Lead Director, Corporate Affairs Project Management

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Position Summary

This position will