About the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia

The Economy League of Greater Philadelphia is the region’s civic think-and-do tank. We work to advance inclusive economic growth by bringing together public, private, nonprofit, and civic leaders around shared challenges and practical solutions. Through research, convening, program design, and implementation, the Economy League helps identify opportunities to strengthen the regional economy and expand access to opportunity.

About PAGE

Philadelphia Anchors for Growth & Equity, or PAGE, is a partnership between the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, the City of Philadelphia, and regional anchor institutions including hospitals, universities, public agencies, and major institutional buyers. PAGE works to grow local and diverse businesses by increasing their access to procurement opportunities, institutional relationships, technical assistance, capital, and capacity-building resources.

PAGE serves as both a partner to institutional buyers seeking to diversify and localize spend, and a resource hub for businesses seeking to compete for larger contracts. The initiative supports businesses through direct outreach, opportunity matching, RFP navigation, technical assistance referrals, events, strategic introductions, and ongoing relationship management.

About SupplyPHL

SupplyPHL is a partnership between the City of Philadelphia and three local nonprofits dedicated to helping grow the region’s business-to-business community so that local businesses can compete for institutional work with the City and other large stakeholders across the region.

Through SupplyPHL, partner organizations help businesses understand institutional opportunities, prepare for procurement processes, connect with relevant supports, and build the capacity needed to pursue larger contracts.

Position Overview

The PAGE Business & Opportunity Manager will play a central role in helping PAGE identify, organize, share, and follow up on procurement opportunities for local and diverse businesses across the Philadelphia region.

This position is designed for someone who is highly organized, relationship-driven, curious, persistent, and comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment. The person in this role will support the day-to-day execution of PAGE and SupplyPHL by managing follow-up with businesses, tracking anchor and public procurement opportunities, maintaining clean data systems, supporting meetings and events, and helping the PAGE team understand what businesses are experiencing in the marketplace.

The ideal candidate is a strong generalist: someone who can read an RFP, call a business owner, update a CRM, take useful meeting notes, schedule follow-ups, identify patterns, and help translate what they are learning into better program strategy. Just as importantly, this person must be a strong team player who collaborates generously, communicates openly, supports colleagues, and steps in wherever needed to help the PAGE team succeed.

This role will provide critical support to the PAGE team, including helping take on key execution and follow-up responsibilities for SupplyPHL so that senior program staff can focus on broader PAGE strategy, anchor relationships, policy work, and program growth.

Business Relationship Management

• Manage regular outreach and follow-up with a portfolio of PAGE-connected businesses, including local, diverse, minority-owned, women-owned, disabled-owned, and small businesses.
• Build trust with business owners by understanding their services, capacity, growth goals, current challenges, and readiness for institutional opportunities.
• Help businesses navigate PAGE offerings, including procurement opportunities, events, trainings, strategic introductions, and technical assistance referrals.
• Conduct periodic check-ins with businesses to understand:
  • Opportunities they are pursuing
  • Contracts they have won or lost
  • Barriers they are facing
  • Support they need from PAGE or partner organizations
  • Changes in capacity, staffing, certifications, service areas, or business goals
• Maintain timely and accurate notes on business interactions in PAGE’s CRM or project management systems.
• Identify business success stories, barriers, and trends that should be elevated for reporting, communications, or strategy conversations.

RFP and Opportunity Tracking

• Help maintain and refresh PAGE’s Anchor Opportunities Hub, including public RFPs, anchor procurement opportunities, negotiated opportunities, and other relevant business leads.
• Regularly search for new sources of RFPs and procurement opportunities from anchor institutions, public agencies, quasi-public entities, and other relevant buyers.
• Review RFPs and opportunity postings to understand scope, eligibility requirements, deadlines, buyer needs, contract size, and potential fit for PAGE-connected businesses.
• Match opportunities to appropriate businesses based on industry, capacity, geography, certification status, past experience, and expressed interest.
• Share timely opportunity information with businesses and follow up to understand whether they are interested, able to respond, or facing barriers.
• Track opportunity status, business referrals, submissions, outcomes, and lessons learned.

SupplyPHL and Program Support

• Support day-to-day execution of SupplyPHL and related PAGE programming, including business outreach, follow-up, scheduling, opportunity matching, CRM updates, and partner coordination.
• Help ensure that businesses connected to SupplyPHL and PAGE receive timely communication and clear next steps.
• Support the PAGE team in identifying which businesses are ready for which types of opportunities, and where additional capacity-building support may be needed.
• Coordinate with internal staff and external partners to connect businesses to resources such as financing, certifications, technical assistance, proposal support, back-office services, bonding, insurance, and mentorship.

