Small Business Engagement Lead

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🤠 Texas – Remote

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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diverse suppliers to foster local economic development, addressing the challenges faced by procurement officers in outdated systems and inefficient processes.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

• Build relationships with small, minority-owned, and HUB-certified businesses • Host onboarding sessions, educational workshops, and community briefings about government contracting • Guide vendors through profile completion, bid readiness, and project matching • Represent supplier feedback internally to shape tools and policies • Collaborate with chambers of commerce, economic development agencies, cooperative purchasing networks, and advocacy groups • Drive supplier acquisition in high-priority states and RFP verticals • Design and optimize internal processes, feedback loops, and CRM workflows • Help scale supplier-side operations efficiently

🎯 Requirements

• Experience working with HUBs, MWBEs, DBEs, or similar certification programs, ideally in a public or nonprofit setting • Strong understanding of public procurement and small-business success in government contracting • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills • Comfortable leading webinars and engaging with micro-enterprise founders and public procurement officers • Familiarity with the B2G Platform, Texas DIR, CRMs such as HubSpot, Airtable, or similar outreach and tracking tools • Grit, ownership, and integrity • Fluency in Spanish or another language commonly spoken in underserved small-business communities is a bonus • Prior experience in vendor engagement, certification support, or small-business technical assistance is a bonus • Experience with a cooperative purchasing network is a bonus • Legally authorized to work in the United States