Manager Technology Vendor Management

Location: Arizona

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

CVS Health is looking for hands-on, passionate people who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in customers' lives and who want to be on the forefront of digital innovation that aims to reinvent what a pharmacy and a health care company can be in the digital world. Currently, our team is seeking a Manager
-Technology Vendor Management that will work with Technology Engineering organizations, ensuring efficient coordination of software acquisition, utilization, and license management activities. As an individual contributor, this Manager will collaborate with sourcing, finance, asset management and contracts teams to successfully complete the acquisitions. The goal of this team is to strive to procure, replace, upgrade, evaluate and maintain software assets to meet capacity demand and technology requirements.

We proactively support IT roadmap and long-term vision with a focus on effectively managing Contracts, Products, Vendors, T&Cs, compliance, assets utilization, optimize costs, and risks.

Expectations for the Role Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into licenses acquisition requirements and coordinate efforts with procurement and contract team, while ensuring software quality, SLA, cost effectiveness, privacy, and compliance

Be innovative and devise negotiation strategy and license matrix that is beneficial to the company and in line with IT's long-term vision of product and technology roadmap

Collaborate with product subject matter experts, procurement sourcing and contracts team, finance, asset management and renewal teams to achieve successful execution and effective maintenance of software contracts, performance, and deliverables

Assist engineering teams in navigating technology and contract-related matters, provide support and guidance to ensure effective utilization of technology and adherence to contract terms

Provide guidance and support to leadership, stakeholders, procurement, and contracts teams on software evaluation, acquisitions, and maintenance of contractual terms

Identify opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements

Proactively negotiate favorable business terms and cost of third-party software

Optimize the utilization of products and assets through effective management

Offer expertise and insights to assist in making informed decisions on contracts

Cultivate and manage vendor relationships effectively

Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the IT industry landscape and technological developments

Required Qualifications 5+ years working within Information Technology or Software Engineering, with a preferred focus on infrastructure engineering, application development, data engineering or large-scale systems3+ years hands on experience working on Datacenter, Infrastructure, Network and Cloud servers2+ years of experience with third-party technologies and vendor support management2+ years solving complex business or technical problems and proposing solutions

Preferred Qualifications

IT Contracts Management

Skills:

Excellent contracts management skills, with expertise in managing contractual terms, cost, compliance, and utilization of licenses

Business

Skills:

Ability to understand technical requirements and well experience in translating technical requirement into business discussions with non-technical teams

Leadership

Skills:

Demonstrated ability to influence leadership, vendors, technical teams, and drive successful outcomes in a collaborative environment, with a focus on managing contracts with excellence

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (High school diploma plus 4 years relevant work experience)
Anticipated Weekly Hours
40

Time Type Full time

Pay…