Corporate Services Procurement Senior Specialist

Southern California Edison; Rosemead (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison seeks a Corporate Services Procurement Senior Specialist to provide technical and commercial procurement expertise for consulting and professional services, MSOs, and corporate projects. You will negotiate favorable terms, manage supplier relationships, and drive cost, risk, and performance outcomes aligned with our business strategy.

You will work hybrid in California, supporting sourcing events, contract reviews, and category strategies while protecting sensitive

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in supply chain, procurement, and/or contract management.
• Experience negotiating contracts and/or managing the RFP process.
• Ability to present recommendations and communications to all levels of the organization.
• Experience with Ariba and SAP.
• Experience purchasing consulting and professional services.

Responsibilities

• Ensures risk management, quality, ethical sourcing, sustainability and legal compliance are in line with policies.
• Updates supplier-provided agreements and contracting policies for negotiations and usage by internal stakeholders.
• Supports development and delivery of category or sourcing strategies and management of tendering events.
• Aids in developing and implementing innovative solutions to resolve complex issues using change management strategies.
• Conducts contract reviews for audit compliance and spend analysis to assess long-term agreement requirements for operations.
• Supports development of category strategies representing requirements of business plans and regulators.
• Utilizes complex data sets to identify new opportunities to drive benefits through contracts lifecycle and assess risk/gap issues.
• Protects all assets and manages private data with high standards of conduct and integrity.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, or related field

Tools

Ariba

SAP

Job description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Corporate Services Procurement Senior Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’llprovide technical and commercial procurement expertise, supporting sourcing and contracting activities for consulting and professional services, Managed Service Organizations (MSO), corporate services and special projects. This role applies knowledge to negotiate favorable commercial terms, manage supplier relationships, and deliver cost, risk, and performance outcomes aligned with business strategy. As a Corporate Services Procurement Senior Specialist, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

• Ensures key aspects relating to risk management, quality, ethical sourcing, sustainability and legal compliance are in line with the company's policies.
• Updates supplier-provided agreements as well as contracting policies and procedures for negotiations and governing use by internal stakeholders.
• Supports the development and delivery of category or sourcing strategies and management of tendering events.
• Aids in developing and implementing innovative solutions to resolve complex issues, utilizing organizational readiness change management strategies.
• Conducts contract reviews for audit compliance and spend analysis to assess long-term agreement requirements for operations to ensure supply of materials through a proactive supply chain model. Manages day-to-day Energy contracts across various regulated and de-regulated markets.
• Supports the development of category strategies representing requirements of our business plans and commitments made to regulators and customers.
• Utilizes complex data sets to aid in identifying new opportunities to drive benefits through contracts lifecycle and performs analysis in order to identify risk issues and gap identification.
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in supply chain, procurement, and/or contract management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, or related field.
• Experience negotiating contracts and/or managing the Request For Proposal (RFP) process.
• Ability to present recommendations and other communications regularly to all levels of the organization.
• Experience with Ariba and SAP.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including oral presentations, formal correspondence and contractual documentation, group facilitation, and negotiations.
• Experience purchasing consulting and professional services

Additional Information

• This position’s work mode ishybrid.The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work andreside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage.The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• Relocation does not apply to this position.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at [e-mail] or [phone] and select option 2.