Senior Counsel, Commercial Transactions -- IT

Requisition ID # 175288 

Job Category: Legal 

Job Level: Attorney

Business Unit: Gen Counsel, Ethics, Risk & Compliance

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The Law Department provides timely, efficient, and business-focused legal services to the company.  The Law Department’s substantive legal activities fall into a number of categories, including litigation, regulatory, transactions, and corporate services. The Commercial Law team provides strategic and transactional legal support to clients across a broad spectrum of matters, touching on all aspects of the business.  While the work is primarily transactional in nature, there may be project development and regulatory aspects, as well as contract dispute advice and counsel, to the role.

Position Summary

The Senior Counsel is responsible for providing legal support to Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Supply Chain organization, including assisting in the development and negotiation of commercial contracts that support PG&E’s utility operations.  In particular, the Senior Counsel will support the review, drafting, and negotiation of information technology (IT) – related requests for proposals and contracts.  This role will also include negotiating and providing advice and counsel for large strategic transactions, as well as assisting with contractual disputes and other contract administration advice and counsel.

The IT contracting process is a fast-paced environment requiring a responsive, thoughtful, and detail-oriented individual capable of identifying critical risks, prioritizing work, and collaborating with groups across the company. The Senior Counsel will work with other functional areas within the company when the transactions call for the necessary expertise, such as insurance, cybersecurity, AI, privacy, tax, and business and commercial requirements.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

Reporting

The Senior Counsel, Commercial Transactions reports to the Managing Counsel for Commercial Law within the PG&E Law Department.  This role is a high level individual contributor role that requires the ability to influence leaders and peers; and successfully communicating highly complex transactions.

Job Responsibilities 

• Primary legal reviewer for IT-related contracts, including software (SaaS and on-premise), managed services, staff augmentation, and hardware procurement and maintenance agreements.
• Provide counsel to PG&E’s Supply Chain organization and other business units on technology procurement, strategic sourcing, vendor performance, and other forms of key commercial agreements. 
• Develop and maintain ongoing relationships with external supply chain vendors, including leading negotiations with external partners and suppliers.
• Draft and maintain forms/templates for a variety of supply chain agreements including detailed negotiation position documents.
• Develop processes and procedures for utility requirements impacting supply chain and other business unit activities.
• Provide training to internal customers on contract drafting, negotiation, management issues and best practices.
• Support legal operations and processes, including template agreements, playbooks and back-stop negotiating and drafting positions.
• Provide practical legal advice and sound business judgment on a range of relevant supply chain legal and operational matters, including supplier risk management, corporate social responsibility, and the various requirements that impact utility supply chain activities.
• Support contract management teams with identified legal issues in connection with ongoing or completed projects and assist contract management and litigation team members with complex commercial disputes and other dispute resolution processes with general guidance.
• Coordinate with outside counsel supporting specific legal issues.

Qualifications

Background Qualifications:

Minimum:

Desired:

Leadership Qualities:

PG&E expects its leaders to conduct themselves with the highest ethics and integrity and to embody specific leadership qualities.:

Strategic Mindset:

A Leader in the Community and Industry:

Demonstrates Safety Leadership:

Influences and Inspires:

Optimizes Team Performance:

Values Inclusion and Respects Individual Differences:

Fiscally Responsible:

Leads Ethically and in a Compliant Manner:

Provides a High Level of Customer Service:

Compensation:

• 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
• We estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed within the reasonable compensation range of $213K - $306K. The decision will be made on a case-by-case basis
• This leadership role is also eligible for an annual Short Term Incentive Plan (STIP) award, as well as the Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) grant

Work for Warriors is a no-cost employment program of the California Military Department for Service Members, Veterans, and military family members. The Veteran Staffing Consultant for Pacific Gas & Electric is Martin Rivera.