Procurement Strategic Initiatives Program Manager, Senior

Requisition ID # 167108 

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, Senior is responsible for supporting the execution of the 2025 and long-term transformation initiatives focused on elevating 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 contribute to various strategic initiatives, support initiative goals, 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 – $102,000 to $145,000

Reporting Relationship

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

Job Responsibilities

• Completes moderate to complex problems and takes a new perspective on existing solutions plan and goals
• Works independently on most issues           
• Provides direction on overall program plan and goals
• Responsible for most/all deliverables within the program implementation plan
• Communicates findings and recommendations to various levels of management
• Develops budget forecasts, conducts analysis in support of identifying budget variances and develops solutions to address
• Develops new and ad-hoc reports, summarizes findings and recommendations and provides business insight
• Supports development of Five-Year Strategic Plan for the LOB
• Supports creation of status reports to senior leaders, conveying key strategic industry information

Background Qualifications

Minimum

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

Desired

• Management Consulting experience
• Advanced knowledge of Program Management
• Ability to communicate findings and recommendations to various levels of management
• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects with demanding time constraints
• Knowledge and understanding of business drivers
• Ability to work within a Regulatory environment
• Ability to assess and recommend solutions for assigned projects
• Organized thinker with the ability to learn quickly and exhibit comfort with ambiguity
• Ability to lead without direct authority
• Strong attention to detail