Senior Strategic Business Planner- Electric Vehicles

Minimum Pay Rate: $132,080.00 

Maximum Pay Rate: $174,928.00 

Apply by Date: 04/03/2024 

Posting Type: Open 

This is a critical position for the implementation of SMUD's 2030 Zero Carbon Plan. The position reports to the Manager of Program Planning & Business Process Support. The successful candidate will guide the continued development of Electric Transportation programs for SMUD in residential and commercial sectors.  The Electric Transportation portfolio of programs is adapting toward programs designed to work with customers to develop charging infrastructure and currently contains mature programs that need to evolve and programs that are currently only in concept phase but have high expectation of growth.

The successful candidate will have the responsibility to work collaboratively to guide and make adjustments to the programs to ensure they meet the needs of the Zero Carbon Plan and the SMUD grid. This candidate may also be asked to assist with other portfolios related to the Zero Carbon Plan (Energy Efficiency, Building Electrification, Load Flexibility or Green Pricing). The successful candidate may also be required to provide assistance to other staff members adding their expertise and leadership in the development and creation of other new programs or processes. Over the next few years, there will be significant growth in programs to support the 2030 Zero Carbon Plan. The growth will be in both number of programs and efforts, but also in volume. The person selected for this job will need to collaborate with a large number of departments, facilitate a constantly evolving amount of work (both new and existing work), have great organizational skills, and operate as an integral component of the SMUD community. For this position, there is also a desire for strong analytical skills

Purpose

To lead in the performance of both short and long term strategic business planning balancing the experiences and needs of customers while also focusing on internal priorities, resources and objectives. Oversee long term strategies while also delivering value to the business through short term, actionable efforts. In doing so, clearly identifies SMUD’s current state, desired state, key steps required to reach the desired state, and the benefits to our customers and SMUD. Maintains a focus on customer experience excellence; ensures achievement of department results and goals that support SMUD strategic objectives

Nature and Scope

Serves as a technical or functional expert or consultant providing expertise and/or direction in one or more areas of a professional discipline and assumes responsibility for resolving complex problems and projects; may serve in a Lead role and assist in planning, coordinating, prioritizing, monitoring and evaluating the work results in assigned area and in selecting, training, motivating, evaluating and developing lower-level personnel.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Leads and supports key business initiatives by overseeing the development of short and long term strategic and operational plans to drive and support implementation of customer programs, operational enhancements, product solutions, or other services to meet SMUDs strategic business objectives.
• Oversees the establishment of 3-year strategic and/or operating plan for assigned unit. Coordinate the monthly forecast process, ensure line of sight between project outline and delivery.
• Use existing financial models and/or develop new models, spreadsheets or other techniques to analyze financial and business planning issues. Including researching and analyzing data to identify major drivers of performance, customer experience and interpret trends to develop, present, and implement value-added solutions to optimize resources and processes.
• Define, review and monitor operational/program metrics; support requests for project maintenance and creation to ensure business alignment; collaborate with stakeholders to determine measures of success to ensure program/project changes benefits are realized; serves as a liaison between workgroup/business units to facilitate business needs.
• Develop and support recommendations with accurate financial analysis and rigorous financial or economic theory. Review analyses, reports or other decision documents prepared by other contributors or stakeholders and provide comments or additional analyses to improve the overall quality of information provided to management.
• Develop, prioritize and evaluate strategic customer initiatives including technology, energy technology and capital projects. Incorporate primary and secondary customer research to ensure that the voice of the customer is considered.
• Oversee contract management for assigned area, ensure vendors are meeting SLA, evaluate contracts and determine if extensions or a new RFP is necessary to su