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National Grid: Strategic Hiring
National Grid appointed eight contractors including Balfour Beatty and OCU to £640m cable installation framework across UK transmission and distribution
Source: Construction News (UK)
The leadership read
A hiring build-out like this points to deepening energy executive bench strength over the coming quarters.
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 105.9 (Hot) (down 2.3 month-on-month), EMEA is at easing (-2.8pts) on signal share.
National Grid: 3 signals in the last 90 days — above the Energy median of 1 across 26 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Americas signal flow; 3 tracked across 48 days.
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