What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Procurement Manager position at Southern California Edison (SCE)?
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a IT Procurement Manager at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll you'll be leading a team of high achieving individuals who will be working together to deliver high quality outcomes. As a IT Procurement Manager, 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
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 AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.
Become a IT Procurement Manager at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll you'll be leading a team of high achieving individuals who will be working together to deliver high quality outcomes. As a IT Procurement Manager, 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
- Develops and executes sourcing strategies across hardware, software, cloud, and services to align with enterprise technology goals.
- Coaches, mentors, and evaluates direct reports to build capability, improve performance, and support career growth.
- Ensures competitive events (RFPs, RFIs, RFQs) are run effectively, documented properly, and aligned with procurement policy.
- Provides support to team for escalated negotiations and commercial analysis to deliver savings, cost avoidance, and value‑based outcomes.
- Manages strategic supplier relationships, leads QBRs, and ensures performance, compliance, and innovation.
- Collaborates with tower leads, architects, and project managers to forecast demand, plan sourcing pipelines, and support technology roadmaps.
- Ensures contracts meet legal, data privacy, cybersecurity, and compliance requirements.
- Tracks savings, RFP volume, contract throughput, and category strategy progress; report results to leadership.
- Recruits, selects, and onboards new team members to support organizational growth.
- Resolves supplier issues, stakeholder conflicts, and project delays with sound judgment and diplomacy.
- Enforces procurement policies, audit readiness, and adherence to sourcing and contracting standards.
- Identifies opportunities to enhance tools, processes, and team capabilities.
- Develops multi‑year category roadmaps aligned with business goals.
- Partners with engineering to influence product design for cost and supply resilience.
- Influences senior leaders, aligning priorities, and managing competing interests.
- Leverages AI, automation, and predictive analytics in sourcing.
- 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.
- Five or more years of combined experience performing or supervising IT procurement, strategic sourcing, or contract negotiations.
- Experience in developing procurement strategies, negotiating contracts, managing supplier relationships, and partnering with IT to meet technology needs.
- Possess a valid Class C Driver's License.
- Experience using tools such as SAP, Ariba, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Ability to develop multi‑year category roadmaps aligned with business goals.
- Skilled in spend analysis, cost modeling, TCO/should‑cost analysis, and forecasting.
- Understands P&L impact, ROI, NPV, and financial health of suppliers as well as greater impact on organization
- Partners with engineering to influence product design for cost and supply resilience.
- Ability to influence senior leaders, aligning priorities, and managing competing interests.
- Leverages AI, automation, and predictive analytics in sourcing.
- 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.
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 AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.