Job Abstract

Requisition ID # 157927 

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

Utility Partnerships & Innovation (UPI) is responsible for the creation of transformative, scalable solutions to interlocking utility challenges through the development of third-party partnerships and the deployment of new technology that directly accelerates PG&E’s long-term strategy.  The Load Management Solutions (LMS) team within UPI leads the creation and execution of the strategic vision for optimizing the load management product portfolio (Energy Efficiency, Demand Response/Flexibility, Resiliency), with a core objective to optimize and balance the energy system while meeting the needs of our hometowns and managing all customer centered outcomes throughout the product lifecycle.

The PG&E Energy Efficiency (EE) portfolio is an integral piece of energy sustainability and creating a better energy future for our customers, which is why PG&E has worked for more than four decades to support customer efforts to reduce energy usage. Our wide range of EE programs can help keep customer energy bills affordable, reduce energy demand on the grid, build customer resiliency to climate change, and advance building decarbonization in California. As one of the nation’s largest EE programs, PG&E is helping to transform markets, set building codes and appliance standards and be the marker by which all other utilities are measured.

PG&E’s eight-year EE strategic plan (2024-2031) focused on three driving principles: 1.Delivering Excellent Customer Experiences through a broad array of energy-saving solutions to meet our customers’ diverse needs; 2. Environmental Stewardship by embracing PG&E’s role in achieving California’s goal of carbon neutrality and training the state to a decarbonized and more climate-resilient economy; and 3. Being a Hometown Leader by expanding customer access with more equity-based program offerings, supporting customer resiliency, and enabling the workforce of tomorrow through EE education and training.

This role is on the EE Portfolio Strategy and Optimization (EEPSO) Team and will report to the EEPSO Manager. EEPSO is responsible for three key areas: Portfolio Performance Management, Optimization & Targeting, and Portfolio Strategy & Planning. This work is highly cross-functional by nature and requires collaboration across PG&E, including across the broader Engineering, Planning, and Strategy (EP&S) and UPI organizations, and Gas Strategy.

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated, organized, analytical yet strategic thinker to lead initiatives focused in the areas of Portfolio Performance Management, and Optimization and Targeting to help PG&E deliver on its mandate for a cost-effective resource acquisition segment, further the success of our strong portfolio of EE programs, and enable meaningful contributions to California’s and PG&E’s strategic and policy objectives such as building decarbonization and flexible load management. The successful candidate will lead and support efforts to provide data-driven analysis and insights of the portfolio’s performance leading to actionable recommendations and to drive decision-making.

The successful candidate must be comfortable communicating with internal leaders, other IOUs, the CPUC, and other intervenors in the EE proceeding, and possess the ability to develop the appropriate communication materials for any of those stakeholders. The candidate must have strong analytical skills and the ability to solve unique and complex strategic issues and problems. This person must also be comfortable working both autonomously and in cross-functional teams. Finally, the ideal candidate must demonstrate high accountability, strong organizational and project management skills, leadership strength, and be energized and passionate about learning.

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.  We would not anticipate that the individual hired into this role would land at or near the top half of the range described below, but the decision will be dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.?

A reasonable salary range is:?

Bay Area Minimum: $136,000.00

Bay Area Maximum: $232,000.00

&/OR?

California Minimum: $129,000.00

California Maximum: $220,000.00

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluate portfolio performance and provide data-driven insights that lead to actionable recommendations
• Frame analytic approaches and lead quantitative analyses that will yield critical answers to key questions
• Identify opportunities for targeted, cost-effective resource (savings) acquisition
• Quantitative and qualitative analysis of various topics including cost-effectiveness and total system benefit
• Support portfolio optimization efforts while balancing existing programs and new programs that will be entering the portfolio through third-party solicitations
• Conduct trend and sensitivity analyses
• Perform modeling, strategic evaluations and ad hoc analysis for optimizing portfolio and reducing risks
• Lead creation, implementation and facilitation of training on EE portfolio issues for internal and external audiences.
• Integrate industry knowledge related to data into everyday business practices and decision making.
• Provide others with guidance around complex industry regulatory and compliance environment and considerations.
• Create new and complex data models to facilitate business decisions.
• Develop new or revised existing scopes of work to ensure compliance standards and deliverables are established
• Develop highly complex data systems that have wide ranging impact and application across multiple departments
• Lead (or delegate as needed) data analyses that support PG&E’s response to external EE activity (e.g. legislation, party motions, formal or informal portfolio inquiries).
• Research and recommend portfolio actions in response to discrete events (e.g. executive calls to action, disaster relief, climate legislation).
• Develop, present, and execute upon internal EE strategy to be well-positioned to deliver for our customers, ratepayers, regulators, and internal leaders.
• Undertake other assignments of the highest complexity and impact to PG&E.
• Coach, mentor, and train others as needed.
• Solve unique and complex problems, anticipating issues and developing innovative solutions.
• Lead/coordinate major cross-functional projects and initiatives
• Work with all levels of leadership (up to and including SVP/EVP) across functions to drive and influence strategic planning and decision making.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, statistics, mathematics, business, finance, sociology, engineering, physics or other related fields or equivalent work experience
• 8 years of job-related experience in areas such as energy efficiency, strategy, policy, data analysis, financial analysis, business analytics, and/or measurement and verification

Desired Qualifications:

• Masters in Business Administration, Energy Systems, Energy Policy, or other Advanced Degree
• Knowledge and experience with energy efficiency and Total System Benefit (TSB)
• Knowledge and experience with Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and Load Management
• Knowledge and experience with California’s Avoided Cost Calculator
• Ability to present complex data and findings to internal audiences including senior and executive leaders and to external stakeholders, including using visualizations (e.g. Microsoft PowerBI) and storytelling with data
• Knowledge and experience with query languages (SQL, Microsoft Power Query, etc.)
• Experience working with relational databases
• Knowledge of California’s energy systems and markets, including the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) and Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR), and the current supply and load landscape
• Knowledge and experience with regulatory forecasting (e.g. cost effectiveness, savings, avoided cost benefits)
• Familiarity with the California Standard Practice Manual and the National Standard Practice Manual
• Ability to address complex strategic issues and takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions
• Demonstrated high level of innovative thinking focused on strategy and operational implementation
• History mentoring and teaching others as well as desire to continue to do so

Desired Characteristics:

• Innately curious
• Converts ambiguity into structure and coherent strategies
• Bias toward action
• Effectively communicates highly complex ideas with credibility, confidence, and clarity to diverse audiences using a variety of media
• Handles multiple projects and stakeholders and pushes for pace with self-directed drive
• Flexibility in project communication, execution, and problem solving, particularly when coordinating across various stakeholders
• Enjoys working on complex multi-stage projects with a diverse team