Junior Product Manager

About the role

Shape the digital products powering The Great Grid Upgrade

As a Junior Product Manager, you'll support the strategy, evolution and delivery of secure, scalable and high-value digital products and platforms that enable The Great Grid Upgrade and the wider energy transition. Working with Product Managers, engineering, architecture, security, operations and business stakeholders, you will help turn business challenges into clear product choices, prioritised roadmaps and measurable outcomes.

This is a hybrid role, with regular team collaboration in Warwick and occasional travel across the UK.

What you'll do

• Contribute to the product strategy and roadmap, connecting user needs, business outcomes, technical direction and organisational priorities.
• Lead and support discovery, scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation, carrying requirements through delivery, transition into service and continuous improvement.
• Develop clear, evidence-led investment papers and business cases for new products and enhancements, including the problem, options, benefits, costs, risks, dependencies, measurable outcomes and recommendation.
• Support stakeholder buy-in, funding decisions and navigation through digital, commercial, financial, security and governance processes.
• Coordinate delivery across Product Owners and cross-functional teams; identify blockers, risks and dependencies and drive them to resolution.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with colleagues and subject matter experts, communicate progress clearly, and constructively challenge assumptions and proposed solutions.
• Research market trends, emerging technologies and industry practice to bring relevant ideas and options into product and investment decisions.
• Champion secure-by-design, compliant and operable products, considering identity and access, information protection, service management, resilience and change governance.
• Support adoption and help build a positive digital culture by translating technical choices into clear business language and practical outcomes.

What you'll bring

• Broad technical knowledge across digital products, platforms, integrations, data, identity, security, cloud services and operational support, with the curiosity to deepen knowledge where needed.
• Product thinking that extends beyond backlog ownership to strategy, roadmap, lifecycle, value, investment and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to work in a self-managed way, use initiative, organise competing priorities and maintain momentum with limited day-to-day direction.
• Strong commercial and investment mindset, with the ability to gather evidence, compare options, articulate benefits and costs, and produce credible papers for governance and funding decisions.
• Good written and verbal communication, including the ability to turn complex technical information into a clear narrative for business, technical and senior audiences.
• Experience supporting the delivery of digital products, projects, platforms or services in a fast-paced environment.
• Working knowledge of agile delivery approaches and effective collaboration with Product Owners, engineering, architecture and delivery teams.
• Ability to build relationships, influence constructively, listen well, and challenge or be challenged in a professional and respectful way.
• Understanding of risk, dependency and stakeholder management in a complex enterprise environment.
• Customer and user focus, with an interest in using research, feedback and data to continuously improve products.
• Nice to have
• Working knowledge of identity and access management, including Microsoft Entra ID, role-based access control and conditional access.
• Understanding of security, compliance and information governance controls, including DLP, retention and audit requirements.
• Appreciation of enterprise and solution architecture principles, including integrations, APIs, data flows and non-functional requirements.
• Knowledge of IT governance and ITIL service management processes.
• Experience using delivery and collaboration tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Power BI and ServiceNow.
• Experience supporting utilities, infrastructure, construction or other major capital delivery environments.

Qualifications and Experience

• Demonstrable experience contributing to digital product, platform, project or service delivery.
• Good understanding of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and associated enterprise platforms.
• Evidence of working across business and technical stakeholders to shape requirements, priorities or roadmaps.
• Experience supporting the development of business cases, investment proposals, options appraisals, or benefits-led recommendations is highly desirable.
• A recognised qualification in Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), or a similar product, delivery, or agile methodology is desirable.

What you'll get

A competitive salary between £57,000 - £65,000 – dependent on capability.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal performance and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to a number of flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

About us

National Grid Strategic Infrastructure is a Business Unit created to propel our grid forward to deliver in 5 years, what has been achieved in the previous 30. By 2030 we aim to have 17 new major infrastructure projects live across England, Scotland and Wales.

Here at National Grid, we connect homes and businesses to power, making sure supply and demand match each other. We make sure the lights are on in schools, operating theatres, and sporting arenas; we’re thousands of people working on behalf of millions of people.

Our investment in Strategic Infrastructure via The Great Grid Upgrade will mean more home-grown power, greater energy security and a cleaner future.

Whatever your role, wherever you work with us, you’ll help us hit stretching targets and achieve our far-reaching goal: to secure, clean energy that supports our world far into the future. Here, you will be at the heart of energy.

More information

This role closes on 26 October 2026 at 23:59, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary. Interviews to be held week commencing 9 November.

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We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates – we make appointments purely on merit, assessed against objective selection criteria. We support flexible working and will make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process should you have any physical or mental impairment which may affect your ability to participate in the process.

Please note that in most cases, National Grid is unable to offer sponsorship for employment under the UK points-based immigration system. As such, applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship now or in the future under the UK points-based immigration system. However, in exceptional circumstances where there is a clear and demonstrable need for specialist skills that cannot be sourced from the local labour market, National Grid may consider offering sponsorship. All applications are welcome from candidates who meet these requirements, regardless of race, nationality, or ethnic origin.