Anchor and Institutional Engagement Support

• Attend meetings with anchor institutions, public agencies, and procurement partners as needed.
• Take clear, useful notes on institutional needs, upcoming opportunities, buyer requirements, procurement timelines, and potential barriers for local businesses.
• Help translate institutional conversations into actionable next steps for PAGE businesses and staff.
• Support relationship-building with anchors by tracking follow-up items, preparing meeting materials, organizing opportunity information, and helping maintain institutional relationship records.
• Over time, support direct relationship management with selected anchors, sectors, or opportunity categories.

Data, Reporting, and Learning

• Maintain accurate records in PAGE’s CRM, Anchor Opportunities Hub, and related data systems.
• Track business engagement, opportunity referrals, contract outcomes, barriers, and other program metrics.
• Support reporting to funders, partners, and internal leadership by collecting and organizing both quantitative data and qualitative insights.
• Identify patterns in business needs, procurement barriers, anchor behavior, opportunity flow, and market trends.
• Help the PAGE team answer questions such as:
  • Which types of businesses are seeing the most opportunity?
  • Which anchors are producing the most actionable opportunities?
  • What kinds of RFPs are most common?
  • Where are businesses getting stuck?
  • What supports are most needed?
  • Which opportunities are converting into real contracts?
• Contribute to dashboards, summaries, memos, newsletters, and program updates as needed.

Convenings, Communications, and General Program Execution

• Support planning, outreach, logistics, and follow-up for PAGE events, workshops, business convenings, and anchor meetings.
• Help prepare agendas, meeting notes, business lists, opportunity briefs, and follow-up materials.
• Contribute content for PAGE communications, including newsletters, event follow-ups, opportunity alerts, and business resource updates.
• Participate in Economy League staff meetings, PAGE team planning, funder updates, and other organizational activities.
• Jump in where needed to support a small, fast-moving team.

Qualifications

Strong candidates may bring experience from nonprofit program management, small business support, supplier diversity, economic development, procurement, customer success, account management, sales, workforce development, community development, or related fields.

Required Qualifications

• 3–6 years of relevant professional experience in program management, relationship management, business support, procurement, supplier diversity, customer success, economic development, or a related field.
• Strong ability to manage multiple relationships, deadlines, tasks, and follow-up items at once.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfort reaching out proactively to business owners, institutional partners, and ecosystem organizations.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to take clear notes, track next steps, and maintain accurate records.
• Comfort using CRM, project management, spreadsheet, or database tools.
• Ability to understand and explain complex information in plain language.
• Demonstrated commitment to racial equity, inclusive economic development, and supporting local and diverse businesses.
• Willingness to travel within the Philadelphia region for meetings, events, and business/site visits.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working directly with small businesses, entrepreneurs, MWDBEs, or local vendors.
• Familiarity with RFPs, RFQs, public procurement, institutional purchasing, supplier diversity, vendor registration, insurance, bonding, or certifications.
• Knowledge of Philadelphia’s business ecosystem, anchor institutions, community development landscape, or public-sector procurement environment.
• Experience supporting grant reporting, impact tracking, dashboards, or funder updates.
• Experience in construction, facilities, food systems, healthcare supply chain, higher education, professional services, or another PAGE-relevant industry.
• Experience organizing events, workshops, trainings, or business convenings.
• Bilingual English and Spanish ability is a plus, but not required.

Core Competencies

Work Environment, Schedule, and Compensation

Full-time, exempt role based in Philadelphia with a hybrid schedule, including a mix of in-office, remote, field-based, and partner-facing work. Frequent in-person meetings with local businesses, anchor institutions, public agencies, and partner organizations across the Philadelphia region should be expected. Some early morning, evening, or occasional weekend hours may be required for events, convenings, and meetings.

Compensation range: $60,000–$75,000, commensurate with skills and experience, plus benefits. This position is grant funded.

What Success Looks Like in the First 6–12 Months

Within the first year, the PAGE Business & Opportunity Manager should be able to:

• Build strong working relationships with a defined portfolio of PAGE and SupplyPHL businesses.
• Maintain consistent follow-up with businesses and keep CRM records current.
• Help refresh and manage the Anchor Opportunities Hub.
• Identify and share relevant RFPs and procurement opportunities with appropriate businesses.
• Track which businesses are pursuing opportunities and what barriers they face.
• Support Tia and the broader PAGE team by taking on key execution and follow-up responsibilities.
• Develop a working understanding of PAGE’s anchor institutions, public procurement sources, and business support partners.
• Produce useful summaries of trends, barriers, wins, and opportunities for internal strategy and external reporting.
• Help the PAGE team become more responsive, more organized, and better able to connect businesses to real opportunities.

Ready to Join the Team?

To Apply

Complete the PAGE Business & Opportunity Manager application. Please submit your resume and responses through the form for consideration.

PAGE Business & Opportunity Manager Application