Principal Program Manager, Strategic Supplier Enablement

Department Overview

The Procurement Organization includes a staff of more than two hundred sourcing managers, buyers, analysts, and supplier diversity personnel. 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

The Procurement Program Manager, Strategic Supplier Enablement is responsible for executing enterprise-wide programs that enhance supplier relationships and advance strategic supplier objectives.

The Program Manager will partner closely with procurement, business unit leaders, and external stakeholders to develop a supplier ecosystem that delivers long-term value, mitigates risk, and aligns with PG&E priorities. This role requires a balance of strategic vision, operational execution, and stakeholder engagement to ensure that supplier initiatives support business objectives. The ideal candidate will have a proven ability to lead initiatives that drive measurable impact. This individual will influence others, implement governance structures, and implement frameworks to optimize supplier performance, foster innovation, and ensure compliance with regulatory and corporate standards.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work headquarters.

Job Responsibilities

• Recognized subject matter expert who represents PG&E in regulatory and/or industry forums on subject of expertise
• Leads development of program goals and metrics to meet company goals and objectives. Collaborates across organization to ensure alignment of goals to support program
• May manage major cross-functional projects and initiatives. Provides strategic leadership and mentorship to teams, fostering a high performance culture and accelerating team capability development.
• Solves unique and complex problems, anticipating issues and developing innovative solutions.
• Drives cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders in Finance, IT, Operations, and Business Units to ensure procurement initiatives align with enterprise priorities.
• Develops or provides significant input to PG&E leadership, other utilities with similar programs, industry and/or regulatory decision makers to influence market place and regulatory strategies impacting PG&E and its customers.
• Facilitates strategic workshops, stakeholder engagement sessions, and executive presentations to drive alignment and decision-making.
• Integrates industry knowledge related to data into everyday business practices and decision making.
• Acts as a trusted advisor to procurement leadership, providing recommendations on process optimization and organizational design to support long-term efficiency gains.
• Develops and executes Lean strategies within Procurement, identifying and eliminating inefficiencies to drive process excellence.
• Oversees change management efforts to ensure smooth adoption of procurement process improvements, technology deployments, and strategic realignments.
• Creates new and complex data models to facilitate business decisions.
• Provides direction on overall program.

Background Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of related experience or equivalent
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Operations, Finance, or a related field; or equivalent experience in business
• Desired 10+ years experience in procurement, supply chain, strategic program management, or consulting roles
• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in business
• PMP Certification
• Change Management Certification (e.g., Prosci, ADKAR)
• Lean Six Sigma Certification
• Ability to use understanding of the business to help drive strategic decision making, and to recommend operational improvements
• Ability to influence leaders inside and outside of the department through data analysis, insights, and recommendations
• Ability to lead the largest and most complex projects across Procurement
• Ability to create compelling business cases based on complex business environments and inputs
• Adept at addressing issues with diplomacy and tact
• Ability to drive change management efforts, ensuring successful adoption of new processes, systems, and procurement strategies
• Proven track record of leading and executing strategic initiatives in procurement