Rachel Kutz
Vice President, AT&T Consumer Supply Chain & Global Logistics, AT&T Global Connections & Supply Chain Beginning April 1, 2024, Rachel Kutz assumes leadership of AT&T’s Sales and Distribution teams in the Northwest Market which includes 11 mainland states, as well as Hawaii and Alaska. In this role, she will focus on energizing a team of over one thousand employees dedicated to delivering America’s best converged connectivity through best-in-class customer service and retail excellence. Before this role, Rachel led the consumer product supply chain operations for AT&T Mobility, Broadband, and Business where she led a diverse team of over a thousand employees dedicated to better serving customers through operations coupled with an unbridled passion to deliver world-class customer service with retail excellence. This included ownership of all AT&T’s sourcing, logistics, supplier quality control, planning, purchasing and fulfillment of consumer and business products and equipment, as well as Supplier Diversity & Sustainability initiatives. Rachel is an inclusive thought leader who develops inventive solutions requiring high emotional intelligence, deep expertise in analytics, and managerial courage to drive complex issue resolution in highly competitive environments. She has extensive supply chain leadership experience and has led multiple data analytics and automation initiatives including overall supply chain transformation strategy for purchasing operations, systems, and tools to improve efficiency of internal processes. In addition, Rachel is passionate about mentoring, diversity and inclusion, respect, equality, social responsibility and helping others exceed their goals. She takes pride in providing leadership for AT&T’s $13B Supplier Diversity and Supplier Sustainability transformation programs which has resulted in national program recognition. Personally, she has been recognized with a President’s Volunteer Service Award (PVSA) for the hundreds of hours she spends participating in diversity related events and with diverse organizations. She previously served on the Dallas – Fort Worth Minority Supplier Development Council (DFW MSDC) and currently serves on the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) national board. She began her career at AT&T supporting wireless network radio frequency (RF) performance and rapidly rose to leading market network teams. With her thoughts always on the customer experience, she enabled local sales teams to market products and reduce customer churn more effectively. Rachel has lived and worked in many markets and cities (Minneapolis, Oregon, Houston, Detroit, Chicago, Colorado, Georgia, and Dallas), and has invaluable local and regional perspective, as well as adaptive problem-solving experience. Although she lives in Texas, Rachel calls Colorado home. She graduated from the University of Colorado – Boulder with a degree in Astrophysics (obviously to create better ski jumps through math and science) but cooking and tennis are the only things she loves as much as work. |