk management in the context of demand and capacity planning and management
The ability to develop what-if scenarios and develop sensitivity profiles predicated on an emerging risk profile over time
Formation of a short-, medium- and long-term future ‘use case’ plan, including the segmentation of demand, size and impact assessments of the emerging use cases
Proficient in Microsoft tools (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, PowerBI).
Desirable
A background in the energy or high growth, regulated industry with an S&OP focus
Experience in demand planning, service delivery or regulation.
Experience is technical capacity management of data networks or similar application.
Experience of developing guidelines or influencing policies and regulation.
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