Product Portfolio or Sr Product Portfolio Manager

Are you looking for an exciting job where you can put your skills and talents to work at a company you can feel proud to be a part of? Do you want a workplace that will challenge you and offer you opportunities to learn and grow?  A  position at Xcel Energy could be just what you’re looking for.

Are you looking for an exciting job where you can put your skills and talents to work at a company you can feel proud to be a part of while helping to lower customer energy use and environmental impacts? Do you want a workplace that will challenge you and offer you opportunities to learn and grow? A position at Xcel Energy could be just what you’re looking for.

Position Summary

This position is part of the Mass Market Product Strategy team, focused on creating compelling, delightful customer journeys, bundles, portfolio and product strategies and roadmaps that deliver on Xcel Energy’s clean energy and financial objectives. You will define the future mass-market customer product strategy, in-year performance rollups, product lifecycle management and emerging technology roadmaps for mass market customer products (residential and multi-family focus). This opening is based in Denver, Minneapolis or Eau Claire and will drive effectiveness of product delivery and customer satisfaction with an emphasis on creating location-specific customer portfolio strategies and plans for non-pipeline alternatives (NPAs) or non-wires alternatives (NWAs).

Essential Responsibilities

• Responsible for the corporation's mass market energy-efficiency and electrification product market vision, plans and status to meet market segments' needs and product goals. Oversee and ensure all portfolio strategies meet corporate and customer needs.

• Define strategy for all aspects of portfolio's marketing mix including: pricing, sales channels, launch activities, acquisition and retention, life-cycle management and customer migration paths. Manage product portfolio issues across segments to meet goals. Provide work direction to achieve goals.

• Develop budgets, sales forecasts, DSM and profitability goals as part of the energy-efficiency and electrification mass market portfolio strategy. Track the progress of each portfolio (P&L) and product against target. Accountability to product P&L. Ensure programs are being implemented within regulatory policies and requirements (specific for each state).

• Drive and champion recommendations to Product Development of new technologies and product designs. Work with Product Development to create strategic alignment throughout the development process.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience working with customer portfolio and market approach to meet locational system needs

• Experience leading or owning contributions to regulatory filings

• Cross-functional team leadership

• Stakeholder outreach and engagement

• Experience with energy-efficiency and/or electrification customer product strategy, development or management is strongly preferred

• Experience in mass market customer energy products or services

• Experience with data-driven strategy development and creating requirements for visual management tools to track portfolio performance and adjust strategies to achieve goals.

• Experience developing customer portfolio life cycle management systems, product roadmaps, experience journeys and/or portfolio-level strategy and content for regulatory filings

• Salary and role hierarchy will be based on level and applicability of experience and demonstrated results

Minimum Requirements for PPM

• College degree required.

• Four years of experience in marketing, product management or product development is required.

• Team and peer leadership with excellent communications skills and proven results.

• For DSM portfolio management, two years' experience with regulatory requirements and conservation programs is mandatory.

Minimum Requirements for Sr Manager

• College degree required, or equivalent years of education and experience. MBA preferred.
• Five years of experience in marketing, product management or product development is required.
• Team and peer leadership with excellent communications skills and proven results.
• For DSM portfolio management, two years experience with regulatory requirements and conservation programs is mandatory.

As a leading combination electricity and natural gas energy company, Xcel Energy offers a comprehensive portfolio of energy-related products and services to 3.4 million electricity and 1.9 million natural gas customers acros