Principal Program Manager, Strategic Supplier Enablement

Requisition ID# 164401

Job Category: Project / Program Management

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland; Alameda; Alta; American Canyon; Angels Camp; Antioch; Auberry; Auburn; Avenal; Avila Beach; Bakersfield; Balch Camp; Bay Point; Bear Valley; Belden; Bellota; Belmont; Benicia; Berkeley; Brentwood; Brisbane; Buellton; Burney; Buttonwillow; Calistoga; Campbell; Canyon Dam; Canyondam; Capitola; Caruthers; Chico; Clearlake; Clovis; Coalinga; Colusa; Concord; Concord; Corcoran; Cottonwood; Cupertino; Daly City; Danville; Davis; Dinuba; Downieville; Dublin; Emeryville; Eureka; Fairfield; Folsom; Fort Bragg; Fortuna; Fremont; French Camp; Fresno; Fresno; Fulton; Garberville; Geyserville; Gilroy; Goodyear; Grass Valley; Guerneville; Half Moon Bay; Hayward; Hinkley; Hollister; Holt; Huron; Jackson; Kerman; King City; Lakeport; Lemoore; Lincoln; Linden; Livermore; Lodi; Loomis; Los Banos; Lower Lake; Madera; Magalia; Manteca; Manton; Mariposa; Martell; Marysville; Maxwell; Menlo Park; Merced; Meridian; Millbrae; Milpitas; Modesto; Monterey; Montgomery Creek; Morgan Hill; Morro Bay; Moss Landing; Mountain View; Napa; Needles; Newark; Newman; Novato; Oakdale; Oakhurst; Oakley; Olema; Orinda; Orland; Oroville; Palo Alto; Palo Cedro; Paradise; Parkwood; Paso Robles; Petaluma; Pioneer; Pismo Beach; Pittsburg; Placerville; Pleasant Hill; Point Arena; Potter Valley; Quincy; Rancho Cordova; Red Bluff; Redding; Richmond; Ridgecrest; Rio Vista; Rocklin; Roseville; Round Mountain; Sacramento; Salida; Salinas; San Bruno; San Carlos; San Francisco; San Francisco; San Jose; San Luis Obispo; San Mateo; San Rafael; San Ramon; San Ramon; Sanger; Santa Cruz; Santa Maria; Santa Nella; Santa Rosa; Selma; Shaver Lake; Sonoma; Sonora; South San Francisco; Springville; Stockton; Storrie; Taft; Tracy; Turlock; Twain; Ukiah; Vacaville; Vallejo; Walnut Creek; Wasco; Watsonville; West Sacramento; Wheatland; Whitmore; Willits; Willow Creek; Willows; Windsor; Winters; Woodland; Yuba City

Department Overview

The Procurement Organization includes a staff of more than two hundred sourcing managers, buyers, analysts, and supplier diversity personnel. 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 Program Manager, Strategic Supplier Enablement is responsible for executing enterprise-wide programs that enhance supplier relationships and advance strategic supplier objectives.

The Program Manager will partner closely with procurement, business unit leaders, and external stakeholders to develop a supplier ecosystem that delivers long-term value, mitigates risk, and aligns with PG&E priorities. This role requires a balance of strategic vision, operational execution, and stakeholder engagement to ensure that supplier initiatives support business objectives. The ideal candidate will have a proven ability to lead initiatives that drive measurable impact. This individual will influence others, implement governance structures, and implement frameworks to optimize supplier performance, foster innovation, and ensure compliance with regulatory and corporate standards.

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

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 estimatethe successful candidate hiredinto this rolewill beplaced towards the middle or entry pointof the range, the decisionwill be made on a case-by-casebasis related tothese factors.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $140,000

Bay Area Maximum: $238,000

-Or-

California Minimum: $133,000

California Maximum: $226,000

Reporting Relationship

The Strategic Supplier Enablement Program Manager will report to the Strategic Supplier Enablement Director.

Job Responsibilities

• Recognized subject matter expert who represents PG&E in regulatory and/or industry forums on subject of expertise
• Leads development of program goals and metrics to meet company goals and objectives. Collaborates across organization to ensure alignment of goals to support program
• May manage major cross-functional projects and initiatives.
• Provides strategic leadership and mentorship to teams, fostering a high performance culture and accelerating team capability development.
• Solves unique and complex problems, anticipating issues and developing innovative solutions.
• Drives cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders in Finance, IT, Operations, and Business Units to ensure procurement initiatives align with enterprise priorities.
• Develops or provides significant input to PG&E leadership, other utilities with similar programs, industry and/or regulatory decision makers to influence market place and regulatory strategies impacting PG&E and its customers.
• Facilitates strategic workshops, stakeholder engagement sessions, and executive presentations to drive alignment and decision-making.
• Integrates industry knowledge related to data into everyday business practices and decision making.
• Acts as a trusted advisor to procurement leadership, providing recommendations on process optimization and organizational design to support long-term efficiency gains.
• Develops and executes Lean strategies within Procurement, identifying and eliminating inefficiencies to drive process excellence.
• Oversees change management efforts to ensure smooth adoption of procurement process improvements, technology deployments, and strategic realignments.
• Creates new and complex data models to facilitate business decisions.
• Provides direction on overall program.

Background Qualifications

Minimum

• 10 years of related experience or equivalent
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Operations, Finance, or a related field; or equivalent experience in business

Desired

• 10+ years experience in procurement, supply chain, strategic program management, or consulting roles
• Master's degree or equivalent experience in business
• PMP Certification
• Change Management Certification (e.g., Prosci, ADKAR)
• Lean Six Sigma Certification
• Ability to use understanding of the business to help drive strategic decision making, and to recommend operational improvements
• Ability to influence leaders inside and outside of the department through data analysis, insights, and recommendations
• Ability to lead the largest and most complex projects across Procurement
• Ability to create compelling business cases based on complex business environments and inputs
• Adept at addressing issues with diplomacy and tact
• Ability to drive change management efforts, ensuring successful adoption of new processes, systems, and procurement strategies
• Proven track record of leading and executing strategic initiatives in procurement

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is an Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that actively pursues and hires a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability status, medical condition, protected veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other factor that is not related to the job.