Senior Manager Supplier Diversity and Sustainability

Consumers Energy is Michigan’s largest energy provider, providing natural gas and/or electricity to 6.8 million of the state’s 10 million residents in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties. Consumers Energy knows job number one is to keep the lights on for customers. We are committed to delivering reliable, clean, and affordable energy to our customers 24/7.

Location

This is a hybrid (virtual/onsite) position with required onsite days on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday assigned to the Livonia Service Center located in Livonia, MI. The selected candidate must be within a commutable distance or willing to relocate (relocation package is available for those that qualify).

General Summary of Responsibilities

The Senior Manager Supplier Diversity and Sustainability is responsible for developing, implementing a strategy that ensures the organization's category strategies and practices are diverse, equitable and inclusive. This role will focus on identifying new and established diverse suppliers who have demonstrated the performance capability of the category can meet the needs of the category. This role will focus on establishing, fostering and managing strong supplier relationships with minority-owned, women-owned, veteran-owned, LGBTQ +-owned and small businesses while measuring performance to key performance indicators for respective categories. They will work in partnership with Supply Chain Category Management & Supplier Quality Team, the Strategy & Sustainability and External Affairs teams and other stakeholders to develop and execute diverse supplier strategies and sourcing activities. Responsible for Supply Chain's Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) program development and oversight and will be responsible for Consumers Energy's diversity reporting for the federal contracting program where applicable.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Education and Experience

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Why should you join our team?

At Consumers Energy, we offer more than just a place to work. We foster a culture that supports career development, growth, and stability, and we take pride in offering our co-workers excellent benefits and compensation packages. We are deliberately creating an inclusive culture that makes our diverse team of co-workers feel valued, supported, and empowered every day. We're a company made up of thousands of people, all with different stories to share and work to do, but we stand united in our company purpose: world class performance delivering hometown service.

What we offer:

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:

We, at CMS Energy, value Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. It is part of our DNA. We treat our employees with respect, we treat each other fairly and we value the opinions of others. We are passionate about building and nurturing an environment where everyone feels included. We don’t discriminate. We seek to learn about each other and better understand our unique differences. Our uniqueness makes us authentic. We create safe spaces where everyone can be who they truly are. We invite difficult conversations and uncomfortable topics. We value diverse perspectives; this is what makes us great together. We harbor an inclusive environment where employees feel empowered to share their backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. Our Employee Resource Groups, Women in Energy (WE), Minority Advisory Panel (MAP), Pride Alliance of Consumers Energy (PACE), GENERGY, capABLE, Interfaith and Veterans Advisory Panel (VAP) are key enablers to living the values of our company culture: Caring, Empowered, Deliberate, Agility, and Ownership.

All qualified applicants will not be discriminated against and will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected veteran status, disability, race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.

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