Associate Director Wireline Transformation & Supply Chain Strategy

Job Description:

This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location posted.  No relocation is offered

Location: Dallas, TX

AT&T’s Wireline Transformation and Supply Chain (WTSC) Strategy Team focuses on collaborative problem-solving, strategic analysis, and analytical support to directly impact billions of dollars of AT&T’s cost structure and future investments, while driving best-in-class practices across AT&T’s vast supply chain and wireline networks.

Our Associate Director - Wireline Transformation & Supply Chain Strategy leads small teams across a wide array of projects to craft actionable, innovative recommendations for AT&T’s senior leadership. You’ll drive multiple projects to analyze the impact of industry trends, emerging technologies, macroeconomic & competitive factors, and third-party supplier spend & engagement.

You’ll lead teams to drive:

• Thought leadership and strategic analysis on fast-paced, complex opportunities and challenges facing AT&T’s Wireline Transformation and Supply Chain organization
• Fact-based negotiation support, including industry analytics, competitive event strategy, and “should cost” negotiation benchmarking
• Best-in-class market intelligence efforts including M&A monitoring, supplier financial health assessments, and supply chain visibility to best position AT&T for success
• Creative, strategic solutions to drive meaningful transformation for AT&T’s operations and cost structure

We’ve found that successful candidates on our team are motivated and analytical-minded, self-starters, strategic thinkers, and people leaders, who bring intellectual curiosity and a creative spirit to each project they own.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with management consulting, analytics, strategy, leadership, or other related experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a Supply Chain related field
• 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 (VBA preferred; ability with pivot tables, arrays, and nested-formulas strongly desired) and Microsoft PowerPoint
• Project Management experience:
  • Effective communication skills
  • Comfortable and effective working in teams and across functional groups that vary from fundamentally technical to non-technical
• Ability to provide structured thinking to deconstruct complex problems and help advance strategic initiatives with data-driven solutions
• Demonstrated capability in managing multiple projects simultaneously and delivering against tight deadlines
• Superior negotiation and persuasion skills
• Previous experience managing teams of cross-functional high-aptitude professionals

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, or another highly strategic/analytical role; ideally with exposure to the telecommunications or technology industries
• Exposure to software, mechanical, and electrical engineering concepts
• MBA preferred
• Strong understanding of applied statistics
• Practical experience building financial, statistical, and other analytical models to evaluate complex data
• Experience reverse engineering hardware or firmware; software sizing or code estimation
• Experience managing relationships and interacting with various vendors active in the telecommunications space

Successful Associate Director - Wireline Transformation & Supply Chain Strategy on our team are motivated and analytical-minded leaders who bring intellectual curiosity, exacting standards, and a creative spirit to each project they own.

This position is located in Dallas, TX.  Relocation assistance is not available.

Our Associate Director - Wireline Transformation & Supply Chain Strategy, earn between $143,800.00 - $215,800.00 USD 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, exp