The Head of Regulation – Strategic Infrastructure will be the SI Executive’s trusted advisor on regulation, including attending Executive meetings, and is responsible for the regulatory outcomes for the business unit. You will help the business make confident decisions in a highly visible environment - setting clear regulatory positions, ensuring strong assurance and reporting, and building effective relationships with key stakeholders including Ofgem and Government. You will be responsible for helping the SI Executive to meet their commercial objectives through high-quality regulatory outcomes.
This role will set the direction for regulatory strategy, policy engagement, and assurance for NGET’s Accelerated Strategic Transmission Infrastructure (ASTI) and NGET’s major substation delivery programme. As a member of the NGET Regulation senior leadership team, you will play a key role as the voice of Ofgem in the organisation, playing a constructive critical friend role and helping National Grid to have an effective and influence voice with Ofgem and other important stakeholders.
The role provides authoritative advice to the Executive and Project Directors on the implications of Ofgem decisions, licence conditions, and regulatory reforms, leading a team of around 30 that offers advice and challenge to improve the design of network investments and produce high-quality regulatory submissions.
Externally, the role leads NGET’s day-to-day senior engagement with Ofgem and is responsible for identifying and resolving regulatory risks and issues and influencing Ofgem’s decision making to secure a fair settlement which creates the right incentives to deliver at pace for the benefits of GB consumers.
