**Job Description:** **Minimum 5 days per week in office** **Relocation: Not offered** **Location: Dallas, TX** **About AT&T:** 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. **Overall Purpose:** Leads and optimizes the sourcing of technical products and services, ensuring cost-effective procurement, quality, and compliance with industry standards to support organizational objectives. **Key Roles and Responsibilities:** + Strategic Sourcing and Procurement: Lead and oversee strategic technical sourcing initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, cost-effectiveness, and quality standards through supplier rationalization and selection. + Contract Negotiation and Compliance: Prepare, negotiate, accept, and manage commercial contracts and subcontracts, ensuring compliance with industry standards, company policies, and regulatory requirements, and monitor agreements to protect AT&T. + Operational Efficiency and Transformation: Implement continuous improvement initiatives, manage activities to enhance operational efficiency, and execute transformation/optimization projects to support evolving network requirements and critical program objectives. + Performance Monitoring and Client Satisfaction: Track key performance indicators (Kepis), ensure adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans, and performance requirements, and use client satisfaction surveys and project monitoring to resolve issues and measure success. + Supplier Relationship Management and Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build and maintain strong relationships with technical suppliers, oversee supplier performance evaluations, partner with other business units to align sourcing activities with business objectives, and advise upper management on contractual rights and obligations. **Job Contribution:** Designs and executes strategies that support the overarching philosophy of the organization. Oversees departmental programs and are often hands-on with the design and implementation of applicable strategies. Typically leading large teams, supervising supervisors as well as career-level staff within the organization. Responsible for influencing decisions regarding hiring, firing, disciplinary action, promotional activity, and pay decisions for subordinates. **Supervisor:** Yes **Education** : Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) desired; MBA preferred **Experience:** + 10+ years of Category Management + 3+ years managing Category Management professionals + Deep experience using benchmarking to inform negotiations strategies + Experience transforming software sourcing organizations using best practices + Experience executing software category strategies + Experience developing supplier sourcing roadmaps + Experience with developing C suite stakeholder relationships **Compensation:** Salary Range: $174,000 - $261,100 USD annually, individual starting salary within range depends on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training. **Perks and Benefits:** + Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage + 401(k) plan + Tuition reimbursement program + Paid Time Off and Holidays (at least 23 vacation days annually plus 9 company-designated holidays) + Paid Parental and Caregiver Leave + Additional unprotected sick leave beyond legal requirements (may be available) + Adoption reimbursement + Disability benefits (short-term and long-term) + Life and Accidental Death Insurance + Supplemental benefit programs including critical illness, accident hospital indemnity, and group legal + Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) + Extensive employee wellness programs + Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans, accessories, internet (fiber where available), and phone services **Why a Career with AT&T?** A career with us, a global leader in communications and technology, comes with big rewards. You’ll lead transformation surrounded by trailblazing industry leaders. Empowered to go above and beyond, you will make a difference through company-sponsored initiatives and networking via employee groups. Wherever you are in your career, you’ll be rewarded by the impact you make in the lives of millions. With AT&T, you’ll be part of something greater, do incredible things, and be rewarded with a chance to change the world. AT&T considers qualified applicants for employment in a manner consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Ready to close the deal on a career with AT&T? Apply today. **Weekly Hours:** 40 **Time Type:** Regular **Location:** Dallas, Texas **Salary Range:** $174,100.00 - $261,100.00 It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made. AT&T will consider for employment qualified applicants in a manner consistent with the requirements of federal, state and local laws We expect employees to be honest, trustworthy, and operate with integrity. Discrimination and all unlawful harassment (including sexual harassment) in employment is not tolerated. We encourage success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or employment status