Acuity Inc.

Role Description We are seeking a Senior Cost Accountant to support and strengthen inventory and manufacturing cost accounting processes in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. This role will be responsible for key month-end close activities, inventory valuation, standard cost maintenance, variance analysis, account reconciliations, journal entries, audit support, and process improvement initiatives. The Senior Cost Accountant will partner closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and Tech teams to resolve costing issues, improve financial accuracy, and provide meaningful analysis that supports business decisions. This position can be based anywhere in the United States, with a preference for candidates located in or near the Atlanta, GA area. Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions) - Own key inventory accounting activities, including inventory valuation, standard cost maintenance, intercompany inventory transaction balancing, and related month-end close journal entries. - Prepare and analyze inventory and cost accounting reconciliations to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with US GAAP. - Research and resolve inventory costing issues, including uncosted materials, cost variances, transaction discrepancies, and differences between operational activity and accounting records. - Maintain and update standard costs, freight, duty, tariff, and other inventory cost components in Oracle or related ERP systems. - Support annual standard cost updates and provide analysis of the financial impact of cost changes. - Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and Tech to investigate root causes, resolve inventory and costing issues, and strengthen related processes and controls. - Support physical inventory counts and related documentation. - Support audit requests and SOX Controls. - Develop and monitor operational and accounting KPIs to identify opportunities to improve accuracy, timeliness, and efficiency across cost accounting processes. - Lead or contribute to process improvement initiatives, system enhancements, reporting automation, and cross-functional projects impacting inventory and cost accounting. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. - 3+ years of cost accounting experience, including experience in inventory accounting in a manufacturing environment. - Working knowledge of US GAAP inventory accounting concepts and standard costing. - Experience with Oracle ERP or another large ERP system strongly preferred. - Advanced Excel and database skills; experience with Power BI, Onestream or other reporting and automation tools is a plus. - Strong communication skills with the ability to explain accounting issues clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders. - CPA, CMA, or MBA preferred. - Ability to travel approximately 10% for physical inventory counts and business. Requirements - The range for this position is $80,000.00 to $115,000.00. Placement within this range may vary, depending on the applicant’s experience and geographic location. Benefits - Generous benefits including health care, dental coverage, vision plans, 401K benefits, and commissions/incentive compensation depending on the role.

Role Description The Partner Care Specialist- LATAM & Canada serves as the regional subject matter expert supporting partners and customers across Latin America and Canada. Responsible for international order execution, trade compliance, logistics coordination, regional customer support, process improvement, and cross-functional operational support. Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions) - Manage LATAM and Canada partner relationships, customer support activities, order execution, compliance requirements, and regional service delivery. - Execute and monitor international order management, export documentation, customs requirements, and trade compliance processes. - Develop and maintain SOPs, support process improvements, and provide operational reporting through Power BI. - Collaborate with Sales, Logistics, Freight Forwarders, and internal stakeholders to resolve operational issues. - Identify compliance risks, escalate policy exceptions, and support regional business initiatives. Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Business, International Business, Supply Chain, or related field; or equivalent experience. - 3+ years customer service, order management, export operations, or related experience. - Advanced Oracle ERP and Salesforce/CPQ proficiency. - Power BI and operational reporting experience. - International logistics, export controls, and trade compliance knowledge. - LATAM and Canada customs/documentation experience. - Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills. - Process improvement and cross-functional collaboration experience. Preferred Skills and Experience - Degree in International Business, Supply Chain, Logistics, or Global Trade preferred. - LATAM/Canada support experience preferred. - Bilingual in Spanish preferred. - Export compliance experience preferred. Physical Requirements - Light work. Travel Requirements - 1-20%. Benefits - Generous health care, dental coverage, vision plans, and 401K benefits. - Commissions/incentive compensation depending on role. Accommodation for Applicants with Disabilities As an equal opportunity employer, Acuity Inc. is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in its application process for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you have difficulty using our online system due to a disability and need accommodation, you may contact us at (770) 922-9000, select option 4. Please clearly indicate what type of accommodation you are requesting and for what requisition.

