Sourcing Specialist

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Southern California Edison is looking for a Sourcing Specialist to support strategic sourcing initiatives across multiple energy infrastructure categories. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders and suppliers to deliver procurement solutions that drive value, innovation, and risk management while aligning with safety and sustainability goals.

You will develop sourcing strategies, lead competitive events, negotiate contracts, and manage supplier performance within a hybrid work model

Qualifications

• Three or more years of experience in supply chain, procurement, and/or contract management.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Develop sourcing strategies aligned with business goals.
• Lead competitive procurement events and negotiate terms.
• Manage supplier relationships and performance.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to deliver value.
• Support risk management and due diligence for sourcing.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of procurement processes.

Skills

Supply chain

Procurement

Contract management

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in related field

Tools

SAP

Ariba Sourcing

Ariba Contracting

Ariba P2P

Job description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Sourcing Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll support the development and execution of strategic sourcing initiatives that enable the energy infrastructure of the future. As a member of the Operational Direct Services Procurement Team, you will collaborate with internal stakeholders and suppliers to deliver procurement solutions that drive value, innovation, operational excellence, and supplier performance. This position supports a diverse portfolio of critical sourcing categories across multiple business lines, including: Line construction, engineering and design services, civil construction, vegetation management, transmission and substation construction, generation services, major capital project construction, environmental services, and corporate real estate support. The Sourcing Specialist will be responsible for developing sourcing strategies, leading competitive procurement events, negotiating commercial agreements, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring alignment with SCE’s goals for safety, reliability, sustainability, and cost effectiveness. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to projects that support California’s clean energy transition while partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver critical infrastructure solutions that power communities and strengthen the electric grid. As aSourcing 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

• Assists in driving innovation, improving ways of working, and enhancing supplier management systems. Aids in executing purchasing and sourcing strategies, addresses short-term and long-term material requirements to achieve the purchasing performance metrics of timely delivery, right quality and optimum cost.
• Assists with the undertaking of analysis supporting the resolution of risk issues and gap identification.
• Participates in the negotiation process to achieve best value and commercial terms and conditions of moderately complex purchase orders, change orders, requests for proposals, and contracts/agreements.
• Aids in training peers and other stakeholders on the procurement process.
• Helps maintain effective stakeholder relationships with internal customers to become a trusted business partner.
• Aids in identifying critical suppliers and creates appropriate engagement plans to ensure the supply chain risk profile and inputs to continuous improvement are proactively managed.
• Helps understand supplier's position, desired outcomes, and leverage points and establishes structured negotiation plans with clarity of desired outcomes, leverages stakeholder input and support where appropriate.
• 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

• Three 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 using SAP software in a purchasing environment, and utilizing Ariba Sourcing, Contracting, and P2P modules.
• Experience of purchasing practices and policies, and knowledge of procurement contracts and standard terms and conditions.
• Experience sourcing services.
• Experience with industry best practices, standards, utility regulations, procedures and compliance as they relate to purchasing.
• Experience prioritizing and managing multiple projects simultaneously, and analyzing information and making strategic decisions regarding scope, impact, policy, development, and implementation.

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.
• 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.
• 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.