Manager, Sourcing Portfolio

Manager, Sourcing Portfolio

Location: Auburn, CA

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid

• Position Type: Direct Hire
• Pay / Salary: $165,000-$200,000 / Year (USD)

The Manager, Sourcing Portfolio serves as the primary interface between Power Generation business customers and Procurement, ensuring a high-quality customer experience while delivering strategic sourcing solutions that support operational reliability, financial performance, and long-term business objectives. The Portfolio Manager is accountable for developing and executing sourcing strategies, aligning procurement activities with business priorities, overseeing category performance, and leading strategic sourcing events from opportunity identification through contract execution.

Through strong stakeholder engagement and demand planning, the Portfolio Manager ensures sourcing decisions balance cost, quality, schedule, supplier capability, and risk while delivering value to customers.

This Manager leads a team of Category Leaders who, together with the Portfolio Manager, comprise the strategic sourcing organization supporting Power Generation. This team is responsible for achieving operational and financial goals through cost savings, value creation, supplier base optimization, and continuous process improvement. The role provides leadership for Supplier Relationship and Performance Management (SRPM) across Power Generation, driving supplier accountability, strengthening strategic partnerships, and proactively mitigating supply chain risks.

By leveraging market intelligence, analytics, and collaboration across the organization, the Portfolio Manager identifies efficiencies, enhances contracting outcomes, improves supplier performance, and advances a resilient, cost-effective supply chain that supports the safe and reliable generation of electricity.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location 50% of the time. The assigned work location is Auburn, CA.

• Serves as the primary interface between Power Generation and Procurement for sourcing activities
• Interfaces with customers to develop and refine near-term and long-term sourcing strategic and tactical plan
• Develops 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 supplier relationship and performance management, including continuous improvement-based relationships that deliver mutually beneficial results for the client and its suppliers
• Establishes service level agreements to hold suppliers accountable for performance
• Approves purchase orders and contracts within designated authority range
• Directly supervises Category Leaders

• 8 years of total sourcing or related industry experience; some positions may require technical/category experience

• Project Management experience
• Utility industry experience
• 2-3 years of supervisor experience

• Ability to lead cross-functional teams
• Ability to identify and resolve problems and implementation barriers
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills

• MBA or equivalent advanced degree
• Six Sigma, CPSM, or other related certification
• SAP/SRM proficiency

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required (one year of experience for every one year of college)
• MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred

• Hybrid work model: 50% remote office, 50% at assigned work location in Auburn, CA

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

This client is a leading utility and energy company delivering natural gas and electric service to approximately 16 million people across a 70,000-square-mile service area spanning northern and central California - making it one of the largest combined energy utilities in the United States. With roughly 25,000 employees, the organization operates some of the most complex energy infrastructure in the country, including transmission lines, pipelines, substations, and generation facilities.

The company is actively navigating the intersection of traditional infrastructure and emerging clean energy solutions, creating strong opportunities for supply chain, procurement, sourcing, systems, and technology professionals who want to build careers at…