This position is located Dallas, TX or Atlanta, GA. Relocation assistance is not available.
As a member of the Global Connections and Supply Chain (GCSC) Strategy Team, you will utilize your strategic abilities to provide actionable recommendations to the leaders of AT&T’s GCSC Organization. You’ll have the opportunity to help internal clients implement innovative solutions and best practices throughout AT&T’s sourcing processes, synthesizing facts and data from wide-ranging sources into tools and models used on the front lines of billions of dollars’ worth of negotiations.
Day-to-day responsibilities – typical tasks you will perform in this role include:
- Strategy development & consulting, focused on the following:
- Supplier engagement/management
- Industry trends and category management
- Internal AT&T practices
- Emerging technologies
- Fact-based negotiation support
- Competitive event strategy development
- “Should cost” analytical support
- Supplier spend trends & analyses
- Market intelligence
- Supplier financial risk assessments
- M&A tracking, earnings announcements, and ongoing supplier assessments
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or Supply Chain
- Typically, 3-5 years of related experience
Strategic mindset and strong analytical skills:
- Problem Solving: Aptitude to quickly understand and apply economic/business principles, recognize subtleties of complex problems, and develop innovative solutions driven or supported by data
- Modeling: Ability to work with multiple sources of (often finance-related) data, integrating fact-bases and assumptions to develop complex financial and operational models
- Technical: Advanced experience working with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint
Project management experience:
- Effective communication skills
- Comfortable and effective in working in teams and across functional groups that vary from fundamentally technical to non-technical
- Demonstrated capability in managing multiple projects simultaneously and delivering against tight deadlines
- Superior negotiation and persuasion skills
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA preferred; or, advanced degree Finance, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Supply Chain, Logistics, or similar
- Background in the telecommunications or high-technology industries
- Background in consulting, investment banking, commodities trading, or another highly strategic/analytical role
- Practical experience building financial and other analytical models to evaluate complex data
- Ability to understand mechanical and electrical engineering concepts
- Experience engineering hardware or firmware
- Experience managing relationships and interacting with various vendors active in the telecommunications space
- Previous experience managing teams of cross-functional high-aptitude professionals