Role Description Acuity, Inc. seeks a Production Operations / O&M Engineer to support the operation, sustainment, monitoring, and production readiness of a large federal Enterprise API Gateway environment. This role supports day-to-day production operations, incident response, service restoration, operational validation, reporting, and continuity activities across the current IBM webMethods baseline, hybrid on-prem/cloud environments, approved target-platform environments, and dual-run operations. The Production Operations / O&M Engineer helps maintain reliable gateway performance, availability, traceability, and operational control across the current IBM webMethods baseline, target-platform environments, and approved dual-run operations. This role works within approved operations, security, change, monitoring, backup/restore, disaster recovery, and release processes to support stable and documented production outcomes. Responsibilities - Monitor enterprise API gateway environments, including the current IBM webMethods baseline, hybrid on-prem/cloud components, OpenShift/containerized gateway components, and approved target-platform or dual-run environments, and support 24x7 production operations, alert response, and service continuity. - Triage incidents and service requests, assess operational impact, assign severity, and coordinate timely response through approved ticketing processes. - Support restoration of gateway services by troubleshooting availability, routing, connectivity, latency, error-rate, authentication, authorization, telemetry, and configuration issues. - Document incidents, service requests, corrective actions, resolution status, and operational evidence in ServiceNow. - Support root cause analysis for production incidents, including event timelines, contributing factors, recurrence risks, corrective actions, and follow-up validation. - Support patching, vulnerability remediation, certificate updates, configuration changes, and platform currency events affecting gateway operations. - Validate monitoring, alerting, dashboards, log flows, backup/restore procedures, disaster recovery procedures, and operational handoffs after applicable changes. - Perform post-change smoke testing, regression checks, operational readiness validation, and production-readiness evidence collection. - Prepare operational reports, availability inputs, incident trends, RCA materials, runbook updates, and knowledge-transfer artifacts. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. - 5+ years of experience supporting production operations, application operations, platform operations, API platforms, middleware, or enterprise integration environments. - Experience supporting 24x7 production operations, incident triage, service restoration, escalation coordination, and operational reporting. - Experience using ServiceNow for incident, service request, change, problem, and RCA documentation. - Experience troubleshooting production issues involving availability, latency, routing, connectivity, errors, authentication, authorization, monitoring, logging, or configuration. - Experience supporting monitoring, alerting, dashboards, log analysis, performance reporting, and operational trend analysis, including AppDynamics, ELK, OpenTelemetry, or comparable observability tools. - Experience supporting patching, vulnerability remediation, certificate updates, backup/restore validation, disaster recovery exercises, or platform currency activities. - Experience performing post-change validation, smoke testing, regression checks, readiness reviews, and evidence collection for production changes. - Experience supporting IBM webMethods API Gateway or comparable enterprise API gateway products such as Kong, Google Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, IBM API Connect, Red Hat 3scale, Axway Amplify, WSO2 API Manager, Tyk, or similar platforms. - Strong written communication skills for incident documentation, RCA materials, operational reports, runbooks, validation evidence, and knowledge transfer. Requirements - Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain U.S. federal suitability. Benefits - Grow Your Career, Your Way: Personalized development plans, mentorship, and financial support for training and certifications. - Be Part of Something Innovative: Work on cutting-edge solutions that support important government missions. - Thrive in a People-First Culture: Collaboration, respect, and support are core values. - Feel Valued and Rewarded: Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits with a focus on work-life balance. - Join an Award-Winning Team: Recognized as one of the best places to work. - Bring Your Whole Self to Work: Commitment to diversity and inclusion. - Make Your Impact: Be part of a team where your ideas are valued and your growth is supported.

