We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Policy Lead (known as a Senior Change Lead – Grade 10) to join the Change team on a permanent basis.

JOB PURPOSE:

The Senior Change Lead works within the Change team and may be matrixed in to work on different areas of change, as the business needs. This means your line manager (responsible for your performance and well-being) and your matrixed manager (responsible for managing your day-to-day work) may not always be the same. The role is positioned within a team of Change Leads and Senior Change Leads.
The Senior Change Lead is responsible for progressing a portfolio of change projects through a defined governance process. They are responsible for ensuring their work (and the work of the internal project teams, which they are responsible for) is of a high quality and delivered to time-critical deadlines, matrix leading 3-4 colleagues per change project (made up of subject matter experts, legal and project resource).
They shall be effective at researching technically complex topics, writing technical reports of up to 10k words in a plain English and customer-friendly style, and presenting findings to groups of industry representatives and industry decision boards. The Senior Change Lead shall also need to meticulously plan and organise their own workload to ensure they meet challenging deadlines.
The Senior Change Lead should also seek to proactively develop and improve team processes for the benefit of colleagues and customers of Elexon.
Additionally, Senior Change Lead should support their Change Lead colleagues, and be prepared to chair both internal and external meetings, facilitating industry discussion and appropriately managing differing stakeholder views.

Examples of reports can be found on the Change pages of the Elexon website:

• Modifications: https://www.elexon.co.uk/change/modifications/
• Change Proposals: https://www.elexon.co.uk/change/change-proposals/

Key Responsibilities:

• Matrix lead teams of 2-4 colleagues (subject matter experts, legal, business analysts, project resource etc.) to progress and project manage industry change project
• Research and assess the impact of industry change, and draft technical reports of up to 10k works in a plain English manner, presenting findings to industry decision board
• Plan and organise your own workload to ensure you can deliver a demanding portfolio of work under pressure to tight timescales and inflexible deadlines
• Lead on industry engagement with electricity industry participants, the regulator (Ofgem) and government (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ))
• Manage and facilitate internal meetings and external industry working groups including presenting content where necessary
• Support organisation-wide change planning activities to ensure resources are available to support the changes you are responsible for
• Support the wider Rules Management team for any ad-hoc work that needs to be delivered

ELEXON CAREER PATH / POTENTIAL NEXT ROLE(S):

• Progression to BSC Change management role
• Progression to Market Design or Strategy role within Elexon
• Electricity Market Reform Settlement (EMRS) role