Stakeholder Manager

Stakeholder Manager (permanent position)

Location - Leeds, LS15 (With travel)

Salary - £37,925 to £46,125

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced strategic thinking Stakeholder professional to join a leading employer, a company with a great working environment and a business that really values its people. You'll be joining a business with a great reputation for high quality stakeholder engagement; ranked 1st and 2nd within our industry in the last two years.

Here at Northern Gas Network you will be provided with all the tools essential to be successful in your career.

The role:

As Stakeholder Manager you will be given ownership high profile projects that ensure we deliver great services for our stakeholder community and excel in our regulatory responsibilities.

This will see you working closely with senior colleagues and external partner to understand and act upon our customer's expectations. You will see the bigger picture as you create a culture of proactive engagement across our business and build trusted relationships across our network.

Working as part of a small friendly team your key responsibilities will include:

• Managing our stakeholder boards and focus groups
• Creating our annual stakeholder report
• Driving continual improvement and business change
• Acting as key contact for senior internal and external stakeholders
• Developing and maintaining our systems and processes, mindful of legislative requirements

Key skills / experience / qualifications:

• Previous experience within a stakeholder engagement role (Ideally at Management level)
• Able to establish and maintain key relationships
• Confident and professional communication (Written / Verbal)
• Ideally have experience of working within a regulated environment (Not essential)
• Ideally degree educated within a business related subject (Not essential)

Package:

• Salary - £37,925 - £46,125 (Dependent upon experience)
• Up to 10% Annual bonus
• Company pension
• 25 days holiday + 2 half days holidays on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve
• Extensive flexible benefits provision including salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme and gym membership and many more including restaurant cards, health schemes, experience days, activity pass etc.

About Northern Gas Networks (NGN):

Since we started operating in 2005, we've been leading the way as one of the most cost-efficient of the UK's eight gas distribution networks. We deliver great value for money to our customers, as well as a whole host of social and economic benefits to our region.

We're recognised as a dynamic, passionate, conscious and people focused team that safely and reliably delivers gas to over 2.7 million homes and businesses across the North East, northern Cumbria and much of Yorkshire.

Why Work at NGN?

At NGN, we are above all a community. We provide a supportive and fun working environment where our leaders care about others and celebrate success. Where we embrace creativity and innovative thinking as well as offering a range of learning and development opportunities. That's because we know that without passionate, well trained colleagues, we simply can't do our job.

*Please note that any NGN colleague may apply for this vacancy. However, internal applicants whose roles may be 'at risk' due to an ongoing restructure will be guaranteed an interview for this vacancy.

This really is a fantastic opportunity to join a friendly team and work within a warm and welcoming environment. So don't delay, apply today!!