Principal Operations Transformation

Requisition ID# 164183

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Finance

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview
The Business Finance teams provide financial planning and reporting services to PG&E and is responsible for providing strategic direction and coordination in respect to strategic functional area planning processes, financial planning, forecasting, analytics and reporting.

The Value Delivery program, part of the Business Finance team, is a transformative effort to optimize PG&E's strategy to realize value to support the company's long-term growth while maintaining affordability for our customers. With the goal of improving our Cap/Expense ratio over a six-year period - representing $1-$2B in savings, the program will lead the enterprise plan to deliver operational efficiency and financial performance.

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and accomplished Principal Operations Transformation to lead and support strategic cost reduction and performance improvement initiatives as part of the Value Delivery program across PG&E. This senior role requires a strong operational leader with a proven track record of delivering on long term and high impact transformational and continuous improvement projects. They will leverage PG&E's performance playbook (lean, breakthrough and PSEMS) and leads through exemplary understanding and application of PG&E's virtues, especially curiosity and tenacity.

The role is hybrid working from your remote office and in-person at the Oakland General Office 2-3x weekly or based on business needs.

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 between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decisionwill be made on a case-by-casebasis related tothese factors. This job is also eligible to participate inPG&E's discretionary incentive compensation programs.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $136,000.00

Bay Area Maximum: $232,000.00

Job Responsibilities

• Leads and supports cross-functional cost reduction and performance initiatives, working closely with operations leadership in electric, gas, vegetation management and functional leaders in sourcing, IT and other areas
• Evaluate enterprise performance and provide data-driven insights that lead to actionable recommendations
• Frame analytic approaches and lead quantitative analyses that will yield critical answers to key questions
• Collaborates across organization, and other strategic initiatives, to ensure alignment of goals to support program
• Identifies, tracks and communicates key trends, leading operating models, lean practices, across utilities and related industries that can be adopted across operations and functions
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to develop and execute strategies that align expense planning with projected growth while controlling costs
• Develop hypotheses, develop improvement levers, conduct detailed analysis, conduct interviews/ workshops, quantify impact, obtain business buy-in and develop roadmap
• Define & implement outcome-based metrics to support operations to deliver savings
• Leverage the Lean playbook to enhance adoption and enrollment across the organization
• Researches, analyzes, and responds to various inquiries and issues and develops recommendations to support decision making actions
• Coaches and mentors less experienced employees
• Ability to tell a convincing story to C-level executives using visual charts and dashboards
• Present complicated technical findings to a non-technical audience

Leadership Qualities

PG&E expects its leaders to conduct themselves with the highest ethics and integrity and to embody specific leadership qualities.

Strategic Mindset

• Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.

Demonstrates Safety Leadership

• A safety champion in words and deeds with respect to both employee and public safety.
• Maintaining an environment of open dialog and free of retaliation.

Influences and Inspires

• Using various communications that convey a clear understanding of the needs of different audiences.
• Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related dynamics.

Values Diversity and Creates Inclusion

• Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Provides a High Level of Customer Service

• Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Business, Finance, Sociology, Policy, Engineering, Physics or other related fields
• 8 years of job-related experience

Highly Desired:

• Advanced degree in business administration, operations, engineering or computer science
• 8+ years of relevant experience including least two years of experience in operations transformation, strategic sourcing, or EBITDA improvement in management consulting, private equity or related industries
• Worked at top-tier management consulting companies (MBB, Big 4, AP, A&M, other), Private Equity, Bizops at BigTech, or experience working on transformation and cost reduction roles at large enterprises
• Ability to synthesize the requests from management at all levels
• Capability to be a creative, innovative problem solver - but using simple ideas
• Demonstrates financial bottom-line orientation and solid business acumen to drive strategic initiatives that achieve significant financial return
• Highly organized, with demonstrated ability to plan and balance multiple priorities at once
• Ability to work effectively with senior staff members and executive leadership
• Extraordinary analytical and critical thinking skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, database applications and other related tools
• Use of interactive data visualization tools, such as Tableau and Power BI, to present results in a compelling manner, for the benefit of internal client teams
• Experience with lean, six sigma, visual management especially in services industries
• Ability to simplify and reduce issues to their fundamental causes
• High degree of emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills- including ability to interact, collaborate, and influence at the executive level
• Experience with PG&E's cost model
• Ability and willingness to work long hours if necessary, to meet urgent needs
• Ability to work full-time in an office and remote environment; physically able to sit/stand at a computer and work in front of a computer screen for significant portions of the workday

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