Head of Data Analytics & Insights

About us

The UK is on a journey to reach net zero by 2050. The energy sector plays a vital part in helping the country to make this transformational change but to deliver on this ambition we need people with talent, the drive, and the passion to help us tackle climate change. Consenting and delivery of new infrastructure sits at the heart of realising this ambition. We are therefore seeing unprecedented growth in the need for property and planning legal support.

The need for a property and planning lawyer in the UK Legal team is to provide property and planning legal advice to National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET), in both the delivery of existing infrastructure projects and new infrastructure projects both on and offshore. These are large projects in terms of scale and complexity.

Location: The role will be based out of our Warwick or Strand, London office; we operate a hybrid working policy, and a typical working pattern would be three days per week in Warwick,or London with 2-4 days a month in the office.

About the Role

We are seeking a dynamic and strategic Head of Data Analytics & Insights to join our General Counsel Operations team.

The Head of Data Analytics & Insights will build the data and insights capability for the General Counsel Function.

This role requires an experienced legal operations professional with strong data analyst skills and budget and financial management experience capable of improving how we capture insights, create metrics, analyse and drive performance.

The ideal candidate will possess exceptional stakeholder management skills, a proven ability to operate in a large dynamic legal function, and a strong track record of transforming legal data into actionable insights that support decision‑making, performance management, and value delivery.

Key Accountabilities

Data Strategy & Governance

• Drive the legal data and analytics strategy, aligned to Legal Operations and wider General Counsel Function priorities.
• Establish consistent data standards, taxonomies, metadata and governance to improve data quality, reporting and AI readiness.
• Prepare and maintain datasets to support analytics, automation and AI-enabled solutions.

Analytics, Reporting & Insights

• Design and deliver executive-level dashboards and reporting (including Power BI) across in-house resourcing, legal demand, external counsel utilisation, legal spend, technology adoption and performance.
• Provide reporting and insights to support the Legal Front Door and Knowledge Management Hub, including demand, routing, capacity, performance and service metrics.
• Produce actionable insights that support prioritisation, resource allocation, budget management and optimisation of external counsel value.
• Track and report on legal budget forecasting and spend.
• Identify trends, risks, opportunities and improvement areas through analysis of legal and financial data.

Metrics & Performance Management

• Support the definition and implementation of KPIs aligned to legal strategy and service delivery objectives.
• Establish performance baselines and track performance outcomes over time.
• Measure and report value delivered through legal services, technology, automation and AI-enabled workflows, including efficiency gains, capacity creation and spend optimisation.

Technology Enablement & Data Integration

• Embed analytics and reporting capabilities across matter management, workflow, e-billing and other legal technology platforms.
• Support integration of legal, financial and operational data to enable end-to-end reporting and decision-making.
• Drive adoption of data-driven tools, reporting capabilities and evidence-based ways of working.

Stakeholder Partnership & Continuous Improvement

• Act as a trusted data and insights partner to the General Counsel Senior Leadership Team, Legal Operations and Finance.
• Build data literacy across the General Counsel Function and support colleagues in making insight-led decisions.
• Continuously refine dashboards, reporting and analytics capabilities in response to stakeholder needs and evolving business priorities.
• Identify opportunities to improve legal service delivery through data, automation, self-service and process optimisation.

More Information

Location: Warwick or London- London being prefered.

Salary- 58,000- 71,000

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. 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.

Further Information

The closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 3 November 26, We encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date. National Grid’s recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.