Senior Manager - Construction Management Strategic Sourcing
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Job Title - Manager, Management Strategic Sourcing
Location - Oakland, CA (Hybrid)
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and Oakland based on business needs.
SEDAAID#3525
Description:
Position Summary
The Manager, Vegetation Management Strategic Sourcing role is responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies that align with the goals of the Vegetation Management portfolio across all business lines and broader enterprise objectives. This position leads strategic sourcing, category management, and supplier governance to drive performance, cost savings, sustainability, and supplier diversity. The role works closely with internal stakeholders to ensure sourcing activities meet operational needs and capital projects while identifying opportunities for process improvements, standardization, and increased value. This is a highly collaborative role that plays a key part in strengthening sourcing outcomes and enhancing the client experience within the portfolio.
Providing the salary range that can reasonably be expected for this position at the time of the job posting. This salary 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, internal equity, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, and geographic location. The decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors. This job is also eligible to participate in discretionary incentive compensation programs.
Pay display: MIDPOINT: $174,000
Reporting Relationship: The Manager, Vegetation Management Strategic Sourcing will report to the Senior Director, Construction Services Strategic Sourcing
Job Responsibilities:
- Establish a high-performance team to develop strategic portfolio and category plans to generate cost savings, deliver service excellence, optimizes diversity spending and total cost of ownership for key lines of business.
- Ensures the overall governance of the contract approval process from contract creation through contract award.
- Oversees contract spend across multiple spend categories
- Develops short and long term strategies for all spend categories within portfolio
- Leads complex cross-functional teams in the execution of strategic sourcing initiatives
- Manages spend analysis, needs assessment, benchmarking and business case development
- Leads development and execution of negotiation strategies
- Monitors and maximizes customer satisfaction using standardized client service level agreements
- Manages continuous improvement-based relationships that deliver mutually beneficial results for PG&E and its suppliers
- Establishes service level agreements to hold suppliers accountable for performance
- Approves purchase orders and contracts from $500,000 to $10 million
- Directly supervises Sourcing Supervisors, Category Leaders and Sourcing Specialists.
- Develop work processes and procedures aligning to organizational requirements
Background Qualifications
Minimum
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required (one year of experience for every one year of college)
- 8 years of total sourcing or related industry experience; some positions may require technical/category experience
Desired
- MBA or equivalent advanced degree
- Strategic Sourcing experience, Project Management experience, Utility industry experience
- 10 years of total sourcing experience or related industry experience
- 5 years of supervisor experience
- SAP/SRM proficiency
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams
- Ability to identify and resolve problems and implementation barriers
- Demonstrated leadership and management skills
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Job Title - Senior Manager, Distribution Strategic Sourcing
Location - Oakland, CA (Hybrid)
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and Oakland based on business needs.
SEDAAID#3526
Description:
Position Summary
The Senior Manager, Distribution Strategic Sourcing role is responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies that align with the goals of the Distribution portfolio and broader enterprise objectives. This position leads strategic sourcing, category management, and supplier governance to drive performance, cost savings, sustainability, and supplier diversity. The role works closely with internal stakeholders and peers to ensure sourcing activities meet operational needs while identifying opportunities for process improvements, standardization, and increased value. This is a highly collaborative role that plays a key part in strengthening sourcing outcomes and enhancing the client experience within the portfolio.
Providing the salary range that can reasonably be expected for this position at the time of the job posting. This salary 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, internal equity, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, and geographic location. The decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors. This job is also eligible to participate in discretionary incentive compensation programs.
Pay Range display:
MIDPOINT: $187,500
Job Responsibilities
- Build and support high performance team responsible to Develop strategic portfolio and category plans to generate cost savings, deliver service excellence, optimizes diversity spending and total cost of ownership for multiple Portfolios across multiple lines of business.
- Ensures the overall governance of the contract approval process from contract creation through contract award.
- Oversees contract spend across multiple spend categories in multiple LOBs
- Develops short and long term strategies for all spend categories within portfolio for multiple LOBs
- Leads complex cross-functional teams in the execution of strategic sourcing initiatives
- Manages spend analysis, needs assessment, benchmarking and business case development
- Leads development and execution of negotiation strategies
- Approves purchase orders and contracts from $500,000 to $10 million
- Monitors and maximize customer satisfaction using standardized client service level agreements
- Manages continuous improvement-based relationships that deliver mutually beneficial results for PG&E and its suppliers
- Establishes service level agreements to hold suppliers accountable for performance
- Direct reports include multiple Portfolio Managers, Procurement Managers and Category Leads. Through these direct reports, incumbents are responsible for all sourcing activity for the assigned areas of the business.
- Develop work processes and procedures aligning to organizational requirements
Background Qualifications
Minimum
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required (one year of experience for every one year of college)
- 8 years of total sourcing or related industry experience
Desired
- MBA or equivalent advanced degree
- Six Sigma, CPSM or other related certification
- SAP/SRM proficiency desired
- Strategic Sourcing experience, Project Management experience, Utility industry experience
- Minimum 8years years of supervisor experience
- Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills required
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams is required
- Demonstrated leadership and management skills are required
- Ability to identify and resolve problems and implementation barriers required
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Job Title -Major Projects Contract Manager, Principal
Location - Oakland, CA (Hybrid)
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and Oakland based on business needs.
SEDAAID#3523
Description:
Position Summary
The Major Projects Contract Manager, Principal will be a part of the first dedicated procurement function for capital projects. This individual will be responsible to develop and execute sourcing strategy and procurement of goods and services that support our most complex and high-value infrastructure initiatives. This role requires expertise in developing and executing alternate delivery methods such as EPC, PDB, DB and CMAR and project procurement manager. Also, the role collaborates closely with cross-functional partners, such as project managers, construction managers, risk management, engineering, legal, sourcing and others.
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and Oakland or based on business needs.
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 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: MIDPOINT: $164,000
Reporting Relationship: The Major Projects Project Manager, Principal will report to the Senior Manager, Major Projects Procurement
Job Responsibilities
- Leads the most complex cross-functional projects and contracts
- For assigned projects be a SPOC for procurement from project initiation through completion. Develop project procurement plans.
- Follow seven step sourcing process
- Support the development project procurement work process
- Advises senior leadership (internal and external) on contracting strategy and negotiations.
- Negotiates the most complex contract issues independently.
- Leads the effort to identify, analyze, improve existing business processes, or create new ones within the department to meet new goals and objectives.
- Works closely with key stakeholders such as Project Management Director, PMO Director, Engineering Director, and others to ensure alignment.
- Acts as a primary liaison for the contracts team to PG&E’s Legal Department.
- Provides active guidance, support, mentorship and training to less experienced contract management staff.
- Develops and delivers contract management training to all stakeholders.
- Collaborates with other PG&E Lines of Business to promote knowledge sharing and use of best practices.