PMO Data Analyst

Location Location to be agreed with the successful candidate

Ready to make a real impact? We’re looking for a proactive and curious PMO Data Analyst to join our Programme Management Office (PMO).

In this role, you’ll help shape the future of National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) by uncovering insights that drive smarter decisions and stronger performance. Reporting to the Lead PMO Analyst, you’ll work across some of our most important projects—supporting the business to stay ahead of both financial and operational targets.

What you’ll be doing:

• Partnering with teams across NGED to strengthen our data infrastructure, analyse performance, and spot opportunities to do things better.
• Using SQL and tools like Power BI to pull, explore, and visualise data—turning complex information into clear, actionable insights.
• Monitoring key business metrics and recommending ways to boost visibility, efficiency, and outcomes.
• Carrying out exploratory and experimental analysis to understand the impact of new ideas and initiatives.

We’re passionate about helping you work in a way that supports your best performance. This role follows our hybrid model—typically 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home. It’s a full‑time position, but we’re open to discussing flexible patterns. Occasional travel to other locations may be required.

You can base this role at any of our depots across the East Midlands, West Midlands, South West, or South Wales licence areas.

Data analysis:

• Wrangling data to extract information from various data sets and identify correlations and patterns
• Organising and transforming information into comprehensible structures
• Combining structured and unstructured data to predict trends
• Performing statistical analysis of data
• Using tools and techniques to visualise data in easy-to-understand formats, such as graphs and dashboards.
• Monitoring data quality and removing corrupt data
• Preparing reports and presenting these to management or other departments
• Identifying and recommending new ways to streamline business processes
• Using data driven analysis, monitoring performance and providing clear recommendations to drive the company forward to help support the company’s ambitious growth aspirations
• Identifying opportunities to improve process and procedures through inquisitive analysis

• Proven experience as a Data Analyst, ideally gained within a Capital Projects delivery environment.
• Strong proficiency in Python (preferred), with the ability to query and manipulate raw datasets using SQL and Microsoft Excel.
• Confident user of data visualisation tools, such as Power BI, with the ability to bring data to life and communicate insights clearly.
• A natural curiosity and ability to tell the story behind the data, offering clear, actionable insights that resonate with differing stakeholders.
• Expertise in data analysis, with a proven ability to deep‑dive into complex datasets, identify patterns, and translate findings into meaningful insights.
• Skilled at tailoring data stories to different audiences, presenting information in a way that informs, influences and supports decision making.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Business, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science or another quantitative discipline is preferred, although candidates with equivalent experience will be considered equally.

National Grid Electricity Distribution is committed to safeguarding the interests of the Company, colleagues and customers. This role is subject to a satisfactory Barring Service, (DBS) check, depending on the role different levels of screening and vetting are required. Some roles require a triannual check. #LI-HYBRID #LI-SC1

We’re National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED), the owner and operator behind the electricity distribution systems for the Midlands, the Southwest of England and South Wales. Serving communities of more than 8 million people, our expert teams deliver heat, light and power for homes and businesses.

National Grid employs over 29,000 people worldwide. We are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues – who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. Our vision is to be at the heart of a clean, fair and affordable energy future and we are doing this in a fast-moving industry with an increasing focus on tackling climate change, exploring new energy sources that are renewable, low carbon, and improve efficiency to meet demand.