Lead Sourcing Management

Job Description:

Office Presence: Minimum of 5 days per week (No relocation offered)

Location: Atlanta, GA, Dallas, TX

Join AT&T and reimagine the communications and technologies that connect the world. Bring your bold ideas and fearless risk-taking to redefine connectivity and transform how the world shares stories and experiences that matter. When you step into a career with AT&T, you won’t just imagine the future—you’ll create it.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Build and deploy Mobility Device, Broadband, and/or Accessories strategies aligned with clients' needs for assigned categories
• Create and execute contracts, determine optimal contract terms and pricing, and drive savings
• Provide interpretation of terms and conditions of contractual obligations and act when contractual provisions are not met by the supplier (e.g., termination letters, bankruptcies, breach notifications)
• Negotiate contract modifications, quotations, revisions, terms, and conditions with suppliers
• Coordinate required approvals based on the document being negotiated
• Responsible for the review and administration of long-term and/or blanket purchase contracts
• Oversee contract issues, negotiations, and/or administration of licensing agreements including renewal, new business, and consolidations
• Develop financial models, including present mode of operation (PMO) and future mode of operation (FMO) comparisons
• May recommend strategic technical alternatives for planning, transformation, and evolution in support of corporate initiatives, customer demand, technology changes, economic and service reliability criteria

Skills:

• The ability to exercise sound judgment when selecting methods and evaluation criteria for obtaining results or evaluating supplier responses
• Effective collaboration skills – you’ll work across all levels of leadership
• The ability to stay current on market intelligence to assist in negotiation effectiveness
• Preferred: Previous experience with or knowledge of assigned sourcing categories or category management, financial analysis, and/or legal experience
• The ability to apply knowledge appropriately when evaluating new information technologies
• Resolution skills – you’ll face a wide range of sourcing issues
• The ability to manage intense workloads within short timeframes, a process-oriented approach
• Strong leadership, negotiation, legal drafting of custom language, and communication skills
• A passion for and natural curiosity about consumer products. You must like working hard and overcoming challenges
• The ability to demonstrate sound judgment, common sense, and a good sense of humor with strong business acumen

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate/Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with Procurement, Business Law, or CPM experience, or Graduate/Bachelor’s degree. Juris doctor degrees a plus
• 5+ years’ experience in the management of supplier relationships and contracts
• Business, cost management, and quality experience
• Skilled in creating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and “What-If” scenario financial modeling and analysis for comparative sourcing events
• Understanding of contractual T&Cs including intellectual property ownership
• Ability to generate comprehensive deal sheet terms by fully understanding client requirements, demand/usage and budget forecasts, supplier products/services, and defining flexibility terms to adequately support contractual use by multiple business units

Compensation:

Our Lead Sourcing Management earn between $94,300.00 - $141,500.00 USD annually in Atlanta, GA. Our Lead Sourcing Management earn between $105,600.00 - $158,400.00 USD annually in Dallas, TX. Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
• Adoption Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Extensive employee wellness progr