Senior Sourcing Specialist

ADT • Boca Raton, FL

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About The Position

The Senior Sourcing Specialist supports Senior Sourcing Managers in executing direct sourcing strategies, supplier initiatives, and commercial activities across the product lifecycle. The role is part of ADT’s Direct Sourcing Team, which sources materials, components, finished goods, and technology products incorporated into ADT’s customer offerings.

The specialist builds and maintains collaborative partnerships with internal stakeholders and suppliers, develops an understanding of critical direct-spend categories, and works cross-functionally to support sourcing strategies that meet product cost, quality, innovation, launch, and supply-continuity objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, procurement, business, technology, operations management, engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least two to three years of progressive work experience.
• 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, inquisitiveness, comfort with ambiguity, and self-motivation 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, including the ability to tailor messages to the audience and present information clearly and concisely.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, including extracting key themes, determining root causes, developing creative solutions, and crafting concise messages.
• Ability to prioritize, organize, and multitask in a flexible, fast-paced, and challenging environment.
• Strong Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word skills.
• Data-driven analytical mindset and ability to identify sourcing opportunities involving savings, cost avoidance, value engineering, process improvement, supply-risk mitigation, and supplier improvement.
• Ability to learn and quickly adopt relevant tools, technologies, product knowledge, and cost-analysis methods.
• Collaborative, proactive approach to driving results.
• Skilled negotiation with internal and external groups, balancing directness and assertiveness with diplomacy and building trust.
• Ability to focus on priorities, remove roadblocks, receive and apply feedback and direction, and manage change through formal channels and informal networks.
• Commitment to meeting internal and external customer expectations and gaining trust and respect.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in direct sourcing, direct procurement, manufacturing, electronics, product cost analysis, or contract management.
• Advanced certification such as CPM, CPSM, CPSC, or PMP.

Responsibilities

• Support direct sourcing projects and business needs involving direct materials, electronic components, finished goods, tooling, and related product technologies.
• Consult with Sourcing Managers on sourcing engagements and competitive bid events (RFI/RFP/RFQ), evaluate supplier capabilities and capacity, support negotiations, and execute contracts.
• Ensure timely contract execution and effective handoff of completed sourcing activities.
• Manage, analyze, and support projects related to new product introductions, value engineering, supplier transitions, dual sourcing, capacity planning, and end-of-life activities.
• Perform bid proposal, bill of materials (BOM), cost, and total-cost analyses; compare supplier capabilities, manufacturing solutions, technologies, quality, capacity, and commercial terms; and support supplier-selection recommendations and stakeholder approval.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior