At National Grid, we keep people connected and society moving. But it’s so much more than that. National Grid provides the environment for our teams to thrive and make a real impact. As we drive momentum in the energy transition for all, we are committed to ensuring that every employee feels empowered and engaged. So, join us as a Category Risk & Insight Manager and find your superpower.

Reporting to the Head of Supply Chain Risk, the Category Risk & Insight Manager is a high impact leadership role and trusted advisor to Procurement and the wider business. You’ll turn complex data, market intelligence and risk insight into clear, decision ready narratives that shape category strategy, influence investment decisions and inform senior leaders up to board level.

With responsibility spanning all categories across Direct, Indirect and BU procurement projects, you’ll embed risk, market dynamics and real world supply chain insight into strategy, and supplier engagement. Combining risk leadership, analytics and strong stakeholder influence, you’ll use clear, visual, PowerPoint led storytelling to frame choices, highlight trade offs and drive confident decision making.

This role is based out of our Warwick office. We’re happy to discuss any additional flexibility in working patterns or requirements that you feel could help to make this job work for you!

What You’ll Do:

• Lead supply chain risk analysis and scenario testing across priority categories,
• Translate complex risk, market and supply chain data into clear heatmaps, mitigations and decision ready insight for category leads and business stakeholders to make informed decisions.
• Monitor supply chain risks with the use of technology to proactively anticipate and mitigate n tier supply disruption
• Proactively identify and escalate emerging risks with evidence based recommendations that shape strategy and investment choices.
• Provide a forward looking view of commodity markets, equipment supply chains and demand and supply capacity insights to influence category strategy and negotiations.
• Leverage AI enabled tools to detect emerging risks, identify patterns and accelerate analysis across suppliers, regions and commodities.
• Exercise judgement on supply chain risk factors to instigate category intelligence for risk mitigation and opportunity
• Partner across Procurement, Commercial, Finance, Engineering and Legal to support Category Management, sourcing events, negotiations and supply disruption response.

What You’ll Have:

• Significant experience in strategic procurement, category management or supply chain risk (c. 5+ years), operating at senior specialist or manager level.
• Strong analytical capability gained within utilities, infrastructure, engineering or construction environments.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, with the ability to create clear, compelling, leadership ready materials (Power BI desirable).
• A proven track record of translating complex data and market insight into confident, actionable recommendations for senior audiences.
• The credibility and influence to operate effectively in a matrix environment, partnering with senior stakeholders across US and UK teams.
• Hands on experience with Third Party Risk and market intelligence tools
• Practical exposure to AI enabled tools in procurement or risk, including risk monitoring, market intelligence or advanced analytics and reporting.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

What You'll Get:

Circa £65,000 - dependent on experience.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance with on target being 15% (with a maximum of 30%) and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to several flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

More Information:

This role closes on Friday 22 May at 23:59, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary.

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About Us:

National Grid is pioneering ways to decarbonise the energy system; from building interconnectors to allow the UK to share clean energy with our neighbours in Europe, to investing in renewable energy generation in the United States.