Gerente - Soporte Empresarial

Department: Corp Security & Physical & Cyber

Job Title: Manager -Business Support

Location: Orange, CT / Boston, MA

Work Model: Office

The salary range for this position is dependent upon experience, ranging from $141,120.00-$184,400.00.

What We Offer

• Competitive benefits and growth opportunities
• Generous performance‑based bonuses
• 12% 401(k) match
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development and clear career‑advancement pathways

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Job Summary

• Responsible for managing the financial and project reporting deliverables for CSRO including, but not limited, to the development of the annual CAPEX and External OPEX budgets, monthly variance analyses and projections for capital and operating expenses for both corporate and global requirements, department-wide procurement and purchasing needs.
• Works closely with CSRO directors and managers for departmental financial and initiatives reporting to ensure budget objectives are met. This position is the CSRO interface for all CSRO financial and purchasing requirements for Global, Corporate and Operating Companies.

Key Responsibilities

• Directs Control to load approved CAPEX and OPEX budgets each year and plans funding to appropriate Project-based Analytical Orders (AOs), ensuring AOs are created accurately and in line with rate case authorization amounts in partnership with Investment Planning and Regulatory Revenue Requirements groups. Supports ESP/GSP Program and Project review boards as required for CAPEX funding (both project and program) approval. Supports Extraordinary Budget Requests submittals as required for OPEX funding approval beyond approved budget amounts. Supports rate case inquiries as a stakeholder to department responses as required. Provides departmental leadership in company-wide calls for project and program justification.
• This position will be responsible for managing procurement for the department at the Direct (<$10k), Delegated (<$75k), Agile (<$1M), and Category (>$1M) purchasing levels, using iBuy to facilitate purchases including Framework Agreement purchases and one-off purchases. This position is responsible for identifying changes to Corporate policy in purchasing, communicating those changes to the larger department, and applying changes as required. Assists technical business owners with RFP / bid package creation including scope of work development, sole source procurement justifications, and technical specifications.
• Additionally, this position manages vendor relationships as required in support of CSR tenders and projects. Additionally this role ensures Framework Agreement (FA) Managers are aware of their responsibilities and flags FA consumption issues and assisting in seeking variance (either time and/or funding variances) in FA availability in support of business needs.
• Provides leadership on various programs and projects as required by the Corporate Security leadership. Provides linkage to management staff for decision making. Manages administrative staff and vendors providing professional and technical guidance. Demonstrated ability to interface between functional groups and global peers.
• Oversees Budget Analyst role in processing PO requests from business technical owners in each vertical, completing tasks as required when Budget Analyst is unavailable. Meets regularly with Analyst to identify barriers to his or her role and to assist in process and procedure improvement to create PR/POs and PAOs with as quick a turnaround as possible in order to facilitate business operations. Provides management and oversight to end of month reporting through invoice processing and goods receipt/accrual inputs, assisting Analyst as operational tempos require. Quality checks PR/POs generated by Analyst for Control requirements, quote and receipt uploads, and goods receipting to ensure accuracy and compliance with company policies. Monitors group purchasing inbox as a secondary respondent / gap coverage for PR/PO requests.

Required Qualifications

• Higher education completion including a bachelor's degree or certification program in administration, business, purchasing, or similar field.
• 7-10 years' experience, preferably in project or technical management

Preferred Qualifications

• 7 to 10 years of work experience including SAP experience in MM Purchasing module and budget management report transactions.
• Prior project management experience, especially with project budgeting, phased budgeting, project estimating, work breakdown structures
• Prior management or supervisory experience.
• Knowledge of business and financial aspects, including some competencies in accounting and corporate finance as well as purchasing and procurement industry best practices, US GAAP, contracting review, bid creation and RFP/tender management.
• Project management skills.
• Strong understanding of accounting and budgeting
• Excellent team leader with soft skills which will apply to both subordinates, other department members, or leadership including at the VP and SVP level.
• Business communication skills from a technical perspective
• SAP technical experience
• Strong overall understanding of relevant service delivery procedures
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to multitask and complete responsible assignments on schedule
• Staff Development
• Budget Development

Competencies (this is standard for all jobs)

* Growth & Continuous Improvement

* Initiative & Change

* Focused on Results

* Customer Centric (internal and/or External)

* Communication

* Collaboration

Leadership (people managers/leaders)

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Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.

Avangrid employees may also be assigned a NERC Reliability Standards compliance role supporting Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and/or Operations and Planning (O&P) responsibilities. This is applicable to employees that will work in electric transmission, operations, and cyber security business areas in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate business areas. NERC Reliability Standards compliance roles and responsibilities may include additional access protections, training, audit engagement, and required evidence retention, and will be communicated by the employee's management.