Strategic Business Planner II

Minimum Pay Rate: $119,641.60 

Maximum Pay Rate: $158,433.60 

Apply by Date: 08/22/2024 

Posting Type: Open

 

This posting intends to fill one(1) regular full-time position and establish an eligibility list which may be used to fill future regular full-time or limited term vacancies over the next two (2) years. 

 

SMUD's Sustainable Communities & DEIB Partnerships team is seeking a highly motivated and strategically minded individual to join our team as a Strategic Business Planner. This individual will serve as a subject matter expert in energy equity, supporting key business initiatives by developing short and long term strategic and operational plans to drive and support implementation of Sustainable Communities & DEIB programs. This individual will research and synthesize relevant energy policy and identify trends in energy equity programs and services, ensuring our team’s roadmap is aligned to SMUD’s enterprise strategy.

 

This is a critical position ensuring an inclusive and equitable implementation of SMUD's 2030 Zero Carbon Plan. The position reports to the Manager of Sustainable Communities and DEIB. The successful candidate will guide the continued development of programs and initiatives related to our portfolio of programs which may include DEIB programs and initiatives, Sustainable Communities partnerships, Community Impact Plan, Shine Awards, Shade Tree Program, and support for technology and grant related efforts involving under-resourced community funding. The person selected for this position will 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.

Purpose

To perform both short and long term strategic business planning balancing the experiences and needs of customers while also focusing on internal priorities, resources and objectives. Produce 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 an advance journey-level resource in a relevant professional discipline; works independently on projects of moderate complexity; exercises independent judgment and discretion within established broad guidelines; may serve in a Lead role and assist in planning, coordinating, prioritizing,  and monitoring the work results in assigned area.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinate and support key business initiatives by developing 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.
• Establish 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.
• Oversees contract management for assigned area, ensure vendors are meeting SLA’s, evaluate contracts and determine if extensions or a new RFP is necessary to sustain business processes/needs.
• Establish delivery tactics, budgets, key performance indicators and metrics within the planning framewo