SAP Principal Program Manager

Requisition ID # 165052 

Job Category: Project / Program Management 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Information Technology

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department Overview

 

The Information Technology (IT) organization designs, develops, operates and maintains the technology and telecommunications systems that enable PG&E to meet its commitment to providing safe, reliable and affordable service to customers.

 

IT partners with the business by increasing capabilities through the development of additional functionality, implementing new technologies, reducing costs, increasing productivity, and facilitating organizational and business effectiveness through enabling technologies.

 

Position Summary

 

The SAP Principal Program Manager is a critical member of PG&E’s Propel Program’s delivery team. Propel is a major business and technology modernization program to unlock customer value by simplifying the way we work together. Propel will migrate PG&E to the new version of SAP, S/4HANA, seizing this unique opportunity for PG&E to standardize business processes, clean the technology core, and enable innovation for breakthrough change across Engineering, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Human Resources, and Information Technology. Scope of business processes include Design to Operate (DTO), Source to Pay (STP), Inventory to Deliver (ITD), Forecast to Plan (FTP), Record to Report (RTR) and Hire to Retire (HTR). Solutions include: SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SuccessFactors, Ariba, Fieldglass, EPPM, SAC, BOBJ/BW, BTP and hundreds of non-SAP applications.

 

The ideal candidate should have experience delivering SAP programs and projects and more recently have success in delivering large complex SAP S4/HANA ERP transformations.

 

 This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and the Oakland General Office(OGO) 3 days a week and or based on business needs.

 

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. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​ This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.  

 

A reasonable salary range is:​

 

Bay Area Minimum: $140,000      

Bay Area Maximum:$238,000      

 

 

Job Responsibilities

 

• Partner with system integrator to develop to support integrated project plan for the SAP ERP transformation, ensuring alignment with Fit-to-Standard and Clean Core principles across all phases—from requirements gathering to deployment.
• Coordinate with other Program/Project Managers in parallel workstreams
• Support key planning and stakeholder engagement events/ceremonies such as PI Planning, Retrospectives, backlog refinement, Daily Stand Ups/Daily Operating Reviews, Weekly Operating Reviews/Backlog Refinement
• Guide teams and leaders in Lean- Agile practices
• Contribute to comprehensive testing cycles (SIT, UAT), data migration, and cutover planning, ensuring testing and deployment activities align with SAP best practices for clean core and sustainable extensibility.
• Identify potential risks to the success of projects and develop comprehensive mitigation plans to address these risks proactively
• Lead cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration and effective communication among team members from different departments to achieve project objectives
• Regularly update stakeholders on project