Open Data – Open Data Process Lead
ScottishPower HQ, Glasgow
Flexible Working Pattern
Closing Date: 26 January 2025
Help us create a better future, quicker
SP Energy Networks (SPEN) are working towards achieving our RIIO-T2 and RIIO-ED2 ambitions to provide a safe and reliable service which delivers Net Zero ambitions, builds a trusted relationship with our customers and stakeholders, and builds a digital and data driven workforce of the future.
The Open Data Process Leads within our Network Intelligence and DSO Development team are key to our journey by working with our internal and external stakeholders to inform and develop our strategies, processes, policies, and principles - ensuring best practice and alignment with industry requirements.
Our Network Intelligence and DSO Development team is newly established, it brings together the planning and reporting functions of our organisation with our data capture activities and seeks to build Data Governance and Open Data capabilities within SPEN.
The postholder is responsible for monitoring and communicating the principles of Open Data and Data Best Practice, which includes the compilation of business performance in comparison to the expectations of our Open Data obligations.
What you’ll be doing
- Ensuring SPEN Open Data requirements are developed, established, communicated, enabled, and achieved.
- Implementing and adhering to a presumed open approach to sharing of data – and ensuring that significant volumes of external stakeholder and customer needs are met.
- Taking a leading role in the management of Open Data enquiries, including all aspects of data identification, data triage and end to end stakeholder management of both internal and external parties.
- Engaging with and adopt industry best practice such as Data Best Practice.
- Develop reporting and information on business management of Open Data, developing insight and information which can be shared with wider management team, and Senior Leadership group.
- Working with the Open Data Manager to oversee developments and delivery of datasets onto our Open Data platform, ensuring accuracy and quality of data, whilst leading and supporting relevant stakeholders through our robust data triage process and journey to publication.
- Leading a program of proactive engagement of external stakeholders to identify future data sharing opportunities.
- Overseeing the development of SPEN Open Data Portal to ensure that it is aligned with stakeholder expectations and all data published is in line with industry guidance.
- Providing support in preparing presentations and responses to requests for information from internal and external bodies as well as preparation of information for regulatory Price Control Reviews, supported as necessary by analysis and documentation.
- Cultivating relationships with key stakeholders and establish sound and effective working relationships with SPEN staff and management teams in all parts of the business.
What you’ll bring
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and time management skills, communicating objectives and delivering projects with multiple milestones.
- Experienced in preparing analysis, reports, and presentations for senior management, numerically articulate with strong attention to detail.
- Ability to devise solutions to complex problems & challenges, involving consultation with others in the business, resolve differences and present a common agreed perspective.
- Ability to devise solutions to complex problems / challenges and applying innovative thinking where necessary.
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 Northwest 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.
