Colin Nicol has been named as the managing director for distribution, moving across from his previous role as lead director of generation development.
He will be responsible for leading SSE’s electricity distribution businesses and will report to the company’s chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies.
At the same time SSE has announced that its director of distribution, Mark Mathieson, is leaving the company having joined in 1988 and taken on the position in 2005.
Phillips-Davies thanked Mathieson “for everything he has done for SSE, especially during the last two price control periods”.
The role of SSE’s director of transmission, David Gardner, will remain unchanged, but he will now also report to chief executive Phillips-Davies.
Phillips-Davies added: “It’s vital that businesses get the level of senior management input that they need, and the scale and complexity of the different challenges in distribution and transmission mean that this is the right time to reshape the leadership team so there is the right focus on what they need to achieve over the next few years.
“We are continuing to review Ofgem’s Final Determinations for the new electricity distribution price control, but believe that this reshaped leadership team will help achieve the operational and financial performance that customers and investors are looking to us to achieve over the next eight years.”