Role Description Acuity, Inc. seeks a Senior Gateway / Platform Engineer to support the operation, modernization, and migration of a large federal Enterprise API Gateway environment. This role supports API gateway configuration, platform engineering, integration, validation, documentation, and production readiness across the current IBM webMethods baseline, hybrid on-prem/cloud environments, and future approved target gateway platforms. The Senior Gateway / Platform Engineer helps sustain reliable gateway operations while implementing approved modernization, migration, automation, observability, and platform-currency activities. This role works within approved architecture, security, infrastructure, CI/CD, and release processes to deliver controlled, validated, and documented API gateway outcomes. Responsibilities - Configure and support enterprise API gateway environments across development, test, pre-production, production, hybrid on-prem/cloud, and approved dual-run environments. - Install, configure, integrate, and validate API gateway platform components for approved modernization, technical refresh, platform currency, and target-platform readiness activities. - Configure gateway routes, services, policies, certificates, consumers, plugins, authentication, authorization, logging, telemetry, and environment promotion patterns. - Support API onboarding, updates, lifecycle changes, versioning, deprecation, retirement, and migration-readiness activities across current centralized onboarding and future automated onboarding models. - Develop technical inputs for API inventories, migration sequencing, cutover readiness, rollback planning, and dual-run operations. - Support migration of APIs from IBM webMethods to a target API gateway platform through approved migration waves. - Troubleshoot gateway issues involving routing, connectivity, latency, availability, policy enforcement, identity integration, logging, telemetry, and platform configuration. - Coordinate gateway integration touchpoints with approved identity, network, monitoring, logging, incident-management, change-management, CI/CD, OpenShift/container platform, and observability processes. - Perform product-specific validation, including connectivity, regression, security, performance, observability, and operational readiness checks. - Prepare configuration baselines, as-built documentation, runbooks, release evidence, rollback materials, and knowledge-transfer artifacts. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. - 7+ years of experience supporting enterprise API gateway, integration, middleware, or application platform environments. - Hands-on experience with one or more enterprise API gateway products such as IBM webMethods API Gateway, Google Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, IBM API Connect, Red Hat 3scale, Axway Amplify, WSO2 API Manager, Tyk, or comparable platforms. - Experience configuring gateway routes, services, policies, certificates, consumers, plugins, authentication, authorization, logging, telemetry, and promotion patterns. - Experience supporting API onboarding, publication, lifecycle management, versioning, deprecation, retirement, and migration readiness. - Experience supporting gateway modernization, platform currency, technical refresh, production readiness, release evidence, rollback planning, and hybrid or containerized gateway environments. - Experience troubleshooting API gateway issues across development, test, pre-production, production, or dual-run environments. - Familiarity with CI/CD-enabled deployment processes, configuration-as-code concepts, change control, release coordination, and operational validation, including environments with partial manual deployment steps. - Ability to coordinate effectively across architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, CI/CD, database, network, identity, operations, and release teams. - Strong written communication skills for technical documentation, validation evidence, runbooks, release materials, and knowledge transfer. Clearance Requirement - Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain U.S. federal suitability. Benefits - Grow Your Career, Your Way: Personalized development plans, mentorship, and up to $3,000 annually for training and certifications. - Be Part of Something Innovative: Work on cutting-edge solutions that support important government missions. - Thrive in a People-First Culture: Collaboration, respect, and support are core values. - Feel Valued and Rewarded: Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a strong focus on work-life balance. - Join an Award-Winning Team: Recognized among the best workplaces. - Bring Your Whole Self to Work: Commitment to a diverse, inclusive environment. - Make Your Impact: Be part of a team where your ideas are valued and your growth is supported.

Role Description Acuity, Inc. seeks an SME Application / API Lifecycle Automation Developer to support the design, development, validation, and sustainment of secure API lifecycle automation for a large federal Enterprise API Gateway environment. This role develops reusable automation capabilities that support API onboarding, configuration, governance, deployment, developer enablement, and migration readiness across the current IBM webMethods baseline, centralized onboarding model, and future approved target gateway platforms. The SME Application / API Lifecycle Automation Developer helps transition centralized, manually coordinated onboarding into controlled, automated, and self-service API lifecycle workflows. This role works within approved CI/CD, security, identity, gateway, and release processes to deliver tested, documented, and reusable automation capabilities. Responsibilities - Design, develop, validate, and maintain API lifecycle automation workflows for centralized onboarding, self-service onboarding, updates, migration readiness, and retirement. - Develop reusable automation components for API