Principal Manager - Legal Operations and Support

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Date: Jul 18, 2025

Location: Rosemead, CA, US, 91770-3714

Company: Southern California Edison

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

 

Become a Principal Manager - Legal Operations and Support at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll lead legal operations and support for SCE’s legal functions in Law, Claims, Worker’s Compensation and Disability Management departments

 

As a Principal Manager - Legal Operations and Support, 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

  • Leads legal administrative and operations functions based on the legal service delivery goals
  • Designs and delivers ongoing training to ensure all stakeholders are engaged with critical legal issues and are aware of best practices
  • Designs processes to select, manage, and evaluate outside counsel, including requests for proposals
  • Develops and champions the usage of technology to ensure and enhance the Legal Department efficiency
  • Designs and implements a metric framework in order to monitor progress and measure success against strategic plans
  • Oversees and manages the legal department annual budget and designs methodology processes for annual and quarterly forecasting and budgetary control
  • Provides creative thinking to help identify and develop strategies for increasing value and reducing outside legal spend while maintaining excellent legal representation and optimizing engagement with legal vendors
  • Designs and measures performance against budgets, and provides recommendations to assure adherence to budget
  • 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

  • Seven or more years of experience supervising a team of direct reports and/or project management.
  • Experience in a legal environment to understand legal processes, terminology, and operations in reviewing and analyzing case-related documents and records.

Preferred Qualifications

 

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in business or related field preferred.
  • Experience in a law firm or in-house legal department strongly preferred, including strong understanding of processes for serving and filing in various courts of law, regulatory filings with various agencies, service of litigation discovery, legal records management, legal matter management systems, and various other legal administrative functions. 
  • Experience developing budgets, negotiating contracts, and managing vendor invoices also strongly preferred. 

 

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 (833) 343-0727.