Network Plan Specialist - Coventry, United Kingdom - Cadent Gas

Cadent Gas

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Coventry, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Base Location:
Hybrid Working Between Home & Coventry Head Office - Ansty Business Park, Coventry, CV7 9JU (1-2 days per week average)

At Cadent we're excited to be part of the future of UK energy We've got a clear roadmap that will drive our performance to the forefront of our industry and support the UK government in achieving its net zero targets by 2050.

We're making a difference through innovation and new ways of working.

Together we're shaping a cleaner, greener future for our 11 million customers whom we put at the heart of everything we do.

What you'll get to work on:

As a Network Plan Specialist, you'll play a vital role in supporting the Network in capturing efficiencies achieved and developing plans for future efficiencies and provide detailed delivery output focused plans.

Building effective relationships with key business stakeholders will ensure the delivery of key recommendations to drive the Network forward, developing and modelling scenarios to focus direction of the business.

You'll shape the priorities and direction for the team to deliver analysis on time and to a high degree of accuracy, taking into account the key business and RIIO output trends along with stakeholder requirements.

You'll also be...

Supporting the business in maintaining commentaries on any significant differences between actual performance and regulatory or business planning submissions
Interrogating core business systems and data available to ensure decisions are based on accurate information and trends
Supporting the teams in determining and interpreting regulatory and business planning requirements, coordinating activities to ensure Cadent meets its obligations
Consistently tracking and monitoring the Network's process outputs to understand implications and drive performance and adherence to the integrated plan
Supporting the team to develop and maintain fit for purpose workload models to deliver the Network integrated plan objectives and outputs.
Ensuring appropriate records are kept of historical performance, business planning forecasts and key decisions to help us respond to internal and regulatory challenges
Maintain a robust change and governance process to ensure multiple requests are managed, communicated and delivered on time.

Who we are looking for:

Valid current UK driving licence
Analytical or Engineering Degree or equivalent is desirable but not essential if appropriate business experience and skills can be demonstrated
Experience and understanding of planning and forecasting activities
Strong ownership and impeccable integrity
Experience of managing teams directly and influencing across virtual teams
Be selfmotivated and proactively selfmanage to deliver continuous improvement and able to work with mínimal supervision
Requires a collaborative, teamplayer motivated by developing others as well as themselves
Able to demonstrate initiative and sound judgement

What's In It For You
Here at Cadent, we are committed to supporting our employees to get the best out of themselves.

For this role in particular we can offer:

Funding and support towards completing qualifications
Ample opportunity for progression within the business
Mentoring and guidance opportunities

Why Join Us
We offer a host of benefits to suit your lifestyle and support your well-being

These include:

Annual bonus
Pension Scheme double matched up to a total of 18% of salary (i.e., employee contributions of up to 6%, double matched by a Cadent contribution of up to 12%)
25 days holiday, plus statutory days, and an option to buy more
Fantastic career development prospects with funded learning options, including support with exams, and internal and external learning and development
Strong focus on supporting you as an individual including:
Flexible working
Strong commitments to ED&I
Generous family provision policies
Flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, insurance, and healthcare packages, plus much more
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2 paid volunteering days per year
Free gym access at the Ansty office, as well as a 'Gympass' scheme providing free or heavily subsidised local gym memberships

We want our employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance and are happy to discuss flexible working options with you if the role can accommodate it.

Let us know about your flexibility requirements, whether that be reduced hours, remote working, flexible start/finish times, or compressed hours, and we will be more than happy to explore what's possible for the role.

Diversity and Inclusion
Don't meet every single requirement listed?

We place great importance on equity, diversity and inclusion, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our employee communities Women in Cadent, Pride at Work (LGBTQ+), Embrace (ethnicity and religion), T