Special Projects Manager

MV Transportation • Dallas, TX

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About The Position

The Special Projects Manager works with MV Transportation’s Business Development team on Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) administration and is a member of the Source to Settle (S2S) team. The role serves as a liaison among S2S, maintenance, operations, business development, and other key stakeholder organizations.

The position also performs category-management work, including leading cross-functional negotiating teams, developing commodity strategies, and building strategic supplier relationships. It supports regulatory alignment and promotes integrity, transparency, and a strong customer-service mindset. Success is assessed by meeting internal and external deadlines, managing assigned work volume, and executing deliverables effectively.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in public administration, supply chain, business administration, law, or a related field preferred.
• Strong communication skills, including advanced writing and editing, reading comprehension, public speaking, and explaining complex information.
• Ability to review, interpret, and explain legal contract requirements.
• Ability to succeed in an extremely fast-paced environment.
• Expertise using Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, and Microsoft Teams; ability to multitask across computer operations.
• Excellent proofreading and cross-referencing skills.
• Ability to work outside standard business hours when occasions arise.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple new-business projects simultaneously.
• Ability to develop outreach and work with stakeholders.
• Accountability.
• Strong interpersonal skills, professionalism, and ability to build effective working relationships with key business partners.
• Resourcefulness, willingness to ask questions, solution-oriented approach, and high attention to detail.
• Critical thinking, creative problem-solving, ability to work independently, and time-management skills.

Nice To Haves

• Transportation-sector experience.

Responsibilities

• Identify DBE requirements in requests for proposals and develop solicitation materials, scopes of work, and quote forms for individual sales projects.
• Define functional and technical requirements.
• Conduct solicitation and outreach, and document DBE participation, Good Faith Efforts (GFE), and goal achievement.
• Develop and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders to support collaboration.
• Maintain alignment with regulatory requirements.
• Lead cross-functional negotiating teams targeting key spend categories.
• Develop and implement commodity strategies and establish and maintain strategic supplier relationships.
• Monitor market trends through relationships with suppliers and market experts, and identify and communicate new technologies and solutions to problems in assigned spend areas.
• Maintain working knowledge of internal policies and procedures, including Source to Settle and the code of ethics, and support organizational integrity, honesty, and transparency.
• Meet deadlines, manage assigned work volume, and contribute to effective execution of deliverables.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level