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Requisition ID # 172590

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy

Job Level: Senior Manager

Business Unit: Strategy & Growth

Work Type: Hybrid

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Department Overview:

The Electric Risk & Compliance organization provides governance, oversight, and strategic direction on risk and compliance matters across Electric Operations, ensuring alignment with enterprise policies and external/internal regulatory requirements. It partners cross-functionally to manage compliance requirements, strengthen controls, and enable risk-based oversight through effective monitoring, data, and reporting. The Compliance Insights team provides strategic, comprehensive data analysis, reporting, and data-driven insights that support Electric compliance, investigations, and risk management.

Position Summary:

The Senior Manager of Electric NERC Compliance provides strategic leadership for NERC compliance by guiding mitigation planning, shaping risk-based decisions, aligning cross-functional partners, and influencing policy and regulatory strategy across WECC, FERC and CAISO. It also leads organizational execution by building strong internal controls, driving key initiatives, monitoring business KPIs and indicators, and developing high-performing teams to strengthen compliance outcomes and enterprise readiness.

Leaders within Electric Risk & Compliance consistently show strengths in:

• Leading alignment and integration of initiatives; providing visibility into progress; facilitating cross-functional working groups and committees; and ensuring consistent communication in executive updates.
• Establishing and reporting on KPIs; partnering with data, analytics, and operational teams; and identifying gaps and trends to drive corrective action plans.
• Managing complex, multi-year strategic efforts that advance electric risk mitigation and regulatory readiness; driving project planning and budget management; and tracking and mitigating program risks and dependencies.
• Developing consistent governance frameworks and processes; standardizing operational rhythms; and ensuring documentation and audit trails support regulatory requirements.
• Serving as a strategic thought partner to senior leaders; preparing high-quality executive presentations; and fostering a collaborative environment by building strong relationships across diverse teams.

The selected candidate must live within PG&E’s service territory and will be expected to work in the office 2-3 days/week.

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 towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​

A reasonable salary range is:​

Bay Area Minimum: $​159,000.00

Bay Area Maximum: $​271,000.00

California Minimum: $​151,000.00

California Maximum: $257,000.00

Responsibilities:

• Develops, monitors, analyzes, and reports on signposts that may affect the Company’s ability to meet its goals.
• Identifies and analyzes emerging challenges and opportunities, assessing business impact and offering solutions.
• Develops recommendations on how the Company can position itself to take advantage of opportunities and proactively adjust and prepare for challenges, mitigating risks.
• Manages staff to accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, and rewards and recognition.
• Collaborates with subject matter experts across the Company to develop and manage execution plans for key strategic initiatives.

• Oversight of ongoing mitigation plans filed with the Regional Entity (Western Electric Coordinating Council [WECC]); leads partnership with Electric Engineering and asset management business units on the development of mitigation plans.
• Leads partnership with controls verification team on development and implementation of test plans, incorporating any findings into improvements in NERC compliance; Identifies opportunities for new internal controls; helps build additional internal controls.
• Oversight of annual gap analysis; identifies gaps between compliance requirements and guidance documentation.
• Oversight of investigations into compliance issues with NERC--with a focus on O&P standard family; provides strategic direction regarding areas of NERC compliance in common with CPUC, OEIS, and CAISO.
• Supports development of compliance narratives and RSAW documentation; oversight of WECC/FERC audits; provides input into FERC/NERC policy as it pertains to development of new and/or revised NERC Reliability Standards.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, economics, business administration or job-related field or equivalent related work experience
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience with steady progression of responsibilities
• 2 years of leadership experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Master's degree in engineering, economics, business administration or job-related field
• Electrical engineer with experience in the utility industry to support technical interpretations and implementation of new compliance requirements
• FERC/NERC utility policy experience or utility operational experience
• Regulatory, analytical, communications or public affairs related position
• Electric industry experience
• Experience in leadership or leading teams
• Advanced understanding of meaning and rationale of contract provisions; counterparty concerns; and the implications of specific contract language
• Ability to synthesize and distill highly complex data and findings to present in verbal and/or written format to diverse audiences; to lead Company regulatory activities and to lead discussions of gas procurement issues
• Advanced collaboration and interpersonal skills to effectively build relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders
• Ability to employ extensive subject matter expertise to anticipate and resolve complex issues with minimal information or supervision of a manager or director
• Ability to analyze complex problems and make decisions despite incomplete information and limited time
• Provides direction, training, guidance, and instruction to regulatory analysts in a work environment that fosters teamwork, information and experience sharing, constructive communication and professional and individual development
• Strong presentation skills
• On-depth knowledge of technical and professional concepts related to strategy and planning
• Exceptional understanding of the energy landscape
• Knowledge of process improvement and driving change
• Ability to synthesize complex information – both quantitative and qualitative, and deliver impactful presentations to influence change
• Ability to influence and build relationships, especially on cross-functional teams