registration, access request routing, gateway configuration, policy enforcement, deployment support, and lifecycle documentation. - Build and maintain configuration-as-code artifacts, templates, scripts, and reusable patterns for API gateway configuration and promotion. - Support developer portal integrations, API catalog capabilities, API documentation workflows, and self-service onboarding processes. - Integrate API automation workflows with approved CI/CD pipelines, including environments with existing manual deployment steps, validation gates, identity controls, logging, monitoring, and change processes. - Implement automated checks for API specifications, naming conventions, versioning, schema quality, governance rules, telemetry requirements, and migration readiness. - Support Zero Trust-aligned automation for authentication, authorization, token validation, RBAC, encryption, segmentation, and least-privilege access patterns. - Troubleshoot automation, pipeline integration, gateway configuration, developer portal, validation, and deployment issues across non-production and production environments. - Produce validation evidence, runbooks, workflow documentation, configuration documentation, API standards documentation, release materials, and knowledge-transfer artifacts. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. - 7+ years of experience developing application automation, API lifecycle, integration, platform, or enterprise workflow solutions. - Experience designing and developing secure automation workflows for API onboarding, configuration, deployment, governance, documentation, or lifecycle management. - Experience with one or more enterprise API gateway products such as IBM webMethods API Gateway, Google Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, IBM API Connect, Red Hat 3scale, Axway Amplify, WSO2 API Manager, Tyk, or comparable platforms. - Experience developing scripts, templates, configuration-as-code artifacts, pipeline-integrated workflows, or reusable deployment patterns. - Experience integrating automation with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, access controls, validation gates, logging, monitoring, controlled release processes, and partially manual deployment environments. - Experience with API specifications, REST services, OpenAPI/Swagger, JSON, YAML, authentication patterns, authorization controls, and API documentation practices. - Experience validating automation workflows through functional, regression, security, telemetry, usability, and operational readiness checks. - Experience troubleshooting automation, gateway configuration, developer portal, pipeline integration, or API deployment issues across legacy and target gateway environments. - Strong written communication skills for technical documentation, validation evidence, runbooks, release materials, and knowledge transfer. Requirements - Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain U.S. federal suitability. Benefits - Personalized development plans, mentorship, and up to $3,000 annually for training and certifications. - Up to $3,000 for degree-seeking programs. - Work on cutting-edge solutions that support important government missions. - Collaboration, respect, and support in a people-first culture. - Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits. - Strong focus on work-life balance. - Join an award-winning team recognized as one of the best places to work. - Commitment to building a diverse, inclusive environment. Company Description Acuity, Inc. is a management and technology consulting firm supporting critical federal missions, where you’ll have the opportunity to solve meaningful challenges, work alongside high-performing teams, and make a real impact from day one.

Role Description Acuity, Inc. seeks a Kong / API Gateway Surge Engineer to support authorized, time-bounded implementation, migration, automation, validation, integration, troubleshooting, and stabilization activities for a large federal Enterprise API Gateway environment. This role provides product-specific surge support for Kong and comparable enterprise API gateway capabilities when additional capacity is needed to support approved target-platform objectives. The Kong / API Gateway Surge Engineer helps accelerate approved gateway implementation, migration waves, developer portal configuration, CI/CD/GitOps touchpoints, observability integration, defect resolution, and knowledge transfer. This role works within approved architecture, security, infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and release processes to deliver documented, validated, and accepted surge outcomes. Responsibilities - Implement, configure, integrate, validate, troubleshoot, and document Kong or comparable enterprise API gateway capabilities for approved surge activities. - Configure gateway services, routes, consumers, plugins, policies, certificates, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, logging, telemetry, and environment promotion patterns. - Support developer portal configuration, API catalog capabilities, API documentation workflows, access request patterns, and self-service onboarding enablement. - Support accelerated API migration wave preparation, gateway configuration, validation evidence, defect resolution, rollback readiness, and dual-run troubleshooting. - Develop and validate EAG-side CI/CD, GitOps, configuration-as-code, and automation touchpoints within approved pipeline and release processes. - Integrate gateway capabilities with approved identity, network, monitoring, logging, incident-management, change-management, and observability processes. - Support AppDynamics, ELK, OpenTelemetry planning, dashboard inputs, log flow validation, telemetry checks, and operational visibility for surge activities. - Troubleshoot surge-related issues involving gateway configuration, plugins, policies, routing, certificates, connectivity, identity integration, telemetry, and migration defects. - Provide technical office hours, knowledge transfer, configuration documentation, surge status inputs, validation evidence, and completion artifacts. