Procurement Market Intelligence Senior

Requisition ID # 166264

Job Category: Accounting / Finance

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The Procurement Organization includes a staff of more than two hundred sourcing managers, buyers, analysts, and supplier diversity personnel. Our mission is to deliver cost effective and valued procurement services through strategic, diverse, and sustainable business solutions. Our work requires close integration with all lines of business, finance, and our suppliers.

The Procurement Excellence Center (PEC) is a strategic function dedicated to driving procurement transformation, operational efficiency, and value creation across the organization. Within the Procurement organization, the PEC establishes best practices, standardizes processes, and leverages advanced analytics and market intelligence to enable data-driven decision-making. The PEC collaborates with all Procurement teams to enhance capabilities, improve performance, and optimize costs. Key focus areas include market intelligence and analytics, digital procurement transformation, risk management, supplier relationship management, governance, and capability development.

Position Summary

The Procurement Market Intelligence Senior is a strategic, data-driven expert responsible for delivering deep market insights and analytics to enhance procurement decision-making. This individual contributor role focuses on leveraging data analytics, market research, and advanced modeling techniques to drive procurement excellence, support category strategy, and mitigate supply risks.

This individual will collect and analyze internal and external market data, monitor industry trends, and provide actionable intelligence to inform sourcing strategies, risk management, and cost optimization initiatives. You will work closely with category managers and senior procurement leadership to ensure data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Key responsibilities include developing and managing procurement dashboards, conducting predictive analytics on supplier and market performance, and synthesizing complex data into clear, actionable insights. The ideal candidate has a strong background in procurement analytics, market intelligence, and strategic sourcing, with expertise in data visualization tools, AI-driven analytics, and market trend forecasting.

This role requires a blend of analytical expertise, business acumen, and communication skills to translate complex data into strategic recommendations that drive competitive advantage and procurement efficiency.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and Oakland.

PG&E is providing the salary range that can reasonably be expected for this position at the time of the job posting. This salary 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, internal equity, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, and geographic location.

The decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

Pay Range display:

Bay Area – $102,000 to $145,000

Reporting Relationship

The Procurement Market Intelligence Senior will report to the Procurement Market Intelligence Senior Manager.

Job Responsibilities

- Conducts in-depth research on industry trends, supplier markets, commodity pricing, and geopolitical factors that impact procurement decisions. Become proficient with knowledge of industry, PG&E activities, the California wholesale electricity market and market participants.

- Actively work to foster good working relationship with internal stakeholders.

- Participate in stakeholder meetings and conference calls without direction.

- Take the lead on stakeholder initiatives with limited guidance, including drafting of comments and making internal presentations.

- With little direction, develop executive level presentations about the market and represent the Procurement Market Intelligence team in other meetings.

- With little direction, prepare reports to management.

- Performs advanced spend analysis and benchmarking

- Monitors market and suppliers to identify risks and recommend mitigation strategies

- Leads spend analysis, total cost of ownership (TCO) modeling, and should-cost analysis to support sourcing decisions

- Works independently and requires guidance only on the most complicated issues

Background Qualifications

Minimum

- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Mathematics,

- Requires a minimum of three years of relevant experience

Desired

- Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Engineering, Math, or Economics preferred

- Advanced degree

- 5-6 years of experience in Procurement, Procurement Analytics, Market Intelligence, or related fields

- Strategic Sourcing and/or Category Management experience

- Strong analytical skills with the ability to solve abstract problems and maintain attention to detail

- Strong communication and writing skills; able to clearly explain abstract and technical concepts

- Advanced understanding of industry and market concepts

- Ability to solve moderate to complex problems, sometimes with limited information or data

- Able to work independently with minimal guidance

- Brings new perspectives to existing tasks and solutions

- Capable of managing projects and initiatives effectively

- Strong organizational skills; able to guide and mentor less experienced employees

- Proficiency in market intelligence tools (e.g., Beroe, Gartner, Bloomberg, etc.).

- Advanced in Microsoft Office (including Excel, Access, PowerPoint)

- Experience with procurement and ERP systems (e.g., SAP Ariba)