Senior Manager

Requisition ID # 166388 

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy 

Job Level: Senior Manager

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 Market Intelligence Senior Manager provides strategic direction and leadership to deliver deep market insights and analytics to enhance procurement decision-making. This individual will manage a team of Procurement Market Intelligence specialists tasked with leveraging market research and data analytics to drive procurement excellence, support category strategy, and mitigate supply risks. 

This position is responsible for overseeing the collection and analysis of internal and external market data, monitoring industry trends, and providing actionable intelligence to inform sourcing strategies, risk management, and cost optimization initiatives.

They will work closely with category managers and senior procurement leadership to ensure data-driven decision-making across the organization.  Additionally, they will participate in business process improvement efforts and other strategic initiatives.

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 in 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: $ $155,000

Bay Area Maximum: $ $265,000

Reporting Relationship

The Procurement Market Intelligence Senior Manager will report to the Director of Procurement Analytics and Market Intelligence.

Job Responsibilities

• Establishes and maintains effective partnerships with Procurement Leadership aimed at identifying and understanding the needs of the organization to develop continuous improvement efforts and strategic initiative
• Provides strategic leadership and guidance to manage Procurement Market Intelligence programs
• Manages Procurement Market Intelligence team to provide Sourcing organization with spend analysis, total cost of ownership (TCO) modeling, and should-cost analysis to support sourcing decisions. Provides coaching and feedback as necessary
• Assesses internal and external best practices and research to ensure state-of- art Procurement Market Intelligence methodology, processes and tools
• Enhances Procurement Market Intelligence process & Procurement data through various reporting tools
• Manages relationship and serves as liaison between procurement, finance and other functional areas to establish and facilitate a strategic, valued added relationship relative to procurement cost efficiencies and customer procurement plans
• Partners with the Director to both assist and also drive individual strategies and efforts and assemble cross-matrixed teams from across the organization to effectuate the strategy development and implementation.
• Focuses on the near term deliverables as well as the longer term strategy horizon as the energy and utility industry goes through transformative shifts.
• Leads staff to accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, and rewards and recognition.

Background Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required (one year of experience for every one year of college)
• 10 years of experience in Procurement, Procurement Analytics, Market Intelligence, or related field

Desired

• MBA or graduate degree
• 2-3 years of supervisory or leadership experience
• Strong background in data analysis, market research, and procurement market intelligence within industries such as utilities, energy, or construction
• Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills, and strong attention to detail
• Consulting experience
• Project and/or program/portfolio management experience
• Ability to interact with C-Suite executives
• Exceptional understanding of the energy landscape
• Ability to synthesize complex information – both quantitative and qualitative, and deliver impactful presentations to influence change