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. - 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise API gateway implementation, configuration, automation, migration, integration, or production-readiness activities. - Hands-on experience with Kong, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Kong Konnect, or comparable enterprise API gateway products. - Experience configuring gateway services, routes, consumers, plugins, policies, certificates, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, logging, telemetry, and environment promotion patterns. - Experience supporting developer portal configuration, API catalog capabilities, API documentation, access request workflows, or self-service onboarding enablement. - Experience supporting API migration waves, dual-run operations, validation evidence, defect resolution, rollback readiness, and cutover support. - Experience developing or integrating CI/CD, GitOps, configuration-as-code, reusable automation, or gateway deployment-support artifacts. - Experience with observability integration, including AppDynamics, ELK, OpenTelemetry, dashboards, log flows, telemetry validation, or comparable monitoring tools. - Experience troubleshooting gateway implementation, migration, plugin, policy, routing, certificate, identity, connectivity, or telemetry issues. - Strong written communication skills for surge documentation, configuration evidence, runbooks, status inputs, validation materials, and knowledge transfer. Requirements - Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain U.S. federal suitability. Benefits - Personalized development plans, mentorship, and up to $3,000 annually for training and certifications. - Up to $3,000 for degree-seeking programs. - Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits. - Strong focus on work-life balance. - Recognition as one of the best places to work. - Commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Role Description QSC is seeking a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Entertainment & Hospitality to lead marketing strategy across QSC’s professional audio reinforcement applications, including commercial audio, hospitality, and entertainment. This role will support a broad portfolio of QSC technology solutions, spanning the QSC powered loudspeaker portfolio for live sound applications, and Q-SYS Full Stack AV Platform solutions for installed systems. The ideal candidate is a versatile marketing leader with deep experience in the AV industry and a proven track record supporting new product introductions. This includes: - Partnering closely with product development teams - Contributing market research and voice-of-the-customer insights - Translating product strategy into effective outbound marketing programs This role requires the ability to develop compelling messaging for a wide range of customers across the Entertainment & Hospitality segment, including: - Solo performers - DJs - Bands - Production professionals - Venue owners - Decision makers - Operators seeking installed commercial audio solutions built on the Q-SYS platform The ideal candidate will also bring strong instincts for modern audience engagement, including: - Social media strategy - Influencer marketing - Artist relations - Creator-led campaigns This position will report to the VP Marketing, QSC and is open to candidates located anywhere within the United States. Qualifications - Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Communications, Advertising or a related field required - Masters/MBA preferred - 8-10 years of experience in product marketing at a professional AV solutions manufacturer - Strong, balanced expertise in both professional/portable loudspeakers and integrated audio, video and control systems - Proven track record in new product introduction strategy - Strong networking capabilities to build relationships across various organizational levels and with customers - Strong, tactical knowledge of modern influencer strategy and social media platforms - Strong balance between analytical aptitude and visionary envelope-pusher who thrives in a data-driven environment - Strong analytic skills with the ability to interpret data and derive actionable insights - Exceptional communication and influence skills - On-camera executive marketing presence for live/pre-recorded launch events - Excellent project management and organization skills - Ability to travel 25% Requirements - Drive segment-specific marketing strategies for live performance, hospitality, entertainment venues, bars/restaurants, houses of worship, theme parks, and other experience-driven environments - Lead strategic marketing across segments and research areas, focusing on deep market understanding, scientific rigor, and strategic insight - Gather and leverage deep market insights, including market drivers, size, unmet needs, and key players - Devise and execute outbound GTM strategy, crafting compelling value propositions and annual marketing execution plans for both NPI and sustaining campaigns - Lead marketing activities, content creation, event marketing, brand awareness, and sales enablement - Work with Training Department to build out product and segment-level sales enablement and end-user training development for entertainment and hospitality solutions - Maintain companywide visibility to product development roadmap for this segment through various communication means Benefits - Health care - Dental coverage - Vision plans - 401K benefits - Commissions/incentive compensation depending on role Company Description Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light, and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives. We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe, and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates.

