
Principal Program Manager – SAP
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Oakland • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $144,000 - $194,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Partner with system integrator to develop to support integrated project plan for the SAP ERP transformation, ensuring alignment with Fit-to-Standard and Clean Core principles across all phases—from requirements gathering to deployment.
- Coordinate with other Program/Project Managers in parallel workstreams
- Support key planning and stakeholder engagement events/ceremonies such as PI Planning, Retrospectives, backlog refinement, Daily Stand Ups/Daily Operating Reviews, Weekly Operating Reviews/Backlog Refinement
- Guide teams and leaders in Lean- Agile practices
- Contribute to comprehensive testing cycles (SIT, UAT), data migration, and cutover planning, ensuring testing and deployment activities align with SAP best practices for clean core and sustainable extensibility.
- Identify potential risks to the success of projects and develop comprehensive mitigation plans to address these risks proactively
- Lead cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration and effective communication among team members from different departments to achieve project objectives
- Regularly update stakeholders on project progress, changes, and any issues that arise, ensuring transparency and alignment with business objectives
- Support planning of project engagement events and other significant events with key leaders
- Track project milestones and assess the performance of project to ensure they meet the set objectives and deliver the expected outcomes
- Ensure project teams have the necessary resources, including personnel, technology, and tools, for timely and efficient execution of their tasks
- Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including project plans, communication plans, risk logs, and status reports, to ensure all project information is accurately recorded and accessible
- Drive continuous improvement and innovation in the delivery of IT programs by identifying opportunities for process enhancements and implementing best practices
- Support forecasting project resource, material, and costs within standard PG&E tools
- Exercise autonomy, independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance with broad scope and high complex.
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
- 10 years of relevant IT Project Management experience building and leveraging solutions utilizing SAP Technologies
- Masters Degree in job-related discipline or equivalent experience (desired)
- PMI-Project Management Institute PMP-Project Management Professional certification (desired)
- Experience with large / complex SAP S4/HANA program ($MM+ budget) with project management responsibilities.
- Applied experience in SAP Activate Methodology, Waterfall and/or Scaled Hybrid Agile methodologies used by system integrators
- Delivered large complex SAP programs as delivery lead from Big 4 consulting firm (desired)
- Experience in working in global setting where global design was established and realized (desired)
- Broad technical architecture knowledge SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, BTP and SAP
Benefits
- Eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
SAP ERPSAP S/4HANASAP ECCSAP BTPSAP Activate MethodologyWaterfallScaled Hybrid Agileproject managementdata migrationtesting cycles
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationcommunicationrisk managementstakeholder engagementcontinuous improvementautonomyproblem-solvingorganizational skillsteam guidance
Certifications
Bachelors DegreeMasters DegreePMP - Project Management Professional