Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Senior Manager, Indirect Strategic Sourcing – Facilities/Transportation

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Oakland • California • United States

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Salary

💰 $151,000 - $257,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Develops 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.
  • Acts as a change agent and culture builder, promoting a strong team identity and shared sense of purpose across sourcing and business partners
  • Develops and implements frameworks to enhance team structure, communication and decision-making
  • Brings structure, prioritization, and momentum to ambiguous or evolving initiatives
  • Influences senior leader through Lean methodologies, problem solving, data-driven insights, clear and confident storytelling
  • Ensures alignment and transparency by translating strategy into action and empowering teams at all levels to execute with clarity and purpose
  • Serves as a communication bridge- ensuring priorities, decisions, and insights flow through the organization and don't stall at the management layer

Requirements

  • 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
  • Ability to lead cross-functional teams
  • Ability to identify and resolve problems and implementation barriers
  • Demonstrated leadership and management skills
  • Desired MBA or equivalent advanced degree
  • Project Management experience, Utility industry experience
  • 2-3 years of supervisor experience
  • SAP/SRM proficiency
Benefits
  • PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
sourcingspend analysisneeds assessmentbenchmarkingnegotiation strategiesLean methodologiesdata-driven insightsproject managementcontract managementcategory management
Soft Skills
leadershipteam buildingcommunicationproblem solvinginfluencingstrategic thinkingcustomer satisfaction managementchange managementdecision-makingcollaboration
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMBAadvanced degree