Senior Sourcing Specialist

Summary:

The Direct Sourcing Team drives significant value for ADT by sourcing the materials, components, finished goods, and technology products incorporated into ADT’s customer offerings. Join this ambitious and collaborative team and make an impact at a company that provides safety to millions of people every day. This role supports Senior Sourcing Managers in executing direct sourcing strategies, supplier initiatives, and commercial activities across the product lifecycle.

As a member of the Direct Sourcing team, you are responsible for creating and maintaining collaborative partnerships with internal stakeholders and suppliers. You will build a strong understanding of critical direct spend categories and work cross-functionally to develop and execute sourcing strategies that achieve product cost, quality, innovation, launch, and supply-continuity objectives.

Duties and Responsibilities:

- Support a wide array of direct sourcing business needs and projects involving direct materials, electronic components, finished goods, tooling, and related product technologies.
- Consult with Sourcing Managers to support direct sourcing engagements and competitive bid events (RFI/RFP/RFQ), evaluate capabilities and capacity, support negotiations, and execute contracts that deliver high-value outcomes.
- Ensure timely contract execution and effective handoff of completed sourcing activities.
- Manage, analyze, and support direct sourcing and supply chain projects across new product introductions, value engineering, supplier transitions, dual sourcing, capacity planning, and end-of-life activities to deliver best value, reduce risk, and improve processes for ADT.
- Perform bid proposal, BOM, cost, and total-cost analyses; compare supplier capabilities, manufacturing solutions, technologies, quality, capacity, and commercial terms; and support recommendations for final supplier selection and stakeholder approval.

Competencies:

- Data-driven, analytical mindset with the ability to identify direct sourcing opportunities, including product cost savings, cost avoidance, value engineering, process improvement, supply-risk mitigation, and supplier continuous improvement.
- Eager to learn and able to quickly adopt new tools, technologies, product knowledge, and cost-analysis methods relevant to direct sourcing.
- Work collaboratively and proactively to drive results.
- Negotiates skillfully in tough situations with both internal and external groups while gaining trust quickly with all parties. Can be direct and assertive as well as diplomatic.
- Spends time on what’s important, eliminates roadblocks, and creates focus.
- Ability to adequately receive feedback and direction from the Sourcing team/leadership and quickly apply changes and/or strategic guidance to the task at hand.
- Strong change management skills and ability to get things done through formal channels and informal networks.
- Dedicated to meeting the expectations of internal and external customers, gains trust and respect.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, procurement, business, technology, operations management, engineering, or a related technical field, with at least two to three years of progressive work experience. Experience in direct sourcing, direct procurement, manufacturing, electronics, product cost analysis, or contract management is preferred.
- Advanced certification (e.g., CPM, CPSM, CPSC, PMP) is a plus.
- Strong understanding of direct category management, strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, contracting, and supply continuity principles and their application.
- Strong financial and analytical skills, including spend analysis, bid comparison, cost-driver analysis, and total-cost evaluation.
- Strategic orientation, inquisitive, comfortable with ambiguity, and self-motivated to identify trends and improvement opportunities aligned with business objectives and strategic plans.
- Ability to build effective relationships, influence peers and key stakeholders, and build consensus.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to tailor messages to the given audience and present information in a clear and concise manner.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills with ability to extract key themes, determine root causes, develop creative solutions, and craft concise messages.
- Ability to prioritize, organize, and multitask in a flexible, fast-paced and challenging environment.
- Strong Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word skills.