AT&T Internal Consultant Supply Chain - Dallas/Atlanta
AT&T Supply Chain and Fleet Operations
Each year AT&T purchases a substantial amount of products and services that span the gamut of network equipments. AT&T generally purchases finished products from the manufacturer or through their authorized distributors and value-added resellers.
AT&T Supply Chain and Fleet Operations serves as the umbrella organization responsible for
negotiating and contracting for goods and services for the AT&T enterprise. AT&T is constantly seeking out ways to improve its performance and reduce costs. Such improvements come from many sources, including leveraging volumes and standardizing products to reduce costs, partnering with suppliers to optimize performance and applying more sophisticated warehousing and distribution techniques to gain efficiencies.
AT&T also pursues more holistic negotiations methodologies such as clean sheeting, which is a fact based mechanism to understand the sub-costs of each product and work towards a collaborative discussion to reduce costs with our suppliers.
AT&T Internal Consultant Program:
A clean sheet consultant will be an active member of a new entrepreneurial group within AT&T Supply Chain and Fleet Operations that will be responsible for managing and implementing clean sheet based process improvements, models and negotiations across various areas of spend. Clean sheet consultants will work collaboratively with sourcing contract managers across multiple products to craft negotiation strategies. Key responsibilities will also include:
• Process improvement analysis:
o Identify areas of opportunity improvement leveraging a variety of analytic tools including lean and six sigma
o Work to put in place metrics and governance systems to ensure value capture
• Clean Sheet Modeling:
o Building and maintaining clean sheet cost models for technology spend items -- including hardware, software, and services
o Maintaining databases of key inputs used for updating models
• Supporting Negotiations:
o Engaging collaboratively with sourcing managers to prepare RFPs for network OEMs
o Providing insights into supplier's market dynamics by monitoring and reporting on market trends affecting sourcing leverages
• Clean Sheet Capability Building:
o Training and educating relevant AT&T staff in clean sheet methodology and negotiations
o Continuous enhancement of how clean sheet is applied to network equipment
• Providing guidance to Commodity Managers and Directors :
o Ensure overall quality of assumptions and logic in ""clean sheet"" models - pressure testing inputs to make sure the arguments are strong
o Checking logic to make sure it adheres to the clean sheet standards - e.g., assumptions are based on best-in-class performance / ""lean"" principles
Qualifications: REQUIRED SKILL SET
Educational Background:
Academic : B.S. in finance, economics or engineering, with advanced degree preferred
Understanding of telecom space : Preferably had worked in a major software group of telecom infrastructure industry within an OEM, telecom carrier, market research firm, or similar
Analytical Knowledge
Modeling: ability to work with multiple sources of data and assumptions, generate effective scenario and sensitivity analysis to test and refine estimates
IT Tools: advanced experience in working with Microsoft excel (macro, pivots, etc) and highly proficient in Microsoft Access
Market Knowledge: adept at understanding and communicating market dynamics of network equipment suppliers
Project Management:
Cross Functionality : comfortable and effective in working across various groups that vary from fundamentally technical to non-technical
Time Management : demonstrated capability in managing multiple projects simultaneously
Relationship Management: experienced in managing relationships and interacting with various vendors active in the telecom space
The largest communications company in the United States. And the world. We are the industry leaders in providing wireless service, high speed internet access, local and long distance voice, and directory publishing and advertising services across the US. We are also developing our business to include next-generation television services with our new AT&T U-VerseSM TV.
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