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Position Summary
The Category Manager, Strategic Sourcing advances CVS Health's procurement transformation by leading datadriven, 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.
Key Responsibilities
Sourcing Execution & Strategic Enablement
Lead moderately complex to complex sourcing events aligned to category strategies and enterprise priorities, supporting near and longterm category objectives
Own endtoend 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 tradeoffs to deliver compliant, valuefocused 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
Analytics & Decision Support
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
Transformation & Continuous Improvement
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
Stakeholder & Team Collaboration
Act as a primary sourcing partner to crossfunctional stakeholders, presenting sourcing strategies, insights, and recommendations to business audiences to support alignment and decisionmaking
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 longterm value realization
Key Competencies
Strong analytical skills applied to data, automation, and AI to improve sourcing execution
Operates independently in a matrixed environment with sound judgment and appropriate escalation
Clear, influential communicator of sourcing insights and recommendations to stakeholders
Manages multiple complex priorities while delivering highquality results
Proactive, collaborative owner with a continuousimprovement mindset
Qualifications
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
Education
Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience is required; MBA or advanced degree preferred
Work Model: Hybrid
Candidates within commuting distance to Woonsocket, RI; Hartford, CT; Buffalo Grove, IL; will work onsite two days per week.
Anticipated Weekly Hours
40
Time Type
Full time
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$66,330.00 - $145,860.00
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
This fulltime position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 06/22/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.