Purchasing Specialist

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Purchasing Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll be supporting sourcing strategies for the energy infrastructure of tomorrow in areas such as transportation electrification, energy efficiency, renewable energy, energy storage, customer experience, and Information Technology within the Indirect Procurement (IP) team. The Indirect Procurement group 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 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?

• Assists in driving innovation, improving ways of working, and enhancing supplier management systems
• Aids in executing purchasing and sourcing strategies, addressing 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, leveraging 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.

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

• Experience using SAP software in a purchasing environment, and utilizing Ariba Sourcing, Contracting, and P2P modules.
• Experience negotiating agreements, pricing or commercial terms with suppliers or contractors.
• Experience conducting competitive Request for Proposal processes
• Experience negotiating Master Agreements, Long Terms Agreements, Terms and Conditions, or Contracts with suppliers.
• Knowledge and decision making 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.
• Ability to follow Edison safety protocols and safe work practices.
• CPM, CPSM, CPCM, CCCM, and/or PMP certification(s) .

• 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.\u202f Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California.\u202f 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.