Role Description The Healthcare, Lab & Pharma Solution Manager is responsible for shaping the strategy, roadmap, and deployment of HVAC, Building Automation, and Critical Environment Control solutions for healthcare, laboratory, and pharmaceutical facilities. As the company's subject matter expert, you will combine deep knowledge of mechanical systems, airflow management, room pressurization, environmental control, and critical environments with strong business acumen to develop innovative, differentiated solutions that improve patient safety, regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, sustainability, and customer outcomes. You will work at the intersection of customer needs, market trends, product innovation, and commercial strategy to drive growth in some of the world's most demanding and highly regulated environments. Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Building Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Building Automation, or a related technical discipline. - MBA or business education is considered an asset. Requirements - Minimum 5 years of experience in HVAC systems, Building Automation, healthcare facilities, laboratories, pharmaceutical environments, or critical environment controls. - Experience with healthcare, laboratory, or pharmaceutical projects is highly desirable. - Experience launching hardware and software solutions is an asset. - Strong knowledge of HVAC mechanical systems, Building Automation Systems (BAS/BMS). - Knowledge of airflow tracking systems, Differential pressure control, Laboratory ventilation systems, Fume hood controls, Cleanroom environmental controls, Critical environment applications. - Knowledge of Healthcare HVAC systems. Benefits - Health care coverage. - Dental coverage. - Vision plans. - 401K benefits. - Commissions/incentive compensation depending on role. Company Description Distech Controls is a Canadian-based company located in Brossard, on the South Shore of Montreal (QC), with a European headquarter in Brignais (Lyon), France. We are proud to be part of the Acuity Inc. family since 2015. Our mission is to connect people with intelligent building solutions for better health, better space, and better efficiencies through our forward-thinking technologies and services. Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives. Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates.

Role Description The Professional Services Sourcing Manager for the Indirect Sourcing organization will be expected to collaborate with key business stakeholders from other business functions to develop strategies and deliver sustainable value to the organization. The successful candidate will build strong relationships with their internal business units and drive enterprise-wide sourcing, category management, contract negotiation and delivery of technology to the related spend categories. This position will represent Sourcing as the subject matter expert and provide strategic guidance within the Professional Services categories; manage and execute appropriate sourcing processes and procedures. This role provides leadership and direction in support of the company’s Professional Services, including but not limited to: - Consulting services - Compensation and benefits - Talent acquisition - Legal - Finance - HR Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Sourcing, or related business field. - APICS/NAPM, CPIM or CPM certification or equivalent preferred. - Demonstrated results in Indirect Sourcing spaces, specifically Professional Services, compensation & benefits, and HR. - Experience with procurement technology platforms (source-to-pay) and e-procurement software. - Deep understanding of levers to identify and unlock opportunities. - Minimum of 5 years’ experience as Sourcing Manager in Indirect Sourcing. - Considered as subject matter expert in Professional Services and HR categories. - Experienced with multi-step strategic sourcing processes in a range of categories is a plus. - Skilled in negotiations, collaboration, communication, strategy, change management. - Experience with complex leveraged agreements, multi-year contracts, and SOWs. - Highly results-oriented and focused on business priorities with a successful record of accomplishments. - Excellent supplier relationship management skills. - Ability to effectively manage multiple assignments concurrently, including ability to assess and manage priorities. - Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills. - Must be able to build rapport with Operations and cross-functional colleagues and be able to foster collaborative relationships. - Capable of operating with ambiguity, ability to influence internal stakeholders, and vendor relationships. - Strong knowledge of the business and long-term strategic goals. - Strong customer service skills are required. Requirements - Experience in leading contractual negotiations in Professional Services, including consulting services, compensation and benefits, talent acquisition, legal, finance, HR. - Lead development and implementation and governance of Global Sourcing strategies for major categories aimed at successful and controlled execution, net cost savings, free cash flow, and risk mitigation. - Build common purpose with key business functional leaders to create a collaborative approach to supplier relationship management. - Deep understanding of supply, demand and strategic levers that would support the Professional Services roadmap. - Establish global spend visibility to clearly define category spend baselines, current suppliers, and track go-forward impact. - Sourcing strategies should include volume aggregation, competitive bidding, low-cost country sourcing, should-cost models, strategic supplier designations at a sub-category level, SLA, KPIs, financial tracking, and identification of new suppliers. - Achieve early wins to build organizational confidence and momentum. - Engage with the business functions to identify sourcing opportunities, drive RFP process and competitive bidding. - Ensure that essential supplier agreements are in place. - Develop a clear channel of calendar, cadence, content for communication, alignment, and coordination between functional counterparts in the business units across all levels of the enterprise. Benefits - Travel Requirements: 0-25%

