Principal Manager, Systems Innovation

Southern California Edison (SCE)

$130K — $180K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of team supervision or project management experience.
  • Background in strategy consulting, venture capital, investment banking, or corporate strategy.
  • Master's degree in Engineering, Data Science, or Business preferred.
  • Professional Engineering license or relevant advanced certifications is a plus.
  • Experience in electric utilities or advanced technology development.

Responsibilities

  • Shape SCE's strategy using analytical and creative thinking to meet business goals.
  • Define and revise corporate strategies based on market direction and competitive landscape.
  • Direct project delivery to meet key metrics and contractual obligations.
  • Manage corporate development processes like acquisitions and partnerships.
  • Develop and manage strategic acquisition pipelines for business units.
  • Oversee annual strategic planning aligning with business objectives.
  • Lead initiatives to improve operational efficiency through innovation.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with flexibility in remote work.
  • Commitment to diversity and inclusion, accommodating applicants with disabilities.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development.
  • Potential relocation assistance.
  • Up to 30% travel required within service territory.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

  • Shapes SCE's overall strategy, leveraging analytical, problem-solving, critical thinking and creativity skills to help achieve the overall business objectives.
  • Denes, articulates and adjusts corporate strategy and goals based on current and potential direction of the market, competitive landscape, and nancial position of the business.
  • Directs the delivery against key metrics, milestones, KPIs, and contractual obligations for a portfolio of projects to encompass expectation setting and management against quality, time and nancial objectives.
  • Manages all elements of the corporate development process, including target identication, target cultivation, strategic rationale, valuation, due diligence, negotiations, deal strategy contract management, and integration.
  • Leads and oversees active corporate development processes, including acquisitions, partnerships, and divestitures, informing and partnering with internal and external stakeholders throughout the process.
  • Develops and actively manages strategic acquisition funnels and pipelines at the business unit and enterprise level.
  • Oversees and manages the annual strategic planning process for SCE ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
  • Supports and contributes to the company's overall sustainability and ESG strategy, ensuring alignment with the company's business objectives.
  • Leads and directs the creation, incubation, development, and commercialization of the company's new growth businesses.
  • Designs and creates multiple innovation-led initiatives to improve workow eciency across the operations.
  • 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

  • Seven or more years of experience supervising a team of direct reports and/or project management.
  • Experience in strategy/management consulting, venture capital, investment banking, or corporate strategy.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Master's degree or higher in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science, or Business.
  • Professional Engineering (PE) license or relevant advanced certifications.
  • 10 or more years of progressively responsible experience in electric utilities, infrastructureintensive industries, advanced technology development, or system innovation, including substantial experience leading large organizations and cross-functional teams to deliver measurable operational, financial, or strategic impact.
  • Experience leading large, crossfunctional efforts with measurable operational, financial, or strategic impact.
  • Experience leading business case development and investment strategies.
  • Track record of technology evaluation, pilot execution, and transition to deployment or operational use.
  • Experience working across engineering, operations, IT, cybersecurity, and external partners in a regulated or missioncritical environment.
  • Deep familiarity with advanced grid technologies, such as advanced sensing, AI/MLenabled analytics, digital twins, advanced communications, automation, DER integration, or customeredge technologies.
  • Strong external engagement skills, including work with technology vendors, research institutions, national labs, or industry consortia.
  • Ability to represent the organization in industry forums, executive briefings, or regulatoryadjacent discussions.


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.
  • Position will require up to 30% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
  • Relocation may apply to this position.

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