Manager, Vegetation Management Strategic Sourcing
Content + Source + Freshness • 13 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Strong value due to the strategic importance of the role in sourcing, potential for meaningful cost savings, and robust salary range.
- Managerial position with strategic influence on spending
- Focus on sustainability and supplier diversity
- Competitive salary range ($140,000 - $238,000)
Pros
- Opportunity to shape procurement strategies in a large utility
- Focus on sustainability and supplier diversity
- Attractive salary range for managerial roles in procurement
Cons
- High level of responsibility with significant budget management
- Requires extensive experience in sourcing and procurement
- Potentially limited work-life balance due to the managerial role
Who it's for
Managerial • Hybrid (remote and in-office)
Good fit
- Experienced procurement managers
- Candidates with a focus on sustainability
- Professionals looking to lead sourcing initiatives
Not recommended for
- Newcomers without procurement experience
- Individuals preferring operational over strategic roles
- Those not interested in utilities or slow-paced environments
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Requisition ID # 165978
Job Category: Procurement / Supply Chain
Job Level: Manager/Principal
Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Oakland
Department Overview
The Procurement organization is the functional lead for the procurement of materials and services at Pacific Gas and Electric Company. The department collaborates with internal clients and suppliers managing more than $12 billion of annual company spend to develop mutually beneficial total value solutions for goods and services. The department provides the following services to internal clients: procurement of goods and services, strategic sourcing and cost savings, category management, supplier relationship management, execution and outreach, compliance management, ongoing procurement field support and management of the source to pay cycle.
Position Summary
The Manager, Vegetation Management Strategic Sourcing role is responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies that align with the goals of the Vegetation Management portfolio across all business lines and broader enterprise objectives. This position leads strategic sourcing, category management, and supplier governance to drive performance, cost savings, sustainability, and supplier diversity. The role works closely with internal stakeholders to ensure sourcing activities meet operational needs and capital projects while identifying opportunities for process improvements, standardization, and increased value. This is a highly collaborative role that plays a key part in strengthening sourcing outcomes and enhancing the client experience within the portfolio.
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and Oakland.
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: $140,000
Bay Area Maximum: $238,000
Reporting Relationship
The Manager, Vegetation Management Strategic Sourcing will report to the Senior Director, Construction Services Strategic Sourcing
Job Responsibilities
- Establish a high-performance team to develop strategic portfolio and category plans to generate cost savings, deliver service excellence, optimizes diversity spending and total cost of ownership for key lines of business.
- Ensures the overall governance of the contract approval process from contract creation through contract award.
- Oversees contract spend across multiple spend categories
- Develops short and long term strategies for all spend categories within portfolio
- Leads complex cross-functional teams in the execution of strategic sourcing initiatives
- Manages spend analysis, needs assessment, benchmarking and business case development
- Leads development and execution of negotiation strategies
- Monitors and maximizes customer satisfaction using standardized client service level agreements
- Manages continuous improvement-based relationships that deliver mutually beneficial results for PG&E and its suppliers
- Establishes service level agreements to hold suppliers accountable for performance
- Approves purchase orders and contracts from $500,000 to $10 million
- Directly supervises Sourcing Supervisors, Category Leaders and Sourcing Specialists.
- Develop work processes and procedures aligning to organizational requirements
Background Qualifications
Minimum
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required (one year of experience for every one year of college)
- 8 years of total sourcing or related industry experience; some positions may require technical/category experience
Desired
- MBA or equivalent advanced degree
- Strategic Sourcing experience, Project Management experience, Utility industry experience
- 10 years of total sourcing experience or related industry experience
- 5 years of supervisor experience
- SAP/SRM proficiency
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams
- Ability to identify and resolve problems and implementation barriers
- Demonstrated leadership and management skills
