Small Business Engagement Lead

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🕒 June 24

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Civic Marketplace

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏛️ Government

Consulting • Logistics • Government

Civic Marketplace is on a mission to unlock local agency procurement through innovation, by building a marketplace that saves time and taxpayer dollars. Their platform provides government procurement offices with the ability to make purchases with ease, simplicity, and full legal compliance. By using cutting-edge technology, Civic Marketplace enhances public service delivery with transparency and efficiency, ensuring access to a network of reliable, pre-approved vendors. They focus on supporting diverse suppliers to foster local economic development, addressing the challenges faced by procurement officers in outdated systems and inefficient processes.

📋 Description

• Lead Outreach & Education: Build relationships with small, minority-owned, and HUB-certified businesses. Host onboarding sessions, educational workshops, and community briefings that demystify government contracting. • Supplier Success & Retention: Guide vendors through profile completion, bid readiness, and project matching. Champion their voice inside Civic Marketplace to shape tools and policies that meet their needs. • Partnership Development: Collaborate with chambers of commerce, economic development agencies, co-ops, and advocacy groups to expand our trusted network of suppliers. • Pipeline Growth: Drive supplier acquisition in high-priority states and RFP verticals, in line with our strategic goals and buyer-side demand. • Operational Leadership: Help design and optimize internal processes, feedback loops, and CRM workflows to scale supplier-side operations efficiently.

🎯 Requirements

• A heart for public service and small business inclusion. You believe in helping communities thrive through economic empowerment. • Experience working with HUBs, MWBEs, DBEs, or similar certification programs—ideally in a public or nonprofit setting. • Strong understanding of how public procurement works and what it takes for a small business to succeed in it. • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills. Comfortable leading webinars and engaging with everyone from micro-enterprise founders to public procurement officers. • Familiarty with the B2G Platform, Texas DIR, CRMs (like HubSpot), Airtable, or similar outreach and tracking tools. • Grit, ownership, and integrity. You’re the kind of person who doesn’t need hand-holding and thrives in a mission-focused startup. • Bonus If You Have • Fluency in Spanish or another language commonly spoken in underserved small business communities • Prior experience in vendor engagement, certification support, or small business technical assistance • Worked with or inside a coop purchasing network

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Paid time off