IT Strategic Sourcing Category Manager

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain short, medium, and long term category sourcing plans, spend profiles, and pipeline
• Schedule and maintain cadence of regularly scheduled sourcing category reviews and planning sessions with key leaders within the assigned business area; establish self as category sourcing expert
• Guide analyst base on sourcing activities to ensure successful execution of RFx events for category
• Accountable for quantifying and delivering against savings targets for category
• Execute sourcing events with high complexity, spend, and/or visibility
• Maintain strong working relationship with CVS Health’s business and vendor management teams, ensuring that Strategic Sourcing is engaged early on all prospective engagements requiring vendor support
• Collaborate with CVS Health’s contracting team to identify new and creative approaches to contracting with vendor partners
• Develop processes to ensure that CVS Health’s business stakeholders are utilizing preferred suppliers wherever possible, thereby leveraging the enterprise’s scale to drive greater value for the company

Requirements

• 5-8 years of professional experience related to Sourcing & Category Management, Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Analytics, Project Management, or Management Consulting
• Ability to travel up to 10% for supplier presentations, site visits, and key department meetings at RI Headquarters (no more than quarterly)

Qualifications

• Possess a strong business acumen and high level of problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to confidently and expertly interact with internal and external stakeholders
• Strong analytical ability, strategic thinker, learn and process new information quickly
• Organized and project management skills, shown ability to handle multiple tasks without direct supervision, while paying strong attention to detail and follow-up
• Intellectually curious, eager to gain new experiences, qualifications, and responsibilities
• Shown ability to negotiate effectively and manage vendor relationships