Principal, True North Strategy

Requisition ID # 154774

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Position Summary

The True North Strategy Principal plays a key role in the organization by keeping PG&E focused at it's long term objectives, enabling meaningful improvements and impacts for its customers and shareholders over time

The role leads strategic development, guidance, and decision-making support throughout the enterprise. It will set and implement a standard approach across these areas, improving organizational interdependence, ownership, and quality. This person will work closely with senior executives, along with line of business planning functions across the company, to maintain high transparency and alignment of these impacts.

The True North Strategy Principal is responsible for driving cohesive long-term strategy across multiple lines of business and layers of organizational hierarchy, facilitating executive decision making to drive progress.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The preferred work location is Oakland, CA.

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: $136,000

Bay Area Maximum: $232,000

Job Responsibilities

• Manages strategy development process facilitation across the enterprise

• Improve strategic decision quality through standardization and management

• Pressure test business unit strategies

• Ensure common factbase is used across all business units

• Drives strategic alignment and interdependence as strategy moves to implementation

• Owns business development priorities until they can be handed off to the relevant BU

• Engages with BU strategy & planning teams on industry trend research

• Ensures common fact bases for Bus is developed

• Manages internal consulting for BUs/functions to support strategy development

• Ensures coordination across strategic efforts by managing engagement / communications calendar and facilitating intra-company communication

Required Capabilities:

• Portfolio management and integration of diverse subjects

• Highly organized with attention to detail

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate clearly & synthesize messaging

• Ability to simplify and reduce issues to their fundamental causes

• Ability to build escalation processes and drive to resolutions

• Requires experience managing highly dynamic situations

• Ability to deliver constructive feedback

Desired Qualities

• Experience across utility operations, finance, and policy & regulatory strategy

• Easy to work with (needs to coordinate across many different stakeholders); personal resilience in managing relationships

• Collaborative but authoritative in decision making and driving alignment

• Proactive and analytical

• Organized

• Goal-oriented

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Business, Finance, Sociology, Policy, Engineering, Physics or other related fields or equivalent work experience

• Minimum 8 years of progressive experience.

Desired:

• Graduate degree.

• Outstanding communication skills - verbal and written.

• Outstanding judgment and decision-making.

• High degree of emotional intelligence - including ability to interact, collaborate, and influence at the executive level.

• Highly organized, with demonstrated ability to balance multiple priorities at once.

• Exceptional discretion handling sensitive issues and confidential information.

• Ability to own tools; experience with visual management.

• Strong skills in project management, benchmarking, and continuous improvement.

• Exceptional self-starter.

• Ability to work calmly under pressure.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Demonstrated knowledge of PG&E business, technology, policy and industry trends.

• Demonstrated ability to navigate large, complex organizations and achieve results.

• Ability to coach, mentor, and provide respectful feedback.