Principal Strategic Analyst

Requisition ID # 157927 

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

 

 

Department Overview

Utility Partnerships & Innovation (UPI) is responsible for the creation of transformative, scalable solutions to interlocking utility challenges through the development of third-party partnerships and the deployment of new technology that directly accelerates PG&E’s long-term strategy.  The Load Management Solutions (LMS) team within UPI leads the creation and execution of the strategic vision for optimizing the load management product portfolio (Energy Efficiency, Demand Response/Flexibility, Resiliency), with a core objective to optimize and balance the energy system while meeting the needs of our hometowns and managing all customer centered outcomes throughout the product lifecycle.

 

The PG&E Energy Efficiency (EE) portfolio is an integral piece of energy sustainability and creating a better energy future for our customers, which is why PG&E has worked for more than four decades to support customer efforts to reduce energy usage. Our wide range of EE programs can help keep customer energy bills affordable, reduce energy demand on the grid, build customer resiliency to climate change, and advance building decarbonization in California. As one of the nation’s largest EE programs, PG&E is helping to transform markets, set building codes and appliance standards and be the marker by which all other utilities are measured.

 

PG&E’s eight-year EE strategic plan (2024-2031) focused on three driving principles: 1. Delivering Excellent Customer Experiences through a broad array of energy-saving solutions to meet our customers’ diverse needs; 2. Environmental Stewardship by embracing PG&E’s role in achieving California’s goal of carbon neutrality and training the state to a decarbonized and more climate-resilient economy; and 3. Being a Hometown Leader by expanding customer access with more equity-based program offerings, supporting customer resiliency, and enabling the workforce of tomorrow through EE education and training.

 

This role is on the EE Portfolio Strategy and Optimization (EEPSO) Team and will report to the EEPSO Manager. EEPSO is responsible for three key areas: Portfolio Performance Management, Optimization & Targeting, and Portfolio Strategy & Planning. This work is highly cross-functional by nature and requires collaboration across PG&E, including across the broader Engineering, Planning, and Strategy (EP&S) and UPI organizations, and Gas Strategy.

 

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated, organized, analytical yet strategic thinker to lead initiatives focused in the areas of Portfolio Performance Management, and Optimization and Targeting to help PG&E deliver on its mandate for a cost-effective resource acquisition segment, further the success of our strong portfolio of EE programs, and enable meaningful contributions to California’s and PG&E’s strategic and policy objectives such as building decarbonization and flexible load management. The successful candidate will lead and support efforts to provide data-driven analysis and insights of the portfolio’s performance leading to actionable recommendations and to drive decision-making.

 

The successful candidate must be comfortable communicating with internal leaders, other IOUs, the CPUC, and other intervenors in the EE proceeding, and possess the ability to develop the appropriate communication materials for any of those stakeholders. The candidate must have strong analytical skills and the ability to solve unique and complex strategic issues and problems. This person must also be comfortable working both autonomously and in cross-functional teams. Finally, the ideal candidate must demonstrate high accountability, strong organizational and project management skills, leadership strength, and be energized and passionate about learning.

 

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job.  The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity.  We would not anticipate that the individual hired into this role would land at or near the top half of the range described below, but the decision will be dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.​

 

A reasonable salary range is:​

 

Bay Area Minimum: $136,000.00

Bay Area Maximum: $232,000.00<