Increasing supplier diversity
“Vertex is proactively building relationships with small and diverse suppliers globally. These small and diverse businesses strengthen and drive economic stability in our communities and create a more resilient, competitive and innovative supply chain.”
–Nicole Kelly, Strategic Sourcing
If you're a small or diverse supplier, click the button below to register your business for potential future opportunities at Vertex.
“Vertex is proactively building relationships with small and diverse suppliers globally. These small and diverse businesses strengthen and drive economic stability in our communities and create a more resilient, competitive and innovative supply chain.”
–Nicole Kelly, Strategic Sourcing
If you're a small or diverse supplier, click the button below to register your business for potential future opportunities at Vertex.
Program overview
By supporting small and diverse suppliers, we are positively impacting the communities where we live and work. Supplier diversity helps innovate, sustain, and progressively transform our supplier base, supporting economic inclusion and development. Supplier diversity is about enhancing competition and ensuring optimal business outcomes.
Vertex sets small business goals and reports those outcomes to the U.S. government each year. In addition, we’ve expanded our program to internally set and track spend goals with diverse businesses in the U.S. and the U.K. To learn more about our goals, please visit our Corporate Responsibility Report.
Our commitment to supplier diversity
Vertex is committed to sourcing responsibly to ensure our suppliers represent our values and commitment to high ethical standards, embrace diversity, act with integrity, practice open communication and collaboration, and operate in a socially and environmentally responsible manner.
We are committed to fostering and maintaining relationships with small and diverse suppliers, including businesses owned by minorities, women, LGBTQ+ individuals, veterans, including service-disabled veterans, and companies that meet U.S. Small Business Administration criteria.
To support our commitment to small and diverse suppliers we participate in the following organizations:
For requests and questions about our Supplier Diversity program, please contact us at Supplier_Diversity@vrtx.com.
If you're a small or diverse supplier, click the button below to register your business for potential future opportunities at Vertex.