Regional Comms and Engagement Manager

Job Location: Hybrid incl. various locations across Cheshire, Merseyside, North and Mid Wales and North Shropshire.

Starting salary from £54,400 - £68,000 per annum + bonus up to 20%, Family cover PMI and Perk Car Allowance

Help us create a better future, quicker

In this role, you'll lead the business area to deliver consistently high levels of stakeholder engagement and communications, internally and externally. You'll lead and develop specific stakeholder engagement and communication strategies including informing, consulting and involving stakeholders where relevant and evaluating the effectiveness of these strategies.

What you’ll be doing

Lead the development, and evaluate the effectiveness, of appropriate stakeholder engagement, including forums, meetings and special events, that support outperformance of stakeholder and customer engagement objectives e.g. customer surgeries / distributed generation forums / third sector and local authority engagement.
To lead continual performance improvement and encourage integration of innovation to support the execution of stakeholder and communication strategies that result in outperformance of regulatory obligations and incentives.
Develop and deliver short, medium and long term plans to promote the SP Energy Networks brand and alignment with local communities and stakeholders.
Development and implementation of initiatives that will ensure outperformance against regulatory obligations and incentives associated with Stakeholder Engagement and Customer Satisfaction.
Undertake stakeholder research projects, including developing and implementing strategies for continually improving stakeholder and customer satisfaction.
Develop and promote an exemplary safety culture and ensures that all safety legislation is implemented and delivered through all activities.
Develop and maintain robust regional stakeholder and customer relationships on behalf of the company to facilitate delivery of customer and stakeholder strategic objectives.
Through robust stakeholder engagement and feedback, implementing innovative solutions and embracing change through adapting business process to deliver outputs in a challenging environment and positively impact business performance.
Create long term partners with relevant internal and external contacts, as well as identify and pursue opportunities for collaboration, that are key to the successful execution of business objectives.
Lead and manage a team to ensure each individual’s potential is fully developed and inspire a culture that ensures the delivery of high-quality business outputs

What you’ll bring

Proven experience in building and maintaining stakeholder networks
Proven experience of professional stakeholder engagement
Proven experience of managing, motivating, coaching and developing people
Ability to communicate and present information effectively at all levels
Ability to manage competing priorities using sound judgement to determine options and solutions
Capability to manage and influence challenging discussions / situations at all levels
Understanding of key business drivers and the external commercial context in which SP is operating
Highly organised with project delivery experience, with a strong performance ethos and a track record of driving and delivering initiatives through others
regulatory and commercial experience would be advantageous.

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:

36 days annual leave
Holiday purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
Payroll giving and charity matched funding
Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
Count us in – pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
Life Assurance (4x salary)
Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support
Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we’re taking it very seriously. We’re investing >£5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.

We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers@scottishpower.com.

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Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.

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