Principal Manager, Systems Innovation

, 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

• Shapes SCE's overall strategy, leveraging analytical, problem-solving, critical thinking and creativity skills to help achieve the overall business objectives.
• Defines, articulates and adjusts corporate strategy and goals based on current and potential direction of the market, competitive landscape, and financial 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 financial objectives.
• Manages all elements of the corporate development process, including target identification, 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 workflow efficiency across the operations.
• 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.

• 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.

• Master's degree or higher in

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• Professional Engineering (PE) license or relevant advanced certifications.

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of progressively responsible experience in electric utilities, infrastructure-intensive 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

with measurable operational, financial, or strategic impact.

• Experience leading business case development and investment strategies.
• Track record of

or operational use.

• Experience working across

in a regulated or mission-critical environment.

• Deep familiarity with

, such as advanced sensing, AI/ML-enabled analytics, digital twins, advanced communications, automation, DER integration, or customer-edge technologies.

• Strong external engagement skills, including work with

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• Ability to represent the organization in

• This position's work mode is

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.

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• 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.