Director, Strategy Alignment & Portfolio Management

Requisition ID # 163421 

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy; Compliance / Risk / Quality Assurance; Energy Services / Trading; Project / Program Management 

Job Level: Director/Chief

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The Utility Partnerships and Innovation Leadership team is focused on the creation of transformative, scalable solutions to interlocking utility challenges through the development of third-party partnerships and the deployment of new technology and solutions that directly accelerates PG&E’s long-term strategy.

Position Summary

The Director of Strategy Alignment & Portfolio Management is responsible for leading teams to support business functions and optimize the UPI portfolio of work to ensure the organization operates efficiently and maximizing the strategic impact of UPI’s portfolio of work. This includes optimizing the portfolio of programs and aligning strategies and regulatory proceedings across the three other UPI verticals- Electrification & Decarbonization, Load Management, and Innovation. This position will act as the department’s point person on defining, articulating and enhancing UPI’s holistic value proposition with internal and external customers.   

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

Reporting Relationship

The Director of Strategy Alignment & Portfolio Management will report to the Vice President, Utility Partnership & Innovation.

Job Responsibilities

• Drive alignment across UPI verticals to ensure consistent and/or complimentary strategy, policy, and evaluation criteria are deployed throughout broader team.
• Identify and realize synergies across UPI verticals that drive cost efficiencies and enhance our customer value proposition.
• Serve as the primary point for contact for the CEO and the executive officer team in addressing overarching strategic and policy issues as the company transitions to a decarbonized utility system that increasingly relies on grid-edge technologies for safe, reliable and affordable service.
• Manage business performance of UPI organization through centralized risk management, financial planning, safety, and reporting.
• Measure, track and monitor key performance measures while managing to company budget and resource allocations.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement by empowering employees to take ownership in improving the execution of ‘breakthrough’ outcomes.
• Drive the voice of the innovation throughout the company by effectively working with operations executives in resolving gaps in company strategy through the development of pragmatic solutions that facilitate the delivery of desired outcomes.
• Partner cross-functionally (e.g., customer experience team, service planning & design, UPI verticals) to craft a cohesive and integrated customer value proposition and experience for the full range of UPI program offerings.
• Lead regular cadence of UPI peer and officer discussions and decisions on strategy, regulatory proceedings, and portfolio optimization. Drive data-driven decision-making that maximizes the strategic and customer impact of UPI’s programs holistically, based on clear goals, strategies, and tactics, with clear ownership across lines of business. 

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 or entry point of the range, 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

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:

• Advanced degree in engineering, policy, law, business, or similar.
• Utility and/or clean energy industry experience.
• Strong strategic and analytical capabilities.
• Excellent communication skills and experience engaging effectively with a range of stakeholders (e.g., technical staff or C-level executives).
• Experience building a cohesive, motivated, and talented team that delivers results – drive employee engagement, performance, and foster the career development of team members.
• Experience in strategic influence, and driving alignment through intellect, interpersonal skills and rational dialogue.
• Ability to encourage employees to identify work process and system improvements, incorporate benchmarking and best practices, champion and overcome resistance to and facilitate change.
• Ability to develop working relationships with business partners ensuring that work plans and operations are coordinated, aligned and support attainment of department and company goals and objectives.
• Knowledge of regulations, regulatory agencies, legislative bodies, and the regulatory and legislative environment that impact clean energy programs.
• Ability to attract, build, mentor and direct a high-performing Management Team.
• Ability to meet the business demands of the entire organization through collaboration and integrated solutions.
• Ability to deliver and scale results through effective deployment and management of resources and collaboration.
• Ability to work constructively, drive progress and resolve challenges across a large and complex organization and among internal/external stakeholders.
• Ability to work in an ambiguous environment.
• Ability to make intense, demanding work fun.