Business Relationship Manager

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Location:

You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations:
Aberdeen, Glasgow, Inverness and Perth

Salary: £69,105 - £81,406 + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The Business Relationship Manager (BRM) is accountable for ensuring technology investment delivers measurable business outcomes across SSE Transmission. Acting as a senior interface between the business and IT, the BRM shapes demand, influences strategic priorities, and ensures that digital and technology initiatives are aligned to operational, regulatory, and customer outcomes.

This role goes beyond stakeholder management; it requires strong commercial judgement, business insight, and sufficient technical understanding to challenge assumptions, shape solutions, and drive value through technology-enabled change.

We are entering an exciting time within the Transmission business. We are investing over £20bn to upgrade the network infrastructure across the north of Scotland between now and 2030 as the region plays a leading role in the clean energy transition.

The role is critical in enabling digital transformation, enhancing customer experience, and supporting the delivery of large-scale projects across the transmission business unit.

The BRM acts as a trusted partner, enabling value creation through technology, process optimisation, and cost-effective service delivery across complex projects and programmes.

• Strategic Relationship Management:
  Build and maintain strong relationships, acting as a trusted partner with key stakeholders including regulatory bodies, customers, and delivery partners
• Strategic Alignment:
  Translating business strategy, regulatory drivers, and operational needs into clear technology roadmaps and investment plans.
• Business Demand & Investment Shaping:
  Working with senior business leaders to identify, shape, and prioritise technology-enabled initiatives, ensuring clear business outcomes, benefits, and success measures.
• Service Improvement:
  Proactively identify and deliver opportunities for optimisation, cost efficiency, and enhanced service quality.
• Portfolio Oversight:
  Manage a portfolio of future IT and business initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and regulatory obligations.

• Industry
  
  Experience:
  
  Proven experience operating at the intersection of business strategy and IT delivery, with accountability for shaping and prioritising demand
  -ideally within energy, utilities, or infrastructure.
• Business & Technical Acumen:
  Ability to translate complex business requirements into clear, actionable IT deliverables. Able to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across varying levels of technical understanding, ensuring alignment and clarity to business goals.
• Regulatory Awareness:
  Strong understanding of the UK energy regulatory landscape, particularly the role and requirements set by Ofgem.
• Stakeholder Influence & Negotiation:
  Experience influencing senior stakeholders through insight, analysis, and commercial judgement
• Clear and Inclusive Communication:
  Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical information in a way that is accessible and meaningful to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

SSE has a bold ambition – to be a leading energy company in a net zero world. We're building the world's largest offshore wind farm. Transforming the grid to provide greener electricity for millions of people and investing over £20 billion in homegrown energy, with £20 billion more in the pipeline.

Our IT division powers growth across all SSE business areas by making sure we have the systems, software and security needed to take the lead in a low carbon world. They provide expertise, advice and day‑to‑day support in emerging technologies, data and analytics, cyber security and more.

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