Senior Business Specialist

PacifiCorp • Salt Lake City, UT

2d • $102,000 - $140,250 • Onsite

About The Position

Join a team where your ideas and analysis make a difference! In this role, you’ll advise leaders, conduct strategic analyses, and translate insights into actionable recommendations that guide business decisions. You’ll also develop and implement new strategies and programs that respond to changing conditions, helping the organization stay agile, efficient, and forward-focused.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Human Resource Management or a related field; or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A minimum of seven years experience in an applicable field directly related to position responsibilities.
• Program design skills including development of interventions, processes, or new or modified programs to meet customer needs.
• Advanced communication and interpersonal skills to interface with team members and customers to promote positive customer outcomes.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills involving the ability to establish trust, maintain confidence, and understand social behavior and interactions.
• Familiarity with enterprise resource systems.
• Ability to design reports based on customer requirements.
• Ability to work with all organizational levels to influence actions and negotiate outcomes
• Ability to listen and communicate effectively through oral and written means.
• Proficient with the use of personal computers to gather, analyze, and summarize data.
• Project management and leadership skills, including the ability to work as a team member, to maintain project timelines, budgets, and deliver on commitments.
• Knowledge of research, analysis and consulting techniques, Company policies, procedures, practices, and applicable federal, state, and local governmental laws and regulations.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to work with internal and external customers (operations, engineering, technical services, etc.)
• Clear communication skills.
• Significant experience with report and dashboard design and/or development.
• Knowledge of electrical utility industry.
• Familiarity with SAP, Maximo, Excel, and other related software.
• Familiarity with automation tools.
• Track record of maintenance program development.
• Experience working with IT system implementations and/or system testing.
• Attention to detail and compliance with industry regulations.

Responsibilities

• Promote a customer first culture and commit to delivering outstanding results for customers.
• Gather and analyze critical information (demographics, condition, costs, lifecycle) from various sources.
• Audit business system data and examine actuals against targets.
• Analyze business processes, conduct special studies, develop alternatives and present recommendations to management and influence management decisions.
• Identify and recommend long-range asset data management and system improvements to strategically balance risk and reward.
• Develop and approve long range programs for assets.
• Implement optimum life cycle and companion costs models for network assets.
• Manage the budget process to ensure that all stakeholders have their needs met.
• Report complex financial information in simple terms, and communicate throughout the organization.
• Act as expert on maintaining financial integrity of the FERC data.
• Research and analyze relevant data, evaluate complex situations, develop creative alternatives, provide recommendations, and negotiate and influence outcomes.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k with match fixed contributions, including a Roth and saving option. For union employees, matching contributions vary by union. For nonunion, PacifiCorp makes a fixed contribution equal to 4% of your eligible pay each year for new hires. In addition, PacifiCorp matches 100% of the first 6% you contribute.
• Life insurance
• Additional voluntary benefits, including pet insurance
• Tuition Assistance
• Mass Transit Pass for employees in our Portland and Salt Lake City Offices.
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) - Time off varies by employee type (Union or Non-Union)
• Paid short-term disability leave and long-term disability insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Bereavement Leave
• Employee Assistance Program supporting mental and emotional wellbeing

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior