Supply Chain Inventory Management Senior Specialist
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What you'll do
- Monitors and reports on supply chain project requirements, including material supply, transportation, and discrepancies, and field laydown yards, to support operational performance and decision-making.
- Collaborates with key supply chain and procurement stakeholders to support material planning and prioritization activities, working closely with teams to source and expedite critical materials.
- Maintains data integrity and reporting for key metrics (e.g., materials movement and handling time/efficiency, loss reporting, stock levels, and safety incident performance) to track operational performance and evaluate potential risks.
- Conducts root cause analysis of performance issues and proposes initiatives to optimize operational activities, driving continuous improvement and cost savings.
- Provides strategic recommendations and reports to management throughout the supply chain and procurement teams to support informed decision-making and align with organizational goals. Leverages expertise in data and cost analysis to monitor and track the performance of operations, identify trends, opportunities, and risks, and develop actionable insights to drive operational excellence.
- Works directly with various suppliers at tactical levels to maintain effective supplier relationships, fostering open communication, collaboration, and mutual success.
- Identifies and implements supplier performance goals related leveraging data-driven insights to drive improvements.
- 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.
What they're looking for
- Five or more years of experience in supply chain sourcing, supplier relationship management, and process optimization.
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Production & Inventory Control, Business, or a related field.
- Five or more years of experience in supply chain, inventory management, or a related analytical role.
- Experience managing inventory performance, including forecasting, demand variability analysis, and identification of supply chain risks.
- Demonstrated experience developing and recommending inventory stocking strategies (e.g., safety stock, min/max levels, service levels).
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (e.g., formulas, pivot tables, lookups) to develop data-driven analyses, reporting, and presentations.
- Experience working with SAP, EWM, or similar ERP systems to manage inventory, materials, and supply chain transactions.
- Experience managing and maintaining MRP (Material Requirements Planning) parameters, including safety stock, reorder points, lot sizing, and lead times.
- Demonstrated experience analyzing demand signals and operational requirements to optimize MRP settings and ensure material availability.
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Full description from employer
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Supply Chain Inventory Management Senior Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll execute and maintain the operational duties within the supply chain. You will primarily operate in the company’s system(s) of record, possessing advanced in-depth knowledge of SAP/EWM, Ariba, SharePoint, Samsara, Web EOC, Microsoft Excel, etc. The Senior Specialist supports the overseeing of Vendor/inventory performance, identifying risk to the supply chain, maintaining accurate supply forecast. The Senior Specialist will also support program components that affect warehouse performance, business processes, and metrics to maximize value from Supply Chain managed inventory. Possesses strong analytical skills, customer service, and understands the end-to-end Supply Chain process including Inventory Management, Warehousing and Transportation. In addition, has knowledge of warehouse KPI’s, knowledge of supply chain site capacity, planning, and multi-level MRP/ERP logic.
As a Supply Chain Inventory Management Senior Specialist, 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
- Monitors and reports on supply chain project requirements, including material supply, transportation, and discrepancies, and field laydown yards, to support operational performance and decision-making.
- Collaborates with key supply chain and procurement stakeholders to support material planning and prioritization activities, working closely with teams to source and expedite critical materials.
- Maintains data integrity and reporting for key metrics (e.g., materials movement and handling time/efficiency, loss reporting, stock levels, and safety incident performance) to track operational performance and evaluate potential risks.
- Conducts root cause analysis of performance issues and proposes initiatives to optimize operational activities, driving continuous improvement and cost savings.
- Provides strategic recommendations and reports to management throughout the supply chain and procurement teams to support informed decision-making and align with organizational goals. Leverages expertise in data and cost analysis to monitor and track the performance of operations, identify trends, opportunities, and risks, and develop actionable insights to drive operational excellence.
- Works directly with various suppliers at tactical levels to maintain effective supplier relationships, fostering open communication, collaboration, and mutual success.
- Identifies and implements supplier performance goals related leveraging data-driven insights to drive improvements.
- 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
- Five or more years of experience in supply chain sourcing, supplier relationship management, and process optimization.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Production & Inventory Control, Business, or a related field.
- Five or more years of experience in supply chain, inventory management, or a related analytical role.
- Experience managing inventory performance, including forecasting, demand variability analysis, and identification of supply chain risks.
- Demonstrated experience developing and recommending inventory stocking strategies (e.g., safety stock, min/max levels, service levels).
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (e.g., formulas, pivot tables, lookups) to develop data-driven analyses, reporting, and presentations.
- Experience working with SAP, EWM, or similar ERP systems to manage inventory, materials, and supply chain transactions.
- Experience managing and maintaining MRP (Material Requirements Planning) parameters, including safety stock, reorder points, lot sizing, and lead times.
- Demonstrated experience analyzing demand signals and operational requirements to optimize MRP settings and ensure material availability.
- Experience partnering with cross-functional teams (e.g., field operations, planning, procurement) to translate business needs into system configurations and process improvements.
- Experience in utility, manufacturing, or similarly complex supply chain environments.
- Demonstrated experience mining, consolidating, and analyzing data from multiple sources to support decision-making.
- Experience managing multiple assignments and priorities in a fast-paced environment, with strong organizational and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated experience working on cross-functional projects and applying structured problem-solving or project management methodologies.
Additional Information
- This position’s work mode is on-site. The employee will report to an SCE facility or in the field location. 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.
- Excel testing may be required for this position.
- Position will 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.
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.
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