Position: Senior Manager, Supplier Diversity
Location: Massachusetts
Type: Hybrid
Summary:
Our client is seeking a Senior Manager, Supplier Diversity professional to join their Supply Chain organization. The organization strategically sources quality materials and services at the lowest total cost while both enabling effective and efficient purchasing solutions and enhancing supplier partnerships. This role focuses on developing and implementing their supplier diversity initiative. Specifically, you will establish and maintain Supplier Diversity requirements and targets. As a Senior Manager you will partner cross-functionally to identify areas of improvement and create optimal solutions to enhance our utilization, collection, and reporting of Tier I and II diverse suppliers.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement initiatives that broaden the divisions use of a diverse supplier base, with a focus on solutions that enable consistent and reliable measurements of diverse sourcing and procurement activities.
- Provide subject matter expertise and guidance to cross-functional partners for program administration, including thoughtful collaboration with those partners to ensure systematic optimization to support the on boarding and reporting processes.
- Collaborate directly with the Corporate Diversity, Operations, Site Development, Legal, and other teams to develop best practices for vendor relations.
- Establish a systematic approach to maintain scorecard metrics which measure adherence to various initiatives including customer-based Tier II diverse spend reporting and requirements.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required.
- Proven ability to partner and influence senior leaders and strategic vendors.
- Strong organizational and planning skills and a demonstrated ability to accomplish multiple tasks within the agreed upon timeframes through effective prioritization of duties and functions in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience in supplier diversity required
- Minimum 5 years of program or supply chain management experience required