Senior Purchasing Specialist

Southern California Edison; Rosemead (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison (SCE) seeks a Senior Purchasing Specialist to support and develop sourcing strategies for the energy infrastructure of tomorrow. You will lead competitive solicitations, supplier selection, KPI achievement, contract negotiations, and lifecycle analyses on contracts across IT, Customer Service, and professional services.

The role emphasizes risk mitigation, data-driven decision making, and continuous improvement, with a hybrid work mode in California.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in supply chain, procurement, and/or contract management.
• Experience with SAP in a purchasing environment and Ariba Sourcing/Contracting/P2P modules.
• Knowledge of procurement contracts, standard terms, and policies.

Responsibilities

• Ensures risk management, quality, ethical sourcing, sustainability and legal compliance across procurement activities.
• Updates supplier agreements and contracting policies for negotiations and internal use.
• Supports development and delivery of category or sourcing strategies and tendering events.
• Aids in developing innovative solutions and managing change in procurement processes.
• Conducts contract reviews for audit compliance and spend analysis; manages energy contracts across markets.

Skills

Supplier negotiations

Contract management

Data analysis

SAP experience

Ariba Sourcing/Contracting/P2P

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management or related field

Tools

SAP

Ariba Sourcing

Ariba Contracting

Ariba P2P

Job description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution Become a

Join the Clean Energy Revolution Become a Senior Purchasing Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll be supporting and developing sourcing strategies for the energy infrastructure of tomorrow in areas such as transportation electrification, energy efficiency, renewable energy, energy storage, customer experience, on the Operational Procurement team. The Operational Procurement team manages over $1.2 billion in annual spend for Information Technology, Customer Service, Professional Services, and Consulting Services. It’s challenging but deeply rewarding work. You’re interpersonal, analytical and problem solving skills will be fully exercised as you manage a variety of strategies that focus on value creation, cost savings, continuous improvement, and risk mitigation. You will be responsible for supporting the development and optimization of sourcing strategies and continuous improvement initiatives. You will lead/participate in competitive solicitations, supplier selection, achievement of applicable Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), contract negotiations and development. As a Senior Purchasing 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

• Five (5) or more years of experience in purchasing, contract management and/or negotiating contracts.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, or related field.
• Experience using SAP software in a purchasing environment, and utilizing Ariba Sourcing, Contracting, and P2P modules.
• Knowledge and decision making experience of purchasing practices and policies, and knowledge of procurement contracts and standard terms and conditions.

Additional Information

• This position’s work mode is hybrid. 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 and reside 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.
• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
• 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.
• The primary work location for this position is Rosemead CA.

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.