Category Manager, Strategic Sourcing
About The Position
We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary The Category Manager, Strategic Sourcing advances CVS Health’s procurement transformation by leading data‑driven, digitally enabled sourcing initiatives and supporting category management across indirect spend. Leveraging prior managerial sourcing experience, this role partners with category leaders and stakeholders to shape and execute sourcing and category strategies, applying analytics, digital workflows, automation, and AI to drive enterprise value, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in sourcing, procurement, finance, analytics, consulting, or a related field
- Advanced proficiency in Excel; experience with data visualization, dashboards, or procurement analytics tools
- Demonstrated experience leading RFx processes, sourcing platforms, contract analysis, or digital transformation initiatives
- Experience working in large, complex, or matrixed organizations strongly preferred
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience is required
Nice To Haves
- MBA or advanced degree preferred
Responsibilities
- Lead moderately complex to complex sourcing events aligned to category strategies and enterprise priorities, supporting near‑ and long‑term category objectives
- Own end‑to‑end RFx development, including scopes of work, evaluation frameworks, and award recommendations informed by category insights and market dynamics
- Lead supplier engagement and negotiations, developing negotiation strategies and commercial trade‑offs to deliver compliant, value‑focused outcomes aligned to category roadmaps
- Serve as an escalation point for execution and negotiation issues, partnering with category leaders to mitigate risk and protect category strategy
- Perform advanced analysis of spend, supplier performance, contracts, and proposals to influence strategy
- Identify risks, value opportunities, and improvement levers across assigned categories
- Deliver executive-level insights linking data to business and financial outcomes
- Lead adoption of sourcing processes, analytics, reporting, and digital tools
- Contribute to standardization, best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Partner with senior leaders on pilots and transformation programs, owning assigned workstreams
- Support knowledge sharing and capability building across the team
- Act as a primary sourcing partner to cross‑functional stakeholders, presenting sourcing strategies, insights, and recommendations to business audiences to support alignment and decision‑making
- Provide informal coaching to elevate sourcing and analytics capabilities, including guiding stakeholders through insights, tools, and outputs
- Build trusted relationships with category teams by clearly articulating sourcing outcomes and value stories that support strategy and long‑term value realization
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision coverage
- paid time off
- retirement savings options
- wellness programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
