Category Manager

Description

• Establishes strong business relationships with key business partners and clients across Operating Units and external organizations
• 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.
• Identifies, drives, and implements suitable procurement approaches to deliver lowest total cost and cost savings strategies across the organization
• Ensures that corporate procurement policy and procedure is being followed
• Develops and establishes category management in accordance with the overall best practices, procurement strategy, processes and procedures and ensures category management delivers against targets and objectives
• Identifies and executes purchasing opportunities through internal stakeholder collaboration and external market research
• Identifies and implements continuous improvement opportunities, assessing current and future business processes for best work practice, as well as innovative procurement solutions that provide cost savings and process efficiencies for the organization
• Reviews and negotiates company-wide commercial agreements for various scopes of work
• Negotiates contracts and reviews opportunities to reduce costs using negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods
• Develop skills and knowledge to become subject matter expert in managed spend categories

Requirements

• Seven or more years of experience in supply chain, procurement, and/or contract management.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Supply Management, Operations, or a related field.
• Experience implementing and improving procurement tools and strategies.
• Experience communicating with internal and external partners and recommending solutions to executive leadership.
• Experience collaborating with clients, including independently identifying client needs, developing action plans, identifying deliverables, and presenting results.
• Certifications such as: Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM), Certified Professional in Supply Chain Management (CPSM), Certification in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM), Project Management Professional (PMP)
• 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.
• Experience analyzing large datasets to identify patterns and provide data-driven recommendations.
• Understands and applies business tools (financial, logistical, commercial, risk, cost analysis, etc.) to attain desired results
• Position may require up to 20% traveling (which may include overnight) and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
• Experience integrating strategies with technology solutions such as Ariba, SAP, and related platforms.

Benefits

• 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.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance