SAP Analytics Manager
About us
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.
About the Role
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.
What You'll Do
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/4HANA, SuccessFactors 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 strategies, quality gates, and regression testing for Datasphere artefacts and SAC content.
- Lead technical incident and problem management for the platforms, including root cause analysis, performance tuning, capacity planning, and proactive monitoring across UK and US time zones.
Strategic & Enablement:
- Define and maintain the regional roadmap for SAP Datasphere and SAC Planning, aligned with global data and analytics strategy and business planning cycles in UK and US.
- Champion a product mindset for the analytics and planning platforms, prioritising demand, managing backlogs, and balancing new projects, CRs, and technical debt reduction.
- Build and run an enablement programme for regional teams and key users, including training on modelling standards, self-service data access, and best practices for planning and analytics.
- Partner with enterprise architects, finance leadership, and IT operations to align Datasphere and SAC architectures with broader cloud, data, and AI strategies.
- Engage with SAP and key partners to track roadmap developments, leverage new features (for example enhanced analytic models, cataloguing, AI assisted modelling), and assess their relevance for the UK/US landscape.
About You
- A deep understanding of SAP ERP systems in the context of data and analytics.
- Proven track record in managing teams of SAP experts and understanding/following the SAP product roadmap.
- Experience working within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is preferred, with the ability to collaborate effectively within an agile environment.
- Candidates with experience in SAP S/4HANA will be highly attractive, enabling cross-functional collaboration within the finance department.
- Hands-on technical and functional skills and a desire to lead by example.
- The ability to understand and manage multiple stakeholders is essential.
Don’t meet every single requirement? At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.
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
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