Wayne Lambert Email & Phone Number

United States

New York, NY, US

Director - DE&I

Horsforth, Leeds, GB

Establish and grow the Supplier Diversity team, in accordance with internal and external policies and procedures; provide client support, direction, guidance, and overall leadership for projects and programs, nationally.

New York, New York, US

New York City Procurement Policy Board

Long Island City, NY, US

Brought onboard as part of DDC's leadership team to advance the agency's M/WBE initiatives in alignment with New York City's Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) Program. This includes leading the agency's effort to create contract opportunities and build capacity for M/WBEs, overseeing agency-specific M/WBE processes and coordinating with.

Joined the team to help address the disparity in contracts awarded to specific ethnic and gender groups and their overall representation in City contracting, having the responsibility for oversight, the development of policies and procedures, interagency coordination, and accountability for the City’s M/WBE Program.As part of my duties, I played a key role.

• Promoted to enhance the agency's program activities for small businesses, with a focus on minority and women-owned businesses, supporting efforts around equity and diversity, and developing policies and procedures for.
• Continued administering the agency’s minority and women-owned business (M/WBE) program activities; communicate the Mayor’s visions for OneNYC to develop, execute, and manage an agency-wide program and increase M/WBE.
• Monitor agency performance and prepare reports for executive level review; guide activities to improve performance
• Analyze the effectiveness of agency policies on performance and make recommendations to executive staff
• Participate in the agency's internal reform process, 'Race to Justice', to advance racial equity and social justice across all programs, policies, practices, and operations.
• Manage key components of the contracting process; ensure that contractors are in compliance with related requirements; monitor vendor submissions for completeness and approve the use of vendors on various types of.

Selected to develop, manage, and oversee the agency's compliance activities and processes- this includes developing and administering the agency's minority and women-owned business enterprise (M/WBE) program initiatives to identify contract opportunities and increase utilization; developing the agency's annual procurement plan, supervising the Vendor.

New York, NY, US

Selected to oversee a unit that provides various support services to City agencies and prime contractors with the goal of connecting over 4000 small businesses with contract opportunities in the public and private sector. Additionally, training programs are developed to educate small businesses and buyers on procurement processes, detailed analysis is used.

New York, NY, US

• Served as the primary liaison between various stakeholders in the public and private sectors to build strong relationships and share important information about the City's M/WBE Program and other related supplier.
• Provided direct assistance to city agencies through the use of detailed analysis to understand spending trends, and created and implemented procedures that increase the use of small minority and women owned businesses
• Collected, analyzed, and monitored vendor information with the use of various databases to identify and match vendors to contract opportunities
• Directed audit processes to ensure City government contracts are in compliance with the requirements of the local law
• Managed the support and training of over 500 M/WBE Contracting Officers to drive agency performance and adoption of best practices in the effort to increase the utilization of M/WBEs

New York, NY, US

• Monitored multi-million dollar construction projects and managed field inspection processes to ensure that construction contractors were in compliance with EEO programs and rules and regulations related to NYC.
• Redesigned the Construction Monitoring Program to improve enforcement efforts; Assisted construction contractors to ensure compliance with various diversity programs; developed corrective action plans uniquely designed.
• Produced reports on outcomes to senior management, and developed strategies to facilitate programmatic initiatives
• Performed field inspections and investigations on multi-million dollar public and private sector construction jobs throughout the five boroughs to ensure compliance with the requirements of Executive order 50 and.
• Managed research studies of union and nonunion participants in the NYC construction industry, which identify utilization, growth, and retention of various ethnic and gender groups

New York, NY, US

New York City's M/WBE Program is administered to increase the numbered of certified minority and woman owned firms, and ultimately connect these firms to contract opportunities and capacity building programs.As a Certification Analyst, I thoroughly reviewed certification applications and various business documents for consistency, and used submitted.

Education record

Education record

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Economics And Human Resource Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics