Category IT Manager Procurement

Category IT Manager Procurement

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience related to IT Strategic Sourcing & Category Management creating category planning aligned with and in partnership with IT and BU stakeholders and their roadmap strategies
• Experience in managing value added resellers VARs
• Experience of building and presenting complex business cases to senior leaders in Procurement, Finance, IT and Business Units
• Ability to travel up to 10% for supplier presentations, site visits, and key department meetings at RI Headquarters (no more than quarterly)

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain short, medium and long term category management and strategic sourcing plans, spend profiles, and pipeline of opportunities
• Schedule and maintain cadence of regularly scheduled sourcing and category management reviews and planning sessions with key leaders within the assigned business area; establish self as category management and strategic sourcing leader and 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
• Serve as execution lead on major Sourcing events with high complexity, spend, and/or visibility
• Educate business partners on policies and processes in place to support Strategic Sourcing; communicate and demonstrate team’s value proposition
• Maintain status of all completed, active, and planned sourcing activities to review with Strategic Sourcing management
• Effectively communicate Strategic Sourcing’s value proposition and goals to key leaders and stakeholders
• Leverage spend analytics, market intelligence, and expiring contracts reporting to continuously build pipeline of opportunities for sourcing to address within category
• 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
• Work with stakeholders to develop bid strategies and create effective scope of work documents for competitive bid processes
• 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
• Collaborate with CVS Health’s contracting team to identify new and creative approaches to contracting with vendor partners

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with electronic sourcing platforms, such as ServiceNow, Ariba eSourcing, etc.
• MBA or relevant master’s degree
• Background and use of Project/Program Management tools and methodology (Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, etc.)
• Experience with IT Supply Chain, Procurement Analytics, Project Management, or Management Consulting