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Director, Supplier Diversity

Employer
University of Virginia
Location
Charlottesville, VA

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Institutional & Business Affairs, Diversity & Inclusion
Employment Type
Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

Job Details

Job location: Charlottesville, VA


Employment Type: Full-time
Posted data: 2021-12-17
Req: R0028915

The Director, Supplier Diversity designs and implements enterprise strategies that will have lasting impact to the University of Virginia’s supplier diversity program. The incumbent will lead a dynamic team focused on achieving a best-in-class program, backed by a robust set of performance metrics that light the path toward strategic focus areas and high impact change. The Director, Supplier Diversity will ensure an optimized approach to local, small, woman-owned, and minority-owned businesses gaining increasing business in design and construction projects, and partner with the Director, Strategic Sourcing to maximize supplier diversity opportunities in Facilities, IT, Scientific Discovery, and Services. The incumbent will build relationships across a broad spectrum of stakeholders from university leaders to suppliers to various state officials, working with intent to deliver tangible results.

Reporting to the Director of Procurement and Supplier Diversity Services, the Director, Supplier Diversity will be charged with implementing a newly developed strategic plan. They will arrive at UVA soon after a thorough programmatic review has been completed and at a time when significant resources, including financial support, are being invested to help the Director, Supplier Diversity achieve the mission and vision of the program.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Planning and Leadership
  • Design and implement enterprise strategies that will have lasting impact to UVA’s supplier diversity program.
  • Partner with Strategic Sourcing Director to implement sourcing practices and policies that improve opportunities for local, small, woman-owned, and minority-owned businesses to compete.
  • Partner with Capital Construction & Renovations to maximize supplier diversity opportunities throughout the full construction project life cycle.
  • Identify and pursue opportunities to collaborate with the Health System.
  • Maintain a robust set of program metrics that monitor and measure the performance of the program.
  • Design tailored economic impact plans for each department and ensures that each unit has the best tools and resources for sourcing to local, small, woman-owned, and minority-owned businesses.
  • Cultivate a supplier inclusion mindset across the University.
  • Lead a team of individuals committed to supplier diversity and inclusion.

Supplier Development and Reporting
  • Create a front door to the University for local, small, woman-owned, and minority-owned businesses to pursue opportunities to provide goods and services.
  • Work with Director, Strategic Sourcing and the Capital Construction & Renovations team to publish contract and sourcing opportunities in an easy-to-understand, accessible format.
  • Implement strategy to track performance data on how many local, small, woman-owned, and minority-owned businesses respond to and are awarded contracting opportunities; year-over-year development of supplier relationships once they are awarded their first contract; market gap and lost opportunity; and, other critical performance measures.
  • Develop market penetration plans for local, small, woman-owned, and minority-owned businesses.
  • Analyze and articulate the big picture of what UVA buys and what local, small, woman-owned, and minority-owned business sell and where current and potential opportunities lie.
  • Host capability meetings and introduce new businesses to departments, Procurement, and Capital Construction & Renovations.
  • Oversee the delivery of state and federal compliance reporting and plan development.

Community Partnerships and Initiatives
  • Build rapport and trust with local community businesses.
  • Direct the development of a highly accessible community portal that publishes UVA’s historical spend, upcoming contracting opportunities, and how-to guides that make it simple to get started at UVA.
  • Oversee the design and matching service between contractors and sub-contractors.
  • Articulate the types of goods and services UVA buys on a regular basis and provides both data and insights to community members and entities interested in incubating new business growth in the local surrounding area.
  • Identify and pursue key initiatives that cultivate new business opportunities within the community.
  • Represent UVA at various community events.

State Relations
  • Engage with the Virginia Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity (SBSD) to learn about their focus, strategies, goals, and initiatives.
  • Follow state legislation activities to ensure UVA engages on critical issues.
  • Partner with state relations office to support understanding of key legislative issues and UVA’s position on those matters.
  • Partner at the state-level to influence ideas and strategies for improving accessibility and opportunities to state-certified and Virginia state small, woman-owned, and minority businesses, and all other classifications recognized by the state.
  • Partner with Virginia Association of State College & University Purchasing Professionals (VASCUPP) peers to understand current practices and align on strategies, metrics, and compliance reporting.
Candidate Profile

We seek a dynamic candidate with a demonstrated record of implementing complex initiatives with measurable outcomes and/or tangible results. Compelling candidates will have expertise in supplier diversity and will have experience building highly effective community partnerships, as well as relationships with other key stakeholders. They will also have experience leading teams and using data to drive decision making and/or to effect change. Candidates must demonstrate a clear commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Professional Experience
  • At least 7 years relevant experience in supplier diversity and contracts and sourcing
  • Expert-level knowledge of supplier diversity strategies, trends, and performance metrics
  • Proven track record of achieving supplier diversity goals in a variety of settings and circumstances
  • Proven experience analyzing data and drawing insights from data
  • Hands-on experience in the development of a sustainable data model that ensures quality and accessibility of critical performance metrics
  • Proven experience participating in Capital Construction & Renovations sourcing and contracting procedures and protocols
  • Knowledge in procurement practices and protocols in construction and non-constructions categories
  • Proven experience marketing opportunities to local, small, woman-owned, and minority-owned businesses, including development and oversight of marketing and training assets
  • Proven results in developing a successful supplier onboarding and training strategies
  • Experience developing supplier diversity strategies in Health System setting preferred
  • Expert verbal and written communicator, breaking down barriers and building bridges among a large and diverse group of stakeholders
  • Proven ability to perform public speaking and presentations
  • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams)

