Procurement Strategic Initiatives Program Manager, Expert

Requisition ID # 167109 

Job Category: Project / Program Management 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview 

The Procurement Organization includes a staff of more than three hundred sourcing managers, buyers, and analysts. Our mission is to deliver cost effective and valued procurement services through strategic, diverse, and sustainable business solutions. Our work requires close integration with all lines of business, finance, and our suppliers.

The Procurement Excellence Center (PEC) is a strategic function dedicated to driving procurement transformation, operational efficiency, and value creation across the organization. Within the Procurement organization, the PEC establishes best practices, standardizes processes, and leverages advanced analytics and market intelligence to enable data-driven decision-making. The PEC collaborates with all Procurement teams to enhance capabilities, improve performance, and optimize costs. Key focus areas include market intelligence and analytics, digital procurement transformation, risk management, supplier relationship management, governance, and capability development.

Position Summary 

The Procurement Strategic Initiatives Program Manager, Expert is responsible for driving elements of the 2025 and long-term transformation initiatives to elevate PG&E's procurement function to best-in-class standards by implementing standardized processes, tools, frameworks, systems, and governance. This will enable PG&E to serve its hometowns safely, efficiently and affordably. 

This individual will drive various strategic initiatives, recommend initiative goals and strategies, drive strategy implementation, and support continuous improvement across the procurement lifecycle.

The ideal candidate is an organized and highly accountable, self-starter with a strong ability to influence without authority, solve critical strategic problems, and remain detail-oriented while delivering to a broader goal.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and Oakland.

PG&E is providing the salary range that can reasonably be expected for this position at the time of the job posting. This salary range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, internal equity, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, and geographic location. The decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​ This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.  

Pay Range display:

Bay Area – $122,000 to $173,000

Reporting Relationship

The Procurement Strategic Initiatives Program Manager, Expert will report to the Director, Procurement Strategic Initiatives.

Job Responsibilities

• Applies broad expertise and advanced knowledge to wide-ranging issues
• May act as a team lead and provide direction to less experienced employees
• Works with Directors and Managers across functions to influence decisions
• Communicate complex ideas to diverse audiences using a variety of media
• Integrates industry knowledge related to data into everyday business practices and decision making.
• Creates new and complex data models to facilitate business decisions.
• Develops new or revises existing scopes of work to ensure compliance standards and deliverables are established.
• Supports development of Five Year Strategic Plan for the LOB
• Incorporates market and industry trends into strategic planning and development of Five-Year Strategic Plan.
• Creates status reports to senior leaders, conveying key strategic industry information

Background Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelor degree or equivalent experience.
• 8 years of related experience or equivalent

Desired

• Master’s degree preferred
• PMP Certification
• Management Consulting experience
• Knowledge of Utility and/or Procurement industry drivers
• Advanced knowledge of Program Management
• Ability to influence leaders inside and outside of the department through data analysis, insights and recommendations
• Ability to lead large and complex projects working with cross-functional teams
• Ability to create compelling business cases based on complex business environments and inputs
• Adept at addressing issues with diplomacy and tact
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Organized thinker with the ability to learn quickly and exhibit comfort with ambiguity
• Ability to lead without direct authority
• Strong attention to detail