Senior Digital Business Strategist

Description

The Digital Business Strategist is responsible for supporting the business and operations work stream within a multi-disciplinary digital product team structure. They partner closely to execute several activities, such as identifying risky assumptions, building the value case, defining the future-state process vision, executing change management plans, etc.

• Build relationships with business stakeholders and represent their needs and priorities by defining business requirements to be addressed by digital solutions
• Provide support to product & technical workstreams (e.g., RFP support, process mapping, stakeholder mgmt., value alignment, PMO & governance)
• Support strategic planning process and define business future state vision based on stakeholder input and industry trends
• Support change mgmt. and product roll-out plan, with help from the change mgmt. team as needed
• Construct product business cases, including value projections and detailed investment estimates, and track objectives and key results to assess benefit realization of products
• Prepare materials for key stakeholder readouts (e.g., Digital Board meetings) and regulatory
• Support business/operation work stream team, participating in Agile sprints and driving progress throughout product lifecycles
• Drive digital product planning by coordinating business capability assessment, product design, and roadmapping across cross-functional teams

Requirements

• Knowledge of digital product implementation fundamentals and Agile product or project management
• Ability to think strategically and present a compelling vision that represents stakeholder perspectives
• Ability to perform data analytics and communicate meaningful insights from data
• Ability to create and present compelling materials to senior stakeholders from different organizations
• Ability to design future-state processes and solutions that address user frictions, including articulating any changes needed to reach the future-state process
• 3+ years relevant business experience, such as product management, transformation, and strategic business planning
• Ability to execute change management and product roll-out plan, including marketing, communications plan, user adoption strategy, etc.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, engineering or relevant field
• Experience working across cross-functional teams and managing broad groups of stakeholders
• Valid driver’s license required with a safe driving history that meets National Grid’s Safe Driver policy.
• Ability to build and refine a product business case, including benefits (financial, non-financial, strategic) and costs
• Ability to assess and document current state operations, identify customer/user pain points, and help translate business needs into product requirements
• Experience working with/within or knowledge of electric utilities, DER developers, and/or utility technology providers
• Excellent analytical problem solving and strategic thinking skills

Benefits

Upstate $111,000 - $131,000 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. Internal candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.

Downstate $134,000- $158,000 a year

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance