Business Project Manager, Principal

PG&E•Oakland, CA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Project Governance (EPG) department provides enterprise leadership for project governance, project management standards, and portfolio performance reporting across PG&E's capital investment portfolio. EPG oversees executive-level governance for major projects and strategic programs, develops enterprise project management standards and governance frameworks, and delivers reporting and insights to support decision-making by governance committees, senior leadership, and the Board of Directors. Through its Governance, Standards, and Reporting functions, EPG promotes consistent, risk-based project delivery practices, strengthens accountability and transparency, and helps ensure that PG&E's capital investments are executed safely, efficiently, and in alignment with strategic business objectives. The EPG Standards Team is responsible for establishing and maintaining the enterprise-wide project and program management framework that governs how PG&E plans, develops, authorizes, executes, and closes capital projects and programs. The EPG Standards Team develops, publishes, and maintains companywide project and program management standards, procedures, governance models, tools, and guidance documents that promote consistent, risk-based, and scalable project delivery practices across the enterprise, in collaboration with tactical and strategic committees. This position is a key role in moving EPG Standards and Controls forward. The objective is to help drive improvement in project governance, planning, and execution across the company by measuring adherence to Enterprise Project and Program Management Standards through a repetitive and consistent process. The nature of the work requires a high attention to detail, ability to follow up and resolve issues with cross-functional contributors, and an understanding of project management metrics and key performance indicators. The position has broad exposure to largest projects or programs and business issues across PG&E. The role also provides the opportunity to support the implementation of practical best practice standards and tools.

Requirements

Minimum Bachelor’s Degree (Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Communications, or related discipline) or equivalent work experience
Ten (10) years of job-related experience, preferably at a utility or in the energy industry
PMP Certification
High attention to detail, with the ability to summarize complex information into key messages.
Excellent research and issue resolution skills
Demonstrated ability to abstract or synthesize from one set of ideas or facts to another, identify causal relationships, recognize missing information, and anticipate obstacles.
Demonstrated follow up tenacity with cross-functional contributors.
Demonstrated strong knowledge of project management best practice.
Demonstrated history of being proactive, self-leading and producing significant, high-quality deliverables
Experience with Power BI, monitoring/compliance tools and data management systems.
Strong Microsoft Office and Teams skills, including Power BI
Able to present analysis and evaluation results and output in a cohesive, understandable, and actionable format to leadership.
Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
Applies understanding of project management best practices, terminology, and KPIs to drive better business decisions.
Effectively copes with change, makes decisions and acts without having complete information and comfortably handles uncertainty.
Ability to manage disagreements or conflicts in a positive, non-abrasive manner and is comfortable interacting with individuals at all levels.

Nice To Haves

PMP Certification Desired

Responsibilities

Leads key initiatives for EPG Standards and Controls, including planning, enhanced project lifecycle development, stakeholder and value management, risk evaluation, and reporting.
Creates and maintains EPG processes and guidance documents, in collaboration with the EPG team.
Is responsible for gathering and analyzing data, summarizing findings, as well as making recommendations on governance requirements, and driving best practice.
Advises the EPG team on matters that support strong corporate commitment to top quartile governance.
Provides updates at EPG Operating Reviews, as well as updates to the EPG Steering Committee, and the EPG Command Center, along with follow-up activities, in collaboration with the Senior Manager.
Supports updates to Board-level and SLT (Senior Leadership Team) reporting.
Provides updates to the Project and Program Management Playbook, with continuous improvement tasks aligned to lean basic plays, and support for optimal user experience.
Leads stakeholder engagement, change management and communications.
Analyzes end-to-end, complex Functional Areas processes and procedures to assess compliance with EPG guidance.
Anticipates user concerns and questions, and provides proactive, timely and professional communications or delegates as appropriate.
Identifies, proposes, and influences solutions to address EPG challenges.
Performs assigned activities within the annual Tactical Implementation Plan; including complex analysis and quality review of data to support problem solving and accurate reporting.
Presents findings and makes recommendations to management or others within organization.