Category Program Manager - Supply Chain

Category Program Manager - Supply Chain - 15431

This Project Manager will work in Supply Chain as part of a process improvement project for the Environment Services category to create operational efficiencies and support building relationships with suppliers for Environment Services.

Environment Services are critically important to BC Hydro. As leaders in managing valuable public resources, our environmental decisions matter. Our vision is to have a reliable, consistent quality, and secure supply of the environment services we need; and to prioritize more opportunities to Indigenous Nations in accordance with our Indigenous Contract and Procurement Policy.

To deliver on our vision, we're implementing a category strategy that will improve our contracting approach and end-to-end processes to create operational efficiencies and support building successful relationships with our suppliers.

The Program Manager is responsible for the successful completion of medium to high risk and highly complex business process change or similar projects safely, with quality, within budget and on time by leading cross-functional teams and applying project management principles.

Accountabilities

• Proactively identifying and planning for key interactions with stakeholders including meetings with category sponsors and regular progress reporting.
• Forecasting effort hours and securing required resources.
• Identifying and ensuring alignment on priorities.
• Managing competing priorities.
• Plan, direct, and report on business process change or similar project activities by consistently monitoring project benefits, resources, and status and creating documents such as project plans, action logs, communication plans, status reports, and post-implementation reviews so that the project is implemented as planned.
• Develop project plans and risk management plans for business process change or similar projects by identifying, analyzing, and monitoring risks for effective risk management throughout the project lifecycle.
• Complete project management activities including scoping, planning, managing, monitoring, and reporting on project tasks by using advanced skills in Microsoft Office as well as project management programs to fulfill BC Hydro's business needs.
• Maintain meaningful relationships with stakeholders through regular reporting and communication using excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills enabling timely progression of projects.
• Establish standards for implementation and monitoring using excellent analytical skills and a comprehensive knowledge of project management practices and procedures to optimize project resources.

Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, Economics, or related discipline.
• 9+ years of Project Management experience.
• Must have demonstrated experience as a Project Manager for business process improvement projects.
• Must have experience as a Project Manager in enterprise environments.
• Must have knowledge of change management principles.
• Must have proven ability to manage diverse stakeholder groups.
• Experience as a Project Manager for Supply Chain projects is an asset.
• Advanced MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project).
• Advanced English skills for professional environment, written and spoken.

This role requires regular or occasional attendance at a BC Hydro workplace, in this case, the Edmonds office in Burnaby and as such will be subject to BC Hydro's Contractor Vaccination Policy. This policy requires all contractor resources to be fully vaccinated by January 10, 2022, or prior to the work assignment start date whichever date is later.

Initial 1-year contract, extensions likely based on workload and performance.