Director of Supplier Diversity

Oak View Group

Oak View Group (OVG) is the world’s leading arena development, management, and hospitality company founded in 2015 by Tim Leiweke and Irving Azoff to disrupt business as usual. As the largest developer of sports and entertainment facilities in the world, OVG prioritizes the way we do business focusing on making long-term investments in our people and our planet. We focus on building a diverse workforce and cultivating an inclusive workplace. Each day our team members around the world and throughout our local communities work together to provide the greatest experience to our fans and partners.

 

We celebrate and support a strong, transparent, authentic and inclusive culture focused around four core values:  

• We treat each other fairly and with respect.
• We act with integrity.
• We have an entrepreneurial spirit.
• We give back to our global community.

 

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Overview

The Director of Supplier Diversity is a new position within OVG’s Corporate team charged with recruiting, managing, and supporting diverse suppliers, and driving member contract uptake. Growing our Supplier Diversity programs will significantly increase opportunities for diverse suppliers, employees, and community partners. The ideal candidate will build strong relationships in the business community and be both a strategist and implementer in connecting diverse suppliers to procurement opportunities across OVG. This work includes managing strategic contracts and relationships and working with the Vice President of DE&I and the Vice President of Procurement to:

 

This role will pay a salary of $100,000 to $150,000.

 

For FT roles: Benefits: Health, Dental and Vision insurance, 401(k) savings plan, 401(k) matching, and paid time off (vacation days, sick days, and 11 holidays).

Responsibilities

 

• In collaboration with VP of DE&I and VP of Procurement oversee the assessment, development, and implementation of formal Supplier Diversity Program at OVG.
• Manages supplier portal/database and conducts frequent audits to maintain data accuracy in reporting (e.g. of recognized categories of diverse suppliers). 
• Tracks, analyzes, and reports diversity spend trends to senior leadership, monitoring compliance of metrics reported against Company supplier diversity goals.
• Develop an enterprise-wide supplier diversity policy to track and manage direct spend and indirect spend with diverse suppliers.
• Ensure new processes are developed and implemented to educate staff on supplier diversity issues.
• Strong regional engagement and supplier diversity program communication. Assists in developing and implementing strategies to increase supplier diversity performance for the organization through working directly with the various leaders (internal and external business units.)
• Create vendor by commodity listing from database & RFP tracking spreadsheets.
• Develop surveys for the Supplier Diversity program interacting with HR and various banking related groups.
• Assist with event planning and maintain vendor contact information from networking events.
• Follow up with Sourcing & Procurement managers and assist with finding suppliers to include in upcoming RFPs and track which vendors are included and which vendors are awarded business.
• Develop mentoring program, providing additional guidance to vendors to help them with the bidding process.
• Annually, create and submit supplier diversity plans, and summary reporting.
• Participates in outreach activities including tradeshows, matchmaking and other networking supplier diversity events to create awareness of OVG’s supplier diversity program and opportunities.
• Collaborates with sales, sourcing, marketing, and communications organizations to understand corporate commitments, customer needs, and requirements.
• Quarterly, analyze small business and MBE data to: (1) review trending to goals, (2) mitigate risk to achieving small business goals.
• Additional ad-hoc responsibilities will be needed as the program grows and matures, list above is not exhaustive.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration 
• Procurement knowledge highly preferred
• Minimum of more than 7-year supplier diversity experience, preferably for venue management industry
• Excellent oral, interpersonal and communication skills
• Advance knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
• Superb problem solving and analytic skills
• Demonstrate resourcefulness in setting priorities and guiding investment in people and systems.
• Anticipate opportunities/problems and im