Business Transformation & Readiness, Senior Advisor

Job ID: 2595

Job Family: Transmission & Distribution

Location: Pomona, CA, US

Pay: $157,800 – $236,700

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Business Transformation & Readiness, Senior Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll be at the forefront of driving transformation by engaging with operational and business stakeholders to ensure process improvements are understood, conduct thorough evaluations of business processes to identify change impacts, and work closely with leaders to understand, improve, and support change management plans, business readiness and/or training. As a 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?

The NextGen ERP program will span the next 5 years leveraging emerging digital solutions in concert with re-imagining and transforming our current processes and organization to make dramatic improvements to operational performance, as many companies are doing across industries. We are looking at an approach that not only upgrades the systems but also transforms our business processes to enhance efficiency, improve data quality, and provide better integrated decision making across the enterprise. We are currently in the implementation phase of a major ERP transformation program, leveraging a hybrid agile approach to motivate change. This effort goes beyond a system upgrade—it’s a fundamental redesign of our core financial processes. Our goal is to streamline operations, enhance data accuracy, and enable integrated, enterprise-wide decision-making. The Finance Integration track plays a critical role in delivering these outcomes.

As a Business Transformation & Readiness, 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

- Develop and execute a comprehensive transformation strategy that aligns with the company’s goals and objectives.

- Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure the organization remains competitive and innovative.

- Analyze the current state of the organization and perform impact assessments around processes, systems, and culture, to identify areas for improvement.

- Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and budgets to ensure successful delivery of transformation initiatives.

- Monitor and evaluate progress against targets, identifying areas of improvement and making necessary adjustments.

- Engage and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization, including senior leadership, to gain support and alignment for the transformation efforts.

- Serve as lead on implementation teams and the single point of contact for assigned technology workshops as well as oversee the development of tools, data readiness efforts, and processes needed to ensure a successful implementation of Asset Management principles and asset integration business planning

- This position is expected to be a subject matter expert.

- Provide strategic guidance and mentorship to junior team members, fostering a culture of learning and development.

- 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 business operations and/or transformation experience.

Preferred Qualifications

- Five or more years of experience with business transformation readiness, organization change readiness, or related business transformation projects.

- Five or more years of experience with business readiness tasks, such as training, technical and operational user readiness, impact and readiness assessments, and overall organizational preparedness for successful deployment and post-deployment/ hypercare phases.

- Experience handling activities/ projects delivered by the Service Integrator (SI) scope of work, including quality and timely acceptance of deliverables from the SI.

- Five or more years of experience and proficiency with MS Office 360 applications, including Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business Administration, Economics, Organizational Development, or related field.

- Project Management Certification and/or experience working with hybrid Waterfall/ Agile approach.

- Experience conducting and facilitating large scale projects and end to end project management skills.

- Two or more years of experience and working knowledge with SAP/ ERP applications/ modules, with deep understanding of related business processes and operating models spanning one or more business process domains.

- Experience with major business transformations, such as CSRP

- Experience in either training program development and delivery or organizational change management or preparing and ensuring large-scale business readiness

- Collaborative and able to quickly build trust and engender consensus from diverse groups; Exceptional communication skills, written and verbal, along with negotiation and influence skills.

- Experience serving as a change agent and innovative problem solver with ability to influence change.

- Experience working with Copilot, ChatGPT, GPT-3 and/or other GenAI technologies

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.

- The primary work location for this position is Pomona, CA (Pomona Innovation Village). However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at other SCE locations.

- 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 (833) 343-0727.