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About the Role

National Grid is seeking a proactive and knowledgeable energy market analyst, preferably with strong energy demand knowledge, to join the Market Analytics team. This role involves conducting in-depth energy market analyses, modelling scenarios, and quantifying risks and opportunities to navigate future pathways for National Grid.

Responsibilities

• Lead and continuously evolve GB electricity demand modelling, owning core assumptions and methodologies.
• Translate macro drivers of demand growth into actionable modelling insights, articulating impacts on load growth, profiles, and system peaks.
• Design, develop, and maintain advanced data tools and dashboards using sophisticated analytics, machine learning, and statistical techniques.
• Deliver clear, decision-focused insights to senior stakeholders, synthesizing complex market and modelling outputs into concise narratives.
• Stay at the forefront of industry, policy, and technology developments, proactively identifying and quantifying the impact of decarbonisation trends on long-term demand and electricity networks.
• Lead the development and continuous improvement of Market Analytics’ in-house models, ensuring fitness-for-purpose and clearly communicating assumptions, limitations, and outputs.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across National Grid to provide high-impact analysis, challenge assumptions, and shape business outcomes.
• Develop deeper spatial and sectoral insights, enhancing the granularity and relevance of modelling outputs.
• Mentor and develop junior analysts, building team capability and fostering a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and work collaboratively.
• Proven ability to translate complex modelling outputs into clear, decision-ready insights for senior stakeholders.
• Highly self-motivated, proactive and intellectually curious, with a track record of taking ownership and driving improvements independently.
• Strong understanding of GB and/or European energy markets, with experience in electricity demand drivers and decarbonisation trends.
• Good knowledge of emerging demand and generation trends, including electrification, embedded generation, storage, and flexible demand.
• Excellent quantitative, analytical and modelling skills, with experience working with large datasets and applying statistical or advanced analytical techniques.
• Familiarity with power market modelling tools (e.g. PLEXOS, Aurora, BID3) and an appreciation of how modelling supports scenario development, forecasting, and commercial decision-making.
• Experience in data visualisation and insight communication, using tools such as Power BI (or similar), to develop clear, scalable dashboards and analytical outputs.
• Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship.

Skills

• Energy demand modelling
• Advanced data tools and dashboards
• Machine learning
• Statistical techniques
• Python
• Excel VBA
• Data visualisation
• Power BI

Location

• Warwick
• Strand, London

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior Analyst

Salary/Compensations

• Up to £74,000

Benefits

• Bonus based on personal and company performance
• Competitive contributory pension scheme (double match up to 12%)
• Share incentive plan
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Salary sacrifice technology scheme
• Employee assistance lines
• Matched charity giving

About the Company

• National Grid touches the lives of almost everyone, with an energy network that stretches across the Atlantic.
• We are an international team, and our work underpins the lives of millions of people.
• We are working hard to create value for people today – and shape the future of energy tomorrow.
• In the UK, we don’t generate or sell energy – we join the dots to get energy from A to B.
• Our electricity network puts power in the hands of people.
• The world of energy is changing beyond recognition.
• Working at National Grid, you won’t just be touching the lives of almost everyone in the UK – you’ll be shaping the way we use and consume energy for generations to come.

Equal Opportunity

• We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all.
• We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates – we make appointments purely on merit, assessed against objective selection criteria.
• We support flexible working and will make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process should you have any physical or mental impairment which may affect your ability to participate in the process.
• All applications are welcome from candidates who meet these requirements, regardless of race, nationality, or ethnic origin.