Senior Specialist Supply Chain Strategy at American Tower in Woburn, MA

Job description

The Team We are seeking a Senior Specialist, Supply Chain Excellence to join American Tower’s Supply Chain Management organization’s Supply Chain Strategy team. The team focuses on global supply chain standardization, governance, analytics, reporting, process improvement, compliance, and scalable execution across sourcing, procurement operations, logistics, and related supply chain processes. Day to day you will develop reporting routines, analyze operational data, maintain governance documents, support process improvements, coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders, and translate supply chain performance information into actionable insights. As a Senior Specialist, you will strengthen performance visibility, improve data and reporting discipline, support adoption of standardized practices, and help advance continuous improvement across the global supply chain function. What You Can Offer Us Support global supply chain excellence initiatives across sourcing, procurement operations, logistics, supplier performance, cost management, service levels, and compliance. Develop and maintain key performance indicator frameworks, dashboards, scorecards, data definitions, reporting templates, and performance review routines that provide actionable visibility into risks, trends, and improvement opportunities. Analyze data from enterprise resource planning, source-to-pay, procurement, logistics, inventory, finance, and business intelligence platforms to identify root causes, cost drivers, service exceptions, process gaps, and operational variances. Apply artificial intelligence-enabled tools, automation, and emerging analytics methods to improve reporting efficiency, data preparation, root cause analysis, policy management, workflow support, and decision quality. Develop and maintain supply chain policies, governance documents, standard operating procedures, control frameworks, and compliance guidance for sourcing, procurement operations, and logistics. Partner with sourcing, procurement, logistics, finance, IT, business enablement, compliance, and regional teams to improve spend visibility, supplier and logistics performance, contract compliance, purchase-to-pay performance, data integrity, and reporting automation. Translate complex data and operational findings into executive-ready insights, business cases, corrective actions, and practical recommendations. Maintain the Global Supply Chain Portal as a central information hub and gateway for business users to access supply chain services, guidance, tools, resources, and support channels. Support standardization and continuous improvement projects by mapping current-state processes, defining future-state requirements, coordinating action plans, measuring benefits, and supporting adoption. Support Supply Chain Sustainability data and reporting, including data governance, metric definitions, reporting accuracy, performance visibility, and stakeholder-ready insights that support sustainability commitments and decision-making. Other duties as assigned. What You Need to Succeed Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Operations Management, Logistics, Engineering, Finance, Data Analytics, or a related field required. A minimum of 5 years of supply chain, sourcing, procurement operations, logistics, analytics, governance, operational excellence, and/or related process improvement experience required. Strong knowledge of sourcing, procurement operations, purchase-to-pay, supplier performance, logistics, transportation, warehousing, freight cost, service metrics, controls, and compliance requirements required. Demonstrated ability to build key performance indicator dashboards, scorecards, executive summaries, variance analysis, reporting packages, and performance review materials required. Experience developing policies, governance frameworks, standard operating procedures, process documentation, controls, data standards, and compliance routines required. Profici