Director, Strategic Services

Requisition ID # 162325 

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy 

Job Level: Director/Chief

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

PG&E’s Strategy team leads the development and mobilization of the Company’s ten-year True North Strategy, co-creates and supports strategy and policy initiatives related to long-term decarbonization, develops long-term forecasts for electric load and gas demand, and incubates emerging business opportunities. With PG&E’s core values of serving our planet and delivering for our hometowns at heart, the team assesses industry trends and opportunities, provides internal consulting to support functional area strategy development and performance improvement, and leads high-profile utility initiatives.

Position Summary

The Director, Strategic Services is responsible for developing and managing process and content for emerging strategic business needs. This may include new business case development following identification and assessment of emerging trends or opportunities that may impact PG&E and its customers. This Director will be tasked to incubate high-profile utility initiatives and assess emerging business opportunities.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop and manage a team that provides internal consulting support for functional area and enterprise strategy development in order to advance PG&E’s True North Strategy. 
• Lead a team that assesses cross-functional and line of business-specific industry trends and opportunities, including market/customer shifts, technology disruptions, competitor performance and scenario development.
• Analyze and develop executive-level materials that explain external trends that may affect the Company’s strategy, identify implications for PG&E, and recommend next steps to manage.
• Engage cross-functionally across functional areas to identify strategy development and implementation needs and provide support.
• Scope out new business cases and develop strategic framework, metrics, and tactics for success.
• Partner with senior leadership and subject matter experts to gather and process information
• Partner with TNS and System Planning teams to incorporate market, industry, technology and policy trends into strategic planning and strategy updates.

Reporting Relationship

This position reports to the Senior Director, Strategy.

Leadership Qualities

PG&E expects its leaders to conduct themselves with the highest ethics and integrity and to embody specific leadership qualities.

Strategic Mindset

• Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.

A Leader in the Community and Industry

• Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
• Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Demonstrates Safety Leadership

• A safety champion in words and deeds with respect to both employee and public safety.
• Maintaining an environment of open dialog and free of retaliation.

Influences and Inspires

• Using various- communications that convey a clear understanding of the needs of different audiences.
• Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related dynamics.

Optimizes Team Performance

• Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
• Creating a climate where people are developed and motivated to do their best to help the organization.

Values Diversity and Creates Inclusion

• Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Fiscally Responsible

• Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.
• Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.

Leads Ethically and in a Compliant Manner

• Sponsoring and sustaining a high integrity speak-up corporate culture which prioritizes ethics, safety and compliance.
• Building on necessary level of industry, company and subject-matter expertise, including laws and regulations.

Provides a High Level of Customer Service

• Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

Compensation

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation 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, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity.  Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle of the range ($235,000), the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $174,000

Bay Area Maximum: $296,000

Background Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, economics, business administration or job-related field or equivalent related work experience
• 10 years of relevant work experience with steady progression of responsibilities
• 4 years of leadership experience

Desired

• Master's degree in engineering, economics, business administration or job-related field
• Utility, energy or regulatory industry experience
• Management Consulting experience
• Experience leading and facilitating cross-functional and cross-matrixed teams
• Knowledge of the utility or energy industry drivers, issues and trends
• Competency in strategic business planning theories, concepts, practices, methods and techniques
• Creative and strategic data analysis, benchmarking, monitoring and business/financial analysis skills
• Skilled in negotiations and influencing others
• Analytical problem solving and decision-making skills to develop comprehensive solutions
• Demonstrated ability to influence across a diverse set of stakeholders
• Creative and innovative solution-based thinking to implement new programs/processes or organizational improvements
• Knowledge of change management and process improvement principles, concepts and practices