Principal Program Manager

Requisition ID # 162931 

Job Category: Project / Program Management 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Finance

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview
The Business Finance teams provide financial planning and reporting services to PG&E and is responsible for providing strategic direction and coordination in respect to strategic functional area planning processes, financial planning, forecasting, analytics and reporting.

The Value Delivery program, part of the Business Finance team, is a transformative effort to optimize PG&E’s strategy to realize value to support the company's long-term growth while maintaining affordability for our customers. With the goal of improving our Cap/Expense ratio over a six-year period - representing $1-$2B in savings, the program will lead the enterprise plan to deliver operational efficiency and financial performance.

Position Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled and accomplished Principal Program Manager to support development and management of the Value Delivery program portfolio of cost reduction and performance improvement initiatives across PG&E. This senior role requires a strong operational leader with a proven track record of delivering on long term and high impact transformational and continuous improvement projects. They will leverage PG&E’s performance playbook (lean, breakthrough and PSEMS) and leads through exemplary understanding and application of PG&E’s virtues, especially curiosity and tenacity.

The role is hybrid working from your remote office and in-person at the Oakland General Office 2-3x weekly or based on business needs. 

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 between the entry point and the middle of the range, 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.   

A reasonable salary range is:​  

Bay Area Minimum:      $140,000       

Bay Area Maximum:     $238,000 

Job Responsibilities 

• Leads development of program processes, goals and metrics to meet company goals and objectives.  Collaborates across organization, and other strategic initiatives, to ensure alignment of goals to support program.
• Support development of materials and running of Value Delivery’s daily, weekly and monthly operating reviews and Command Center
• Extraordinary analytical and critical thinking skills
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to develop and execute strategies that align expense planning with projected growth while controlling costs
• Develop hypotheses, develop improvement levers, conduct detailed analysis, conduct interviews/ workshops, quantify impact, obtain business buy-in and develop roadmap
• Define & implement outcome-based metrics to support operations to deliver savings
• Leverage the Lean playbook to enhance adoption and enrollment across the organization
• Researches, analyzes, and responds to various inquiries and issues and develops recommendations to support decision making actions
• May manage major cross-functional projects and initiatives
• May represent the leader at various meetings and/or activities
• Coaches and mentors less experienced employees

Qualifications 

Minimum: 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 10 years of related work experience 

Desired:

• Experience with lean, visual management, and time architecture
• Ability to simplify and reduce issues to their fundamental causes
• High degree of emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills– including ability to interact, collaborate, and influence at the executive level
• PMP Certification
• Master’s degree preferred
• Experience with PG&E's cost model
• Highly organized, with demonstrated ability to plan and balance multiple priorities at once
• Ability to work effectively with senior staff members and executive leadership
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong skills in project management, benchmarking, and continuous improvement
• Demonstrated knowledge of PG&E business
• Demonstrated ability to navigate large, complex organizations and achieve results
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, database applications and other related tools

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