Global Supplier Services – Supplier Diversity Manager
Job Category: Corporate Staff
Responsibilities:
- Promote and support supplier diversity program and goals.
- Evaluate diverse suppliers' procurement opportunities.
- Identify qualified diverse suppliers through commodity and value analysis.
- Support Sourcing leads in their efforts to develop category strategies and plans aligned to business objectives.
- Interface regularly with sourcing executives and their teams to understand GSS’s current vendor engagements and pipeline opportunities for diverse businesses and to apprise them of qualified diverse businesses.
- Partner with Sourcing to identify and support supplier diversity requirements for RFP’s
- Help drive implementation Global Supplier Diversity initiatives with Sourcing, LOB partners and, external partners
- Identifying and prequalifying diverse suppliers for upcoming bid and matchmaking opportunities
- Support and grow the Tier 2 reporting process
- Design and implement processes to ensure sourcing professionals have diverse suppliers identified for competitive bids
- Support responses to RFPs firm-wide, external surveys and competitive applications
- Support ad hoc Global Supplier Diversity project request
- Support responding to emails in the Global Supplier Diversity shared mailboxes
- Support Global Supplier Diversity processes and procedures documentation
- Support Global Supplier Diversity activities at events and conferences
- Maintain an understanding of supplier diversity market intelligence and internal metrics
- Develop processes and governance in partnership with sourcing and internal partners that ensure maximizing opportunities for diverse suppliers
Skills:
- Advanced Access and Excel skills
- Detail-oriented
- Strong, creative problem solving skills – experience dealing with complex challenges
- Ability to navigate politically sensitive situations achieving win-win outcomes
- Process-oriented – knowledge of process improvement methodologies such as Six Sigma
- Ability to multi-task
- Operates with a sense of urgency
- Team player and individual contributor; Must have a collaborative and participative management style.
- Professionalism, sensitivity, discretion and sound decision-making skills allied with the ability to interact at all levels including senior executive level are essential
- Project management experience, organized with the ability meets multiple deadlines
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Comfortable working with large sets of data and numbers
- Strong writing and presentation skills
- Relevant industry experience, ideally coupled with stakeholder management, commercial management, third party relationship engagement (client or supplier) experience preferred
Location: Bangalore East, KA, IN