Hybrid Principal Electric Program Manager

at Pacific Gas and Electric Company

• Job title: Principal Electric Program Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $144,000 - $244,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: PMP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Oakland, United States

About the role

• Manages Electric Operations business program involving strategy, budgeting, and project oversight at PG&E. Collaborates across departments to enhance operational efficiency and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Manages aspects of the programs that are cross functional, complex, of larger scope and have a significant impact on Electric Operations.
• Assists in the development of overall strategy to achieve program goals.
• Oversees projects, develops and monitors the budget, prepares and delivers regular program performance reporting to direct supervisor and senior leaders/officers.
• Provides standardized regular reports, along with custom, ad-hoc reports for special projects.
• Uses various data sources, which include SAP Business Warehouse, and Microsoft Access.
• Supports divisions with reporting needs when applicable for operational reporting metrics to provide intelligence on performance trends.
• Develops and delivers presentations to leaders regarding the program progress toward goals, expenses vs. budget, etc.
• Plans and forecasts work to be part of the program.
• Monitors and ensures projects are properly planned and captured in the program.
• Identifies issues and develops solutions.
• Presents recommendations and implementation plan to leadership for approval.
• Performs trend analysis to identify cost drivers and develop and execute mitigation plans to improve business results.
• Develops tactical plans to deal with various cost drivers and emerging issues.
• Manages capital and expense spending to ensure work identified in the program plan is completed and productivity cost targets are achieved.
• Reviews cost monitoring systems to ensure that adequate controls are in place to uncover and correct erroneous charges.
• Prepares accurate forecasts, monitors spending, and develops and presents variance explanations.
• Works closely with peers and leaders in line of business to ensure financial targets are understood and achieved.
• Solves unique and complex problems, anticipating issues and developing innovative solutions.
• Takes a leadership role to work collaboratively with partner organizations and divisions to develop and implement processes and best practices that improves customer or client satisfaction.
• May work with other project or program managers or peers in other departments or regions to obtain added insights to drivers in the program.
• Develops communication and training plans.
• Ensures target audience is fully educated in the purpose of the program and the proper processes and requirements to follow.
• Ensures compliance with the program.
• Performs analysis of key drivers to the program, including but not limited to capturing and interpreting data from multiple sources, both internal and external, and relating the findings to how it impacts the program.
• Tracking data, trends, and projects to ensure the accuracy of the program is not compromised.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Ten (10) years of related experience or equivalent.
• Master’s Degree in job-related discipline or equivalent experience (desired).
• PMI-Project Management Institute PMP-Project Management Professional certification (desired).
• Team leadership and ability to collaborate effectively.
• Ability to use understanding of the business to help drive strategic decision making, and to recommend operational improvements.
• Deep knowledge and expertise of business and or industry drivers.
• Ability to lead large and complex projects working with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to create compelling business cases based on complex business environments and inputs.
• General financial management & budgeting skills and business acumen.
• Analytical problem solving and decision-making ability.
• Knowledge of project management, process improvement best practices, concepts, methods and techniques.
• Multitasking multiple priorities and projects.
• In depth knowledge of assigned line of business’ processes, regulatory requirements, critical success factors, goals and initiatives.
• Depth and breadth of expertise multiple qualitative and quantitative analytic methods, approaches, and tactics.
• Process unique subject matter expertise in what-if modeling analysis, concepts, methods and techniques and recommends how different factors impact business outcomes.
• Creative and strategic problem-solving skills to develop new, innovative solutions.
• Strong analytical and writing skills to create compelling business cases based on complex business environments and inputs.
• Excellent organizational, prioritization and multi-tasking skills.
• Deep knowledge and expertise of business and/or industry drivers.
• Adaptable to changing business conditions and ambiguity.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Excel, Access, Project, Visio.
• SAP Business Warehouse & Financials.