Five or more years in IT procurement, strategic sourcing, or contract negotiations.
Experience in developing procurement strategies and managing supplier relationships.
Valid Class C Driver's License.
Proficiency with SAP, Ariba, and MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
Ability to conduct spend analysis, cost modeling, and financial impact assessments.
Responsibilities
Develop sourcing strategies for hardware, software, cloud, and services to support enterprise goals.
Coach and mentor direct reports, enhancing team capabilities and performance.
Effectively manage RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs in compliance with procurement policies.
Support escalated negotiations and conduct commercial analysis for savings and value outcomes.
Manage strategic supplier relationships and ensure performance and compliance through regular reviews.
Collaborate with technical teams to forecast demand and align sourcing strategies with technology roadmaps.
Ensure contracts meet legal compliance, data privacy, and cybersecurity standards.
Track and report on procurement metrics like savings, RFP volume, and category strategy progress.
Benefits
Hybrid work mode with the option to work remotely some days.
Opportunities for career growth and skill enhancement.
Access to a comprehensive Candidate Resource page with meaningful information.
Consideration for qualified applications with criminal records under Fair Chance regulations.
No relocation assistance available for this position.
Full Job Description
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 valuebased 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 multiyear 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, nancial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, condential 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 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.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience using tools such as SAP, Ariba, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Ability to develop multiyear category roadmaps aligned with business goals.
Skilled in spend analysis, cost modeling, TCO/shouldcost 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.
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.
