WGL - Manager, PMO Program Planning and Performance

Position Summary

The Manager, Program Planning and Performance is a people leader responsible for coordinating Washington Gas’s (VA, DC, and MD) capital program planning activities, forecasting, financial performance monitoring, resourcing, contracting support, and maintaining associated decision documentation within the Project Management Office (PMO). This role ensures alignment between strategic business objectives, project execution plans and financial governance processes. The manager works with executive leadership, finance, engineering, construction, and project teams to improve portfolio visibility, cost predictability, contracting/resourcing and overall program performance.

• Lead project and program planning activities across multiple programs in Virginia, Maryland and DC.
• Develop and maintain portfolio financial data, schedules, and execution strategies in a consistent manner.
• Lead the team responsible for invoicing, cost analysis, and controlling a $2B five‑year capital plan.
• Coordinate a cross‑functional capital program and project planning effort between PMO, Finance, Engineering, Construction, and Procurement teams to ensure portfolio objectives are met.
• Provide annual and multi‑year capital improvement planning processes, governance and documentation.
• Develop, maintain, and improve governance processes related to corporate capital investment planning tool and associated resource planning.
• Monitor program milestones, dependencies, risks and resourcing with budgets, program plans and competing priorities.
• Ensure budget alignment with approved business cases and funding authorizations and comply with applicable processes and policies.
• Evaluate impacts of scope changes, schedule shifts and emerging business needs.
• Develop annual capital budget submittals for programs and projects to align company objectives with financial and execution plans.
• Lead reforecasting through coordination across capital stakeholder groups to keep portfolio‑level project plans and financial plans in sync.
• Provide recommendations for leadership; analyze forecast variances, spending trends, earned value and financial performance indicators.
• Partner with Supply Chain on contract structuring, pricing analysis, cost escalations and cost control measures related to construction and paving.
• Support long‑range financial planning and scenario analysis and enterprise resource capacity planning and workload forecasting.
• Assist leadership in strategic investment planning and prioritization.
• Support organizational planning initiatives and PMO maturity improvements.
• Develop and/or support responses to regulatory data requests and fulfill obligations from Business to Internal Audit, External Audit, SOX Controls and related project planning or performance requests.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business Administration, Project Management, Finance or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Seven years of experience in PMO, project controls, program management, financial planning or capital program management.
• Experience managing large‑scale capital programs or utility/infrastructure portfolios preferred.
• Strong experience with budgeting, forecasting and portfolio reporting.
• Experience working with executive leadership and governance boards.
• Working knowledge of the utility regulatory process and experience preparing support artifacts for regulatory or legal use.
• Demonstrated knowledge of corporate accounting and budgeting processes.
• Proven ability to develop strategies to correlate and leverage systems data to measure and manage processes.
• Working knowledge of federal, state and local regulations for natural gas systems (e.g., DOT CFR 49 Part 192a).
• Strong organizational and leadership skills to redirect resources to meet changing business needs.
• Ability to assess strategic implications of decisions and possible scenarios.
• Ability to establish rapport, negotiate agreements and resolve disputes with involved parties.
• Ability to conceptualize and analyze multiple scenarios to solve broadly defined business problems and work across units to implement solutions.
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