Requisition ID # 165596 

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview 

The Procurement Organization includes a staff of more than three hundred sourcing managers, buyers, and analysts. Our mission is to deliver cost effective and valued procurement services through strategic, diverse, and sustainable business solutions. Our work requires close integration with all lines of business, finance, and our suppliers.

The Procurement Excellence Center (PEC) is a strategic function dedicated to driving procurement transformation, operational efficiency, and value creation across the organization. Within the Procurement organization, the PEC establishes best practices, standardizes processes, and leverages advanced analytics and market intelligence to enable data-driven decision-making. The PEC collaborates with all Procurement teams to enhance capabilities, improve performance, and optimize costs. Key focus areas include market intelligence and analytics, digital procurement transformation, risk management, supplier relationship management, governance, and capability development.

Position Summary 

Conducts research, data analysis, forecasting and reporting in support of business decision making, strategy and operations. Participates in business process improvement, quality control and other initiatives. Develops, manages and coordinates performance and quality assessment, business process re-engineering, change management, communication and training.

All employees are responsible for performing their jobs in accordance with PG&E’s vision and values

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 estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​ This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs. 

A reasonable salary range is:​

Bay Area Minimum: $118,000        

Bay Area Maximum: $188,000        

Reporting Relationship

Expert Sourcing Analystwill report to the Procurement Analytics Manager

Job Responsibilities

Works independently with guidance on only the most complex issues Develops new or revises existing data analysis to predict business outcomes selecting from various complex variablesExamines alternate solutions to a problem, effectively troubleshoots various issues and analysis, and provides findings and recommendations for internal clients and external stakeholdersPerforms advanced analysis, benchmarking studies, spend analysis, and needs assessment in support of the development of portfolio and category strategiesLeads process in requirement gathering, creation, implementation, and management of dashboards driving effective and clear visual managementServes as a liaison between Procurement and other departments (finance, business units) in support of Procurement analysis, KPIs, and data requests. Technical Skills – Advanced MS Excel, MS Access, PowerBI, PowerAutomate, PowerApps, SharePoint Online, SQL

Background Qualifications

Minimum

Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Business, Finance, Sociology, Policy, Engineering, Physics or other related fields or equivalent work experienceRequires a minimum of six years of job-related experience

Desired

Master’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Business, Finance, Public Policy, Sociology, Engineering, Physics or other related fields or equivalent work experienceTechnical Skills – Advanced MS Excel, MS Access, PowerBI, PowerAutomate, PowerApps, SharePoint Online, SQLExperience with large data setsEight years of job-related experienceExperience in Procurement and Sourcing, 3-4 yrsCPSM CertifiedLSS CertifiedAbility to present complex data and findings to internal audiences including Managers and Directors and to external stakeholders, regulatory agencies, etc Demonstrated ability to select appropriate analytical tools to resolve complex problems Ability to influence leaders inside and outside of the department through data analysis insights and recommendations Ability to lead large and complex projects working with cross-functional teams Ability to lead, manage and analyze business processes and recommend improvements to gain efficiency and effectiveness Ability to address complex strategic issues and takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions Demonstrates high level of innovative thinking focused on strategy and operation implementation