Senior Manager, Professional Services Sourcing

Requisition ID# 166341

Job Category : Procurement / Supply Chain

Job Level : Senior Manager

Business Unit : Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type : Hybrid

Job Location : Oakland

Department Overview

The Procurement organization is the functional lead for the procurement of materials and services at Pacific Gas and Electric Company. The department collaborates with internal clients and suppliers managing more than $12 billion of annual company spend to develop mutually beneficial total value solutions for goods and services. The department provides the following services to internal clients : procurement of goods and services, strategic sourcing and cost savings, category management, supplier relationship management, execution and outreach, compliance management, ongoing procurement field support and management of the source to pay cycle.

Position Summary

The Senior Manager, Professional Services Strategic Sourcing provides strategic sourcing direction and leadership for the Professional Services category. This position develops strategies and plans to reduce purchase costs and drive the greatest total cost of ownership while ensuring service excellence. This position oversees the governance of the contract approval process from contract creation through contract award for a designated portfolio. This position drives category management strategies with their team and influences key stakeholders to become trusted business advisors.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and 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 estimatethe successful candidate hiredinto this rolewill beplaced towards the middle or entry pointof the range, the decisionwill be made on a case-by-casebasis related tothese factors.

A reasonable salary range is :

Bay Area Minimum : $151,000

Bay Area Maximum : $257,000

Reporting Relationship

The Senior Manager, Professional Services will report to the Senior Director, Indirect & Corporate Services Strategic Sourcing.

Job Responsibilities

• Develops strategic portfolio and category plans to generate cost savings, deliver service excellence, optimize diversity of 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

Background Qualifications

Minimum

Desired