Job Senior Diversity Procurement Manager (70309159), Brampton

Job Description

This role serves as Sodexo’s primary representative to diverse and small business communities in Canada. The individual will actively facilitate connections between potential suppliers and internal decision-makers, support compliance by ensuring vendors meet established reporting requirements, and promote Sodexo’s commitment to supplier diversity by representing the company at conferences, trade shows, and external engagements. This position leads the management of over 500 diverse and SME vendors and over $75 million in diverse vendor spend.

Your key responsibilities include diverse vendor reporting (a requirement in many client contracts), driving diverse supplier education within our Supply Management team and affiliation engagement with key diversity organizations. This position serves as the face of Sodexo with potential diverse and SME businesses to connect with the correct contact for opportunities, holds our contracted vendors accountable for reporting and represents Sodexo to external organization at conferences and events.

Develops and Maintains Diverse Supplier Pipeline

• Oversees the vendor portal to identify potential new diverse vendors for the US/CAN
• Connects potential diverse/small vendors with the correct internal contact
• Ensures diverse vendors are included in all category RFPs
• Manages the general supplier diversity mailbox to assure a positive experience with Sodexo
• Attends matchmaker events with external organizations to identify potential new partner
• Manages the required PAR engagement and reporting for indigenous spend to support Sodexo’s Gold status

Manages Diverse and SME Supplier Reporting

• Maintain and update technology to provide quarterly reporting of 2nd Tier vendors spend
• Educate vendors on establishing supplier diversity program (as needed)
• Maintain vendor database to track spend and compliance to program

• Ensures accountability for diverse spend goals and vendors reporting

Maintain Certification Repository for Diverse Vendors

• Ensure our 500+ diverse and small vendors certifications are updated and current in system from over 30 databases on a quarterly basis
• Tracking Small business spend for completion of Better Tomorrow reporting (audited annually)
• Responsible for providing reporting for over 50+ clients including training unit managers and creating ta newsletter with updated certifications

Key contact for Supply Managers and Ambassadors to support growth of diverse spend

• Support Supply team to meet supplier diversity goals
• Lead Diversity Organization Engagement
• Attend conferences, workshops and tradeshows serving as the subject matter expert which may include identifying and meeting with potential diverse vendors
• Present on regional and/or national panels as a subject matter expert in supplier diversity
• Represent Sodexo as a member of the procurement council or committee member for some organizations.