JobsUSAManager, Supplier Inclusion
Company : Sysco
Location : Houston, TX, 77001
Posted Date : 15 September 2025
Job Details
Manager Of Supplier Inclusion
The Manager of Supplier Inclusion will be responsible for driving growth by meeting customer expectations for inclusive sourcing. This role is core to Sysco's broader Sustainability and Inclusion strategies and will lead efforts to identify and scale high-performing, diverse suppliers that help deliver on both commercial and sustainability goals. The successful candidate will work cross-functionally to design and implement the systems, partnerships, and internal capabilities needed to unlock value from supplier inclusion.
This role is not about representation for its own sakeit's about building a more resilient, innovative, and customer-aligned supply chain. Success in this role means delivering results: growing sales by helping customers meet their inclusion goals, expanding access to high-quality products, and embedding supplier inclusion into the way Sysco does business.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Partner directly with customers to understand how they define and prioritize supplier inclusion within their sustainability and procurement strategies.
- Translate customer expectations into actionable frameworks and tools that help Sysco identify, grow, and promote suppliers across a broad range of diversity dimensions (e.g., geography, ownership, background, business model).
- Collaborate with Technology and Data teams to ensure accurate supplier attribution and the integration of inclusion data into Sysco Shop, reporting systems, and sales tools.
- Work with Merchandising, Field Sales, and Category teams to help promising suppliers get discovered, onboarded, and integrated into category strategies.
- Build and scale internal processes to help suppliers succeedincluding access to onboarding resources, training, tools, and support to achieve third-party certifications or other verifications.
- Serve as Sysco's lead representative in external partnerships with certifying organizations and business groups that support inclusive supplier ecosystems.
- Develop and deliver training, content, and enablement tools that empower sales teams and merchants to incorporate supplier inclusion into customer conversations and sourcing decisions.
- Track program performance, supplier pipeline health, and customer impact, and report progress against internal goals and external ESG requirements.
Education Required:
Bachelor's degree.
Education Preferred:
Sustainability
Experience Required:
- 46 years of experience in supply chain, procurement, merchandising, customer success, sustainability, or supplier diversity/inclusion. Proven ability to build and scale programs that integrate across functions, systems, and stakeholders.
- Strong customer orientation and experience working directly with external partners or clients.
- Understanding supplier enablement, sourcing systems, and/or third-party certification landscapes is a plus.
- Clear communicator with the ability to influence at multiple levels and align stakeholders around shared goals.
- Strategic thinker with a bias for action and comfort in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.
Technical Skills and Abilities:
- Strategic Thinking and Execution
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Systems and Process Design
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Supplier and Customer Relationship Management
- Inclusive Innovation
- Commercial Acumen
- Change Management
Physical Demands:
Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
Overview:
Sysco is the global leader in foodservice distribution. With over 71,000 colleagues and a fleet of over 13,000 vehicles, Sysco operates approximately 333 distribution facilities worldwide and serves more than 700,000 customer locations.
We offer our colleagues the opportunity to grow personally and professionally, to contribute to the success of a dynamic organization, and to serve others in a manner that exceeds their expectations. We're looking for talented, hard-working individuals to join our team. Come grow with us and let us show you why Sysco is at the heart of food and service.
Affirmative Action Statement:
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law.
This opportunity is available through Sysco Corporation, its subsidiaries and affiliates.
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