Senior Specialist i Sourcing

Become a Sourcing Senior Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you will 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 Senior 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 a Sourcing 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 using SAP software in a purchasing environment, and utilizing Ariba Sourcing, Contracting, and P2P modules.
• Experience sourcing services.
• Experience of purchasing practices and policies, and knowledge of procurement contracts and standard terms and conditions.
• 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.
• CPM, CPSM, CPCM, CCCM, and/or PMP certification(s).

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.
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• 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.