SAP Analytics Manager

What You ll Get

• Competitive Salary: circa £72,000 - £82,000 per annum (dependent on location, capability, and experience).

Additional benefits:

• Flexible benefits such as a cycle scheme, share incentive plan, technology schemes
• Ongoing career development and support to help you cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, examination fees and time off for study leave - so long as it is relevant to your role
• Access to apps such as digital GP service for round the clock access to GP video consultations and NHS repeat prescriptions, wellbeing app to support your health and fitness
• Access to Work + Family Space, providing support and resources for work and family life, including paid emergency childcare and eldercare

Every day, we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses, connecting people to the energy they need for their lives. Our expertise and track record position us uniquely to shape the sustainable future of our industry as the pace of change accelerates. To succeed, we must anticipate customer needs, reduce energy delivery costs, and pioneer flexible energy systems.

This requires delivering on our promises and seeking opportunities for growth.

In IT and Digital, we collaborate closely with the diverse energy businesses within the National Grid group, revolutionizing operations through technology. Embracing modern methodologies and digital mindsets, we drive efficiency and bring new capabilities to internal and external customers as we lead the charge toward a carbon-free future.

Our work is critical, as National Grid powers millions of homes and businesses across the UK and US, and the technology we employ is vital to this task. The successful applicant for this position will play a crucial role in our mission, supported by our multicultural, customer-centric global team, with opportunities for professional development.

National Grid is hiring a SAP Analytics Manager. This role is designated as hybrid, with an expectation of one or two days per month in the Warwick, UK office. Requirements may vary based on business needs and company policy.

We are seeking a National Grid Manager to lead our SAP Datasphere & SAC Planning teams. The successful candidate will own the strategic roadmap, architecture, and operational excellence of SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning, covering projects, continuous improvement, and production support. The role combines solution ownership, platform governance, best practices and regional enablement for finance, HR, planning, and engaging key senior stakeholders.

The role involves cross-regional and cross-department collaboration to ensure a common sensible approach is adopted across National Grid.

Technical:

• Own the end-to-end architecture for SAP Datasphere, including connections, spaces design, data federation/replication approach, and performance optimisation for large, cross region data sets.
• Oversee modelling standards in Datasphere: data builder objects, relational/graphical views, views, analytical models, fact and dimension models, and reusable business entities for SAC consumption.
• Define and govern integration patterns between source systems (for example S/4
  
  HANA, Success Factors and other surrounding applications) including CDC/replication flows, task chains, and real time or near real time use cases.
• Lead the design of SAC Planning models, including data models, versioning, allocation logic, driver-based planning, multi-currency handling, and integration with SAP Datasphere and core ERP actuals.
• Ensure robust technical design for planning processes such as forecasting, budgeting, long range planning, and what if simulations, leveraging advanced SAC features (data actions, multi actions, process flows, and predictive capabilities where applicable).
• Own technical standards for security: roles and authorisation scenarios in Datasphere, row level security and data access controls, SSO, and alignment with enterprise identity and data protection policies.
• Govern development lifecycle and environments (dev/test/prod), promoting best practices, transport…