Procurement Principal Program Manager

Requisition ID # 162679 

Job Category: Project / Program Management 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

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 is responsible for driving high-impact programs that enable operational excellence, strategic value creation, and data-driven decision-making across the Procurement function. This role will be responsible for managing and continuously improving critical programs such as the Sourcing Project Plan and Enterprise Spend Cube, in partnership with the Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Analytics teams, while also leading cross-functional initiatives that support Procurement strategy, performance, and data maturity.

The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with program management experience, capable of leading cross-functional programs and initiatives, supporting PG&E’s commitment to safe, reliable, and sustainable energy. This role requires a blend of analytical expertise, business acumen, and communication skills to translate complex data into strategic recommendations that drive competitive advantage and procurement efficiency.

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

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:$238,00      

Reporting Relationship

The Procurement Program Manager will report to the Procurement Market Intelligence and Analytics Sr. Manager.

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 across Procurement and 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
• Deep knowledge and expertise of business and/or industry drivers
• 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