Principal Analyst, Energy Strategy & Scenario Planning

About The Role

We are hiring a Principal Analyst, Energy & Strategy to serve as the strategic and analytical right hand to the Director of Gas Scenario Planning—with a clear path to lead this function. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role for someone who finds genuine satisfaction in complex, evolving problems and is energized by purpose.

You’ll lead the analytical and strategic workstreams that shape National Grid’s long-term gas planning in New York and Massachusetts. The work sits at the center of one of the most consequential challenges in U.S. energy: balancing decarbonization ambition with gas system reliability and customer affordability.

You’ll engage regularly with senior executives and external stakeholders, and your work will directly inform major regulatory filings and infrastructure decisions across two states.

Preferred Work Location(s) can be considered for the role: Hicksville, NY | Waltham, MA | Brooklyn, NY (Hybrid)

Why Join Us

This is a rare opportunity to work at the center of one of the most consequential—and genuinely unresolved—questions in U.S. energy: how does gas fit into a decarbonizing grid while keeping the system reliable and energy affordable for customers? The answer isn’t settled, and you’ll help shape it. The role carries significant visibility: you’ll engage regularly with National Grid’s senior leadership and with external stakeholders including regulators, policymakers, and peer utilities. The scope of this function is deliberately adaptive—the energy landscape is shifting, and we need someone who can evolve alongside it rather than execute a fixed playbook. This is also an explicit growth opportunity: we are hiring a right hand to the Director of Gas Scenario Planning with the expectation of developing into a leadership role within this function. If you want work that is genuinely consequential, never fully figured out, and that will develop your career in a meaningful direction—this is it.

What You'll Do

• Lead the end-to-end gas scenario planning process, coordinating across demand forecasting, capacity need identification, and optioneering of supply, infrastructure, and demand-side solutions.
• Manage analytical models to evaluate long-term gas capacity needs and solution portfolios, including benefit-cost analysis and risk assessments.
• Track implementation of solution portfolios and conduct contingency analysis to adapt to changing conditions.
• Define and monitor KPIs and risk indicators, producing dashboards and insights for senior leadership.
• Design and drive project governance for major analytical workstreams: structure the work plan, define milestones and accountability, establish review cadences, prepare materials for executive and regulatory stakeholders, and maintain forward momentum across complex, multi-month projects.
• Manage external advisors and consultants: Define scope, review and integrate work products, and ensure external partners (such as Guidehouse or Concentric) produce analysis that is analytically sound and fit for regulatory purpose.
• Contribute to regulatory filings, including the NY Gas Long-Term Plan and MA Climate Compliance Plan, and support testimony and stakeholder engagement.
• Drive continuous improvement, challenging internal assumptions and refining processes to improve outcomes.
• Iterate and adapt: Embrace the reality that solutions often require multiple rounds of refinement, and be comfortable going back to the drawing board when needed.
• Create buy-in: Help galvanize team members and stakeholders, even when projects are assigned from above or lack immediate excitement.

Key Skills

• Scenario Analysis
• Regulatory Strategy
• Strategic Planning
• Stakeholder Management
• Benefit-Cost analysis
• Energy Policy
• Long-range planning
• Program management
• Executive communications
• Natural gas infrastructure
• Decarbonization strategy
• Cross-functional collaboration

Qualifications

• Substantive experience in an analytically rigorous environment—consulting, regulatory affairs, energy, engineering, infrastructure, or an adjacent field. We value depth of thinking and strategic capability over a specific background or credential.
• Advanced proficiency in scenario modeling, benefit-cost analysis, and strategic planning.
• At least 7 years of work experience with regulatory filings and stakeholder engagement in NY or MA
• Preferred: Genuine engagement with the complexity of the energy transition—specifically, the pragmatic challenge of balancing decarbonization goals with gas system reliability and customer affordability.
• Demonstrated ability to structure and lead large, multi-party analytical or policy projects—scoping the work, building accountability frameworks, coordinating internal teams and external consultants, and delivering polished products through complex review and stakeholder processes. This is not IT or software project management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities, including the ability to structure persuasive analytical documents and prepare clear materials for executive audiences.

More Information

Downstate NY Salary $161,000 - $189,000 a year

MA Salary: $150,000 - $176,000 a year

National Grid will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. You must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

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This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.

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