Education
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required

Interpersonal Characteristics

  • Ability to think strategically, combined with understanding of day-day operations and capacity to execute
  • Highest level of integrity
  • Ability to juggle multiple priorities; self-directed and motivated
  • Strong interpersonal skills with a high level of emotional intelligence
  • Thoughtful, transparent, and exceptionally collaborative
  • Committed to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment

To Apply or Nominate

UVA Executive Search Group, an internal search firm in the Office of the President, is assisting in the recruitment of the next Director, Supplier Diversity.

Confidential inquiries and nominations should be directed to AJ Davidson, Senior Search Consultant with ESG, at ajh2d@virginia.edu.

To apply, submit a letter of interest and resume. The search will be carried out with full confidentiality.

Additional information can be found at: http://executivesearch.virginia.edu/searches.


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The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physician’s Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspectives and lived experiences. We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.

Organization

In 1819, the University of Virginia established a new model for intellectual exchange and cross-disciplinary collaboration in higher education. Two hundred years later, as a major research institution, we continue to challenge conventions, lead with ingenuity and advance knowledge for the common good.

What began as an innovative idea has become one of the nation’s leading public research universities, with over 21,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. UVA also has over 3,000 full-time faculty offering more than 400 degrees.

Each of the University’s eleven schools has its own distinctive mission, working together to garner consistently high rankings—including #2 Best Value Public College (Princeton Review, 2016), #3 Public University in the Nation (U.S. News & World Report, 2016), and #3 Best Value Among Public Colleges (Kiplinger’s, 2016).  

As we invest in and strengthen our research capabilities, UVA seeks new faculty ready to uncover new insights, rewrite old rules and collaborate on intellectual discoveries.

RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS THAT CROSS DISCIPLINES

As an R1 institution, the University’s research centers, consortia and laboratories are on the leading edge of discovery and technology, offering collaborative spaces for students and faculty to solve global problems.

Our professors are recognized members of major national scholarly and professional organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Our faculty’s engagement in interdisciplinary research is being facilitated by new research institutes specializing in everything from big data to brain functioning, and by cluster hires across schools.

NATIONALLY RANKED HEALTH SYSTEM

UVA is also home to a nationally renowned academic medical center and the UVA Health System, which serves a three-part mission to treat patients, conduct translational research and train medical practitioners in a wide variety of disciplines.

Established as the nation’s 10th medical school in 1825, the institution has since grown to include a 612-bed hospital and a Level I trauma center, nationally recognized cancer and heart centers, a Children’s Hospital, and primary and specialty clinics throughout Central Virginia.

The UVA Medical Center is consistently ranked among the nation’s best hospitals by the U.S. News & World Report magazine and has been named among the top 25 percent in seven specialties.

INSPIRING STUDENTS, INSPIRED TEACHING

The vast majority of UVA students come from the top 10% of their high school class, as well as from all 50 states, over 142 countries and a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Despite their diversity, all UVA students share a love of learning and a drive to achieve.

One of the reasons students choose Virginia is our unique residential culture. At UVA, the community of students, faculty and staff personifies the Jeffersonian idea that living and learning are connected. The Academical Village was constructed to support a unique residential experience, with faculty living in the Pavilions, students occupying Lawn rooms and the world-famous Rotunda at its heart. The University’s residential culture continues to support this experience today—strengthened by students, faculty and staff rich in backgrounds, ideas and perspectives. Our unique culture is also paying dividends in innovation:  UVA’s faculty have generated more than 130 patents since 2010.

Perhaps most importantly, faculty come to UVA knowing that instruction is as important as research, and they pride themselves on their many teaching awards.  Our best professors look for ways to encourage, mentor and develop tomorrow’s leaders inside and outside the classroom.

LIFE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE

Living in Charlottesville you’ll find sophisticated restaurants, world-renowned wineries and breweries, cosmopolitan arts and music, friendly urban and suburban neighborhoods and a Piedmont landscape that has lured adventurous souls for centuries.  No wonder the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research named Charlottesville the “happiest city in America” in 2014.

In addition to UVA and its health system, several major employers have facilities in Charlottesville, including State Farm, Northrop Grumman, the U.S. Department of Defense, GE and others.  Charlottesville is also becoming a center for innovative start-up businesses.  The University also actively helps spouses and partners of faculty members build their networks and pursue employment opportunities with a wide variety of area employers. 

The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, qualified individuals with disabilities are protected from discrimination and may be entitled to reasonable accommodations to assist in their pursuit of employment at the University. This includes assistance in completing the online job application as well as reasonable accommodations during the interview process. Please contact the UHR Service Center: 434.982.0123 orAskHR@virginia.edu to request assistance.

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