Senior Manager, Indirect Strategic Sourcing – Facilities/Transportation

Role Overview

• 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