Role Description The Payroll Process Operations Manager is responsible for leading payroll process operations and driving discipline around payroll policies, controls, and time management standards. This role serves as a key operational leader, leveraging data analytics to improve payroll performance, reduce risk, and enable informed decision-making. The role will also support mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activities, including payroll integration, process harmonization, and compliance alignment across newly acquired entities. The position also serves as a key liaison across HR Technology, Finance, and HR Operations to lead cross-process and system changes, govern pay-impacting rules, and provide operational analytics that strengthen payroll accuracy and service performance. The role can be based anywhere in the U.S.A. Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions) - Payroll Process Operations: - Lead payroll process operations by ensuring disciplined execution of payroll calendars, cutoffs, and workflow standards. - Serve as the primary escalation point for payroll issues and operational risks, driving timely resolution and on-time, accurate pay delivery. - Act as the HR Operations expert on wage and hour compliance, payroll policies, and timekeeping processes. - Oversee workforce management systems to ensure adherence to federal, state, and local labor laws. - Establish and maintain strong internal controls that safeguard payroll accuracy, regulatory compliance, and financial integrity. - Drive continuous process improvement through standardization, automation, and audit-ready documentation. - Support payroll transformation, M&A integration activities, and system and policy enhancements that improve scalability and operational effectiveness. - Project Management & System / Implementation Leadership: - Lead payroll workstreams for system implementations, upgrades, and configuration changes. - Partner with HR Technology, Finance, and IT to assess cross-process impacts, coordinate testing and readiness activities, and manage timelines, risks, and stakeholder communication. - Service Delivery, Ticket Governance & Case Management: - Oversee payroll inquiry queues, ticket volumes, and escalation pathways even when direct ticket closure is delegated. - Establish SLAs, monitor resolution performance, and drive case-deflection strategies through knowledge resources and process clarity. - Compliance, Controls & Reconciliation: - Ensure adherence to payroll tax, statutory, and wage-hour regulations through reconciliations, audits, and validation checks. - Maintain documented procedures, segregation of duties, and audit readiness while supporting responses to tax notices or compliance inquiries. - Foundational Pay-Impacting Process Governance: - Govern operational rules and standards for upstream workforce processes that directly affect pay outcomes. - Monitor exception trends and partner with HR/HRIS to reduce downstream payroll errors. - Analytics, Dashboards & Reporting: - Develop and maintain dashboards and scorecards related to payroll accuracy, ticket volumes, overpayments, and time-and-pay exceptions. - Analyze trends and provide actionable insights to leadership and cross-functional partners. Qualifications - Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent - 9+ years relevant experience - Deep knowledge of payroll processing (cycles, cutoffs, funding, off-cycles, final pay) - Strong payroll calendar and deadline management discipline - Experience leading payroll projects, system upgrades, and implementations - Working knowledge of payroll systems, HRIS, and Time & Attendance platforms/integrations - Ownership of workforce time rules and standards (pay codes, overtime rules, shift premiums, accrual logic, union/CBA rules where applicable) - Ability to drive time & attendance change management (policy updates, system rule changes, stakeholder communication, training) - Troubleshooting expertise for time capture issues (missed punches, scheduling conflicts, accrual errors, integration defects) - Vendor and SLA management experience - Ticket queue and case management oversight skills - Payroll tax, statutory, and wage-hour compliance knowledge - Reconciliation, audit, and internal controls experience - Understanding of upstream pay-impacting processes (time capture, comp changes, terminations, pay codes) - Ability to build and interpret payroll dashboards and metrics - Strong cross-functional collaboration (Finance, HRIS, IT, Benefits, Vendors) - Clear executive communication and escalation management - Risk identification and structured problem-solving ability - Occasional travel for business Preferred Experience - CPP or equivalent certification - Experience in outsourced model - Experience with SF/ECP / Workforce Benefits - Health care - Dental coverage - Vision plans - 401K benefits - Commissions/incentive compensation depending on the role