Chief of Staff & Strategic Initiatives

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Chief of Staff & Strategic Initiatives at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll assist the senior leadership team in developing long-term strategies, making goals measurable, achievable, and aligned among teams. This involves matching departmental priorities to overall company goals and clearing obstacles to execution. As a liaison between executive leadership and employees, you'll ensure transparency and simplicity around strategic objectives, providing research, preparing briefs, and delivering insights to guide executive decisions.

As a Chief of Staff & Strategic Initiatives, 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' specific 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 in business operations analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or higher in business, technical, communications, or related discipline.

- Skilled in translating complex information into compelling, easy to understand narratives and/or high-level summaries for varied audiences.

- Experience in applying a structured problem-solving approach to improve companyperformance or deliver strategic value.

- Project management certification

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.

- 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.