Manager, Sourcing Portfolio

Power Generation operates and maintains PG&E's hydroelectric, fossil, solar generation, and battery storage facilities, providing approximately 5,300 megawatts of generating capacity. The team of over 900 coworkers delivers safe, reliable, and cost-effective generation in an environmentally responsible manner. Facilities include 62 conventional hydro powerhouses, a pumped-storage facility, 98 reservoirs, 168 dams, and over 200 miles of canals and flumes, as well as natural gas-fired plants, utility-scale solar generation plants, and the Elkhorn Battery energy storage facility.

About the role

The Manager, Sourcing Portfolio serves as the primary interface between Power Generation business customers and Procurement, ensuring a high-quality customer experience while delivering strategic sourcing solutions that support operational reliability, financial performance, and long-term business objectives.

The Portfolio Manager is accountable for developing and executing sourcing strategies, aligning procurement activities with business priorities, overseeing category performance, and leading strategic sourcing events from opportunity identification through contract execution. This role ensures sourcing decisions balance cost, quality, schedule, supplier capability, and risk while delivering value to customers.

This Manager leads a team of Category Leaders who, together with the Portfolio Manager, comprise the strategic sourcing organization supporting Power Generation. The team is responsible for achieving operational and financial goals through cost savings, value creation, supplier base optimization, and continuous process improvement.

The role provides leadership for Supplier Relationship and Performance Management (SRPM) across Power Generation, driving supplier accountability, strengthening strategic partnerships, and proactively mitigating supply chain risks. By leveraging market intelligence, analytics, and collaboration, the Portfolio Manager identifies efficiencies, enhances contracting outcomes, improves supplier performance, and advances a resilient, cost-effective supply chain.

This position is hybrid, working remotely and from the assigned work location in Auburn, CA, 50% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the primary interface between Power Generation and Procurement for sourcing activities.
• Interfaces with customers to develop and refine near-term and long-term sourcing strategic and tactical plans.
• Develops strategic portfolio and category plans to generate cost savings, deliver service excellence, optimize diversity spending, and improve total cost of ownership for key lines of business.
• Ensures the overall governance of the contract approval process from contract creation through contract award.
• Oversees contract spend across multiple spend categories.
• Develops short and long-term strategies for all spend categories within the portfolio.
• Leads complex cross-functional teams in the execution of strategic sourcing initiatives.
• Manages spend analysis, needs assessment, benchmarking, and business case development.
• Leads development and execution of negotiation strategies.
• Monitors and maximizes customer satisfaction using standardized client service level agreements.
• Manages supplier relationship and performance, including continuous improvement-based relationships that deliver mutually beneficial results for PG&E and its suppliers.
• Establishes service level agreements to hold suppliers accountable for performance.
• Approves purchase orders and contracts from $500,000 to $10 million.
• Directly supervises Category Leaders.

Qualifications

• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (one year of experience for every one year of college).
• 8 years of total sourcing or related industry experience; some positions may require technical/category experience.

Skills

• Ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• Ability to identify and resolve problems and implementation barriers.
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills.
• SAP/SRM proficiency (desired).

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or equivalent advanced degree.
• Six Sigma, CPSM, or other related certification.
• Project Management experience.
• Utility industry experience.
• 2-3 years of supervisor experience.

Pay

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. The actual salary will be based on skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. The range for this role in California is:

• Minimum: $133,000
• Maximum: $226,000