Principal S2P Business Process Analyst

PG&E; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the energy sector is seeking a Principal Business Process Analyst to drive supply chain initiatives as part of a major modernization program. This hybrid role requires expertise in Source to Pay processes and collaboration across multiple teams. The successful candidate will play a key role in standardizing business processes and enhancing data quality to support technological innovation. This position offers significant career growth potential and the chance to impact the organization’s strategic goals.

Qualifications

• 8 years of job-related experience.
• LSS-Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification required.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of supply chain initiatives.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration to achieve strategic objectives.
• Manage major cross-functional projects and initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical

Problem Solving

Communication

Change Management

Education

Bachelors Degree in Business Administration

MBA or equivalent graduate degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Project

Visio

Job description

Requisition ID# 164751

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

Enterprise Business & Technology Modernization is a cross-functional organization leading PG&E's Propel program, a major business and technology modernization initiative designed to unlock customer value by simplifying collaborative work processes. Propel will migrate PG&E to the new version of SAP, S/4HANA, presenting a 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. Through a phased approach, Propel will implement process standardization, operating model changes, data improvements, SAP, and other technology applications with a focus on incrementally improving business capabilities and delivering value.

Enterprise Business & Technology Modernization is comprised of multi-disciplinary coworkers with deep functional and industry expertise to design and implement end-to-end business processes and technology solutions following industry-leading practices. The team partners closely with IT and external partners to work collaboratively with many stakeholders to adopt standard processes and maximize the use of out-of-the-box proven technology solutions to meet business needs. Each role in this department offers immense career growth potential and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to accelerate the outcomes of our True North Strategy and deliver for our customers.

Position Summary

The S2P Business Process Analyst, Principal will play a pivotal role in PG&E's Propel program, leading the implementation of key supply chain initiatives as part of our broader business and technology modernization efforts. This role requires a deep understanding of Source to Pay (STP) processes and solutions including requisition to approval, PO management, CLM (Guided buying, catalogs, services procurement, and supporting systems (Ariba, SAP.) The ideal candidate will possess the ability to drive cross-functional collaboration to achieve strategic objectives and will be responsible for ensuring alignment with Propel's goals of standardizing business processes, enhancing data quality, and enabling technological innovation for the future state STP design.

Reporting Relationship

The S2P Business Process Analyst, Principal will report directly to the S2P Business Strategy, Senior Manager.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned location 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 thejob posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will bebased on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience,market value, geographic location, and internal equity.Although we estimatethe successful candidate hiredinto this rolewill beplaced between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decisionwill be made on a case-by-casebasis related tothese factors.

This job is also eligible to participate inPG&E's discretionary incentive compensation programs.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $136,000

Bay Area Maximum: $232,000

Job Responsibilities

• Recognized STP subject matter expert who represents procurement teams and stakeholders in the overall S/4Hana Modernization program.
• Supports all project phases as representative of the procurement process in design workshops, socialization, and confirmation, business requirements for L3/L4processes.
• Facilitates socialization of future state design concepts with peers.
• Validates/confirms business requirements against documented regulations and procedures.
• Identify gaps and cross functional design requirements and solve unique and complex problems, anticipating issues and developing innovative solutions.
• Performs root cause analysis on the most complex processes that have cross functional impact.
• Works with senior management to support strategic planning and decision making in relation to organizational and cross functional business processes.
• May manage major cross-functional projects and initiatives

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelors Degree in Business Administration or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• Job-related experience, 8 years
• LSS-Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification

Desired:

• Proven track record of successfully working in cross-functional projects and teams.
• Strong change management mindset
• Excellent communication, leadershipand stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• MBA or equivalent graduate degree
• LSS Black Belt
• Depth and breadth of expertise in multiple qualitative and quantitative analytical methods, approaches and tactics.
• Possesses unique subject matter expertise in root cause analysis and process improvement concepts, methods and techniques.
• Creative and strategic problem-solving skills to develop new, innovative process solutions.
• Strong analytical and writing skills to create compelling business cases based on complex business environments and inputs.
• Influence, negotiation & persuasion skills to gain agreement on recommended process improvement.
• Advanced project management skills & knowledge to lead the largest most complex projects across the line of business supported.
• Excellent organizational, prioritization and multi-tasking skills.
• Deep knowledge and expertise of business and or industry drivers.
• Adaptable to changing business conditions and ambiguity.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office, Project, Visio or similar software.