Strategic Business Operations Senior Advisor

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Strategic Business Operations Senior Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll act as a strategic partner and provide a variety of professional support to the Senior Vice President, Vice President, and, at times, other senior executives in System Planning & Engineering. The successful candidate for this position will assist in developing and executing near- and long-term departmental strategies and goals; lead and provide oversight of strategic projects; advise on strategic issues; provide key support during emergent and critical situations and day-to-day activities; manage senior-level meetings; develop materials for executives; act as a liaison between leaders, employees and other stakeholders; promote alignment and teamwork across the department; support departmental employee communications, engagement and culture; and identify and address any continuous improvement opportunities.

As a Strategic Business Operations Senior Advisor, 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

• Drives the delivery of analytical support to the enterprise, optimizing the collection, analysis and reporting of data, which enables successful completion of key business operations projects
• Acts as a key consultant to stakeholders, presenting complex analytical findings and making recommendations as to their impact on business operations
• Creates and monitors performance dashboards to track and analyze Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in order to optimize process improvement activities, and support portfolio operations in developing performance metrics
• Evaluates business operations processes and recommends actions to increase efficiency and productivity while reducing costs
• Performs analyses and evaluates business operational risk requirements, identifying suitable risk mitigations and communicating them to leadership
• Meets with stakeholders to identify their projects' specifics requirements, recommends applicable tools, and provides periodic updates through to project completion
• Optimizes the development of business plan scenarios to evaluate different priorities and potential options to achieving the enterprise's objectives
• Works with business planning and performance management teams to develop option sets to meet business planning scenarios considering financial, operational, and regulatory risks and constraints
• Trains newly hired analysts on various aspects of the job they will be undertaking through mentorship
• Drives the validation of established processes to ensure alignment with relevant rules, principles, laws, and industry standards with the goal to safeguard assets, minimize errors, and ensure operational activities are performed to mitigate risk
• 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.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Ten or more years of experience performing business operations analysis.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, liberal arts or related degree
• Seven of more years of experience managing significant cross-functional projects
• Experience in managing and/or working within the engineering and/or core operations of a utility or similar company
• Strong project management, analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, with ability to interact with all company levels
• Ability to provide functional direction with significant influence on high-level staff/managers
• Ability to translate complex engineering verbiage into digestible easy to understand language for executive presentations and employee communications
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Agile, with a sense of urgency and the ability to work under pressure on multiple projects
• Knowledge of Company and department policies, objectives, strategies, goals.
  
  

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 may require up to 25% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
• Relocation does not apply to this position.
  
  

About Southern California Edison

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.

At SCE, we celebrate our differences. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected 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 (833) 343-0727.