Category IT Manager Procurement
| Company | CVS Health |
|---|---|
| Location | Wheeling, IL, USA, Smithfield, RI, USA |
| Salary | $66330 – $145860 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | MBA |
| Experience Level | Senior |
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