Director, Value Delivery

Requisition ID # 164175 

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy 

Job Level: Director/Chief

Business Unit: Finance

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department Overview
The Business Finance teams provide financial planning and reporting services to PG&E and is responsible for providing strategic direction and coordination in respect to strategic functional area planning processes, financial planning, forecasting, analytics and reporting.

The Value Delivery program, part of the Business Finance team, is a transformative effort to optimize PG&E’s strategy to realize value to support the company's long-term growth while maintaining affordability for our customers. With the goal of improving our Cap/Expense ratio over a six-year period - representing $1-$2B in savings, the program will lead the enterprise plan to deliver operational efficiency and financial performance.

 

Position Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled and accomplished Director / Chief to lead and support major strategic cost reduction and performance improvement initiatives as part of the Value Delivery program across PG&E. This senior role requires a strong operational leader with a proven track record of delivering on long term and high impact transformational and continuous improvement projects. They will leverage PG&E’s performance playbook (lean, breakthrough and PSEMS) and leads through exemplary understanding and application of PG&E’s virtues, especially curiosity and tenacity.

 

Job Responsibilities 

• Leads and supports major cross-functional cost reduction and performance initiatives across workforce management, working closely with operations leadership in electric, gas, vegetation management and functional leaders in sourcing, IT and other areas
• Collaborates across organization, and other strategic initiatives, to ensure alignment of goals to support program
• Support development of materials and running of Value Delivery’s daily, weekly and monthly operating reviews and Command Center
• Identifies, tracks and communicates key trends, leading operating models, lean practices, across utilities and related industries that can be adopted across operations and functions
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to develop and execute strategies that align expense planning with projected growth while controlling costs
• Develop hypotheses, develop improvement levers, conduct detailed analysis, conduct interviews/ workshops, quantify impact, obtain business buy-in and develop roadmap
• Define & implement outcome-based metrics to support operations to deliver savings
• Leverage the Lean playbook to enhance adoption and enrollment across the organization
• Researches, analyzes, and responds to various inquiries and issues and develops recommendations to support decision making actions
• May represent the leader at various meetings and/or activities
• Coaches and mentors less experienced employees

 

Leadership Qualities

PG&E expects its leaders to conduct themselves with the highest ethics and integrity and to embody specific leadership qualities.

 

Strategic Mindset

• Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.

A Leader in the Community and Industry

• Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
• Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Demonstrates Safety Leadership

• A safety champion in words and deeds with respect to both employee and public safety.