Technology Vendor Manager

Requisition ID # 174368 

Job Category: Project / Program Management 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Technology & Security

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview 

The Office of the CIO (OCIO) represents the cross-functional IT Management capabilities that enable running the business of IT. The OCIO focuses on supporting IT's operation model by ensuring a consistent, transparent, and efficient approach to the way the IT organization delivers value to its partners. The core of the OCIO consists of four areas essential to the long-term success of IT: Contract Management, Business Operations, Program Management Office, and Investment Management. 

  
Position Summary 

The Technology Vendor Manager serves as a strategic partner and trusted advisor in managing the organization’s technology vendor ecosystem. This role bridges business strategy, IT leadership, and vendor relationships to ensure technology investments deliver maximum value, are cost-optimized, and align with long-term capital and operating plans.  

The Technology Vendor Manager has a genuine passion for operational excellence and vendor management, possesses robust communication and interpersonal skills, demonstrates high analytical capabilities, is vendor-focused, team-oriented and highly capable of working independently and cross functionally to meet PG&E operational and business objectives.  

The Technology Vendor Manager will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Operations, Architecture, and Sourcing, to define vendor-specific requirements, and oversee performance through KPIs and SLAs. Success in this role requires agility in communication, with the ability to engage confidently with executives while working closely with technical teams and individual contributors. 

The Technology Vendor Manager plays a critical role in aligning vendor strategy with the organization’s technology and business objectives. This position works across operations, enterprise architecture, sourcing, and IT leadership to manage vendor and support program reporting to executives to enable strategic decision-making. The role ensures technology purchases are optimized, integrated, and aligned with the company’s multi-year capital and expense investment plans. 

PG&E is providing the full salary/pay range for this position. The actual amount 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 range to reasonably expect will be around the minimum and the midpoint $85,000 - $106,000. The final decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to the factors above. This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.   

Bay Area Min: $ 85,000 

Bay Area Max: $ 127,000 

Job Responsibilities 

• Through strong partnerships with internal stakeholders – including sourcing, IT, architecture, finance, legal and business teams – ensures vendor relationships contribute measurable results to PG&E performance objectives 

• Partner with Operations, Architecture, IT Leadership, and other stakeholders to align and document vendor capabilities 

• Manage the full lifecycle of vendor relationships, including onboarding, governance, performance reviews, and contract compliance. 

• As a senior individual contributor within the Vendor Management function, this role ensures suppliers deliver consistently against contractual commitment, service level agreements, and compliance requirements while driving operational excellence and innovation 

• Manage vendor relationships across the lifecycle, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technology roadmap 

Other duties include:

• Build strong, value-driven relationships with key suppliers to drive:
• Performance accountability
• Innovation and continuous improvement
• Ensure alignment between vendor capabilities and Digital strategy and priorities
• Cost Optimization
• Identify and support execution of cost optimization opportunities across all strategic vendor engagements
• Partner with Supply Chain to institutionalize end-to-end visibility into vendor spend, including, Professional services and staff augmentation, SaaS and subscription costs
• Deliver standardized reporting and dashboards to provide vendor-level spend insights
• Define and track clear savings targets and value realization metrics

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