Principal Program Manager - IT Investment Management

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Requisition ID: PCGJP00003315

Requisition Title: Principal Program Manager-IT Investment Management

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland, CA

Important Hiring Manager is expecting from Candidates

• This role encompasses all of IT, not just individual portfolios. Ideally, this person also has financial acumen and exposure to regulatory processes.
  

Position Summary

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing Programs supporting projects/initiatives within the IT Office of the CIO (OCIO) and the overall management of prioritizing ~$1.4B technology investments across IT and the enterprise. Their role is key to executing and delivering the overall IT technology portfolio strategy to ensure we provide executive management and business clear insights into the drivers of business, financial and compliance performance and risk. The program manager aids in business plan deployment, investment planning and regulatory support.

Job Responsibilities

• Ensures projects, programs and key initiatives are operating effectively.
• Responsibilities typically include some or most of the following in support of Program Management to ensure attainment of program metrics/objectives.
• Oversee and/or executes all aspects of the budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes - ensure accuracy and predictability of results and key metrics to enable planning our investment strategies with measurable outcomes, risks and assumptions
• Support/oversee centralization and organization of siloed datasets and systems to deliver insights cross-functionally
• Support regulatory strategy and planning as it relates to planning/prioritization of technology investments for IT
• Supports the design and delivery of reports and insights that analyze business functions and key operations and performance metrics.
• Analyzes portfolio financial performance and recommends changes to achieve goals; uses reporting tools to monitor portfolio activities, and regularly brief IT and business leaders on portfolio performance to enable investment strategies for planning up to 10-year horizons
• Liaise closely with Finance and other Business Units to ensure accurate & robust budget monitoring
• Develops relationship across IT and our business units, with the goal of growing meaningful relationships that will facilitate collaborations and communications.
• Manages the assessment of risks and the execution of plans to mitigate the risks for IT s investment plans
• Communicates and champions the requirements necessary to execute the IT investment portfolio.
• Develops, prioritizes, coordinates and communicates the goals and processes necessary for implementing the prioritization of the investment portfolio
• Ensures compliance to Standards/regulations and governance processes.
• Manages the identification, analysis, valuation and execution of system investments for program/project delivery and support operations; supports the management of the execution of technology roadmaps
• Proactively engage with cross functional leadership to identify opportunities for business improvement and optimization
• Support the team who manages state and federal rate cases and regulatory proceedings (GRC, TO, RAMP, and others) planning, and testimony development for IT as it relates to Planning/Prioritization of IT investments
• Support and drive interdependency with the team who defines and implements ongoing processes to support integrated regulatory planning
• Support the IT line organizations to understand roles and responsibilities, process, content, deliverables and timeframes around rate case planning to ensure alignment with Planning/Prioritizing IT investments
• Manages the assessment and mitigation of risk. Analyzes, prioritizes and consolidates this risk and assesses its potential impact to the organization/business as well as on each project individually and within the program as a whole.
• Highly skilled in PowerPoint and Excel with ability to develop executive level presentation materials
• Utilizes various tools and techniques for estimating costs associated with a project/program including physical, financial, and human capital costs.
• Leads the effort in creative approaches to problem solving and quality deliverables supporting business needs
• Accountable for negotiating conflicts and ensuring identified issues are resolved.
• Provides leadership and motivation to team members
• Ensures that the project/program/initiative outcome reflects the goals of the organization/business.
• Monitors program results against technical specifications.
• Ensures appropriate resources are assigned to each project/program/initiative.
• Develops and manage to a set of meaningful metrics to demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of the team on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis.
• Develops and manages department budgets, regularly monitoring expenses against forecast, providing explanation or justification for budget items and/or variances.
• Identifies new partners, technologies, and delivery channels.
• Strong communication skills (oral and written) across internal and functional areas, providing information or exchanging data together with ability to communicate up to executive level leaders

Qualifications Minimum:

• Bachelor s Degree or equivalent experience
• Job-related experience, 10 years

Desired:

• Masters Degree in Business Administration or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• Regulatory background/experience
• People Leadership experience, IT-Information Technology and Finance
• PMI-Project Management Institute PMP-Project Management Professional certification
• Ability to foster a work environment in which individuals collaborate in pursuit of a common mission and mutual goals
• Extensive knowledge of spreadsheet software, data visualization tools,
• Extensive knowledge of financial modeling methodologies & techniques
• Experience in program management, financial management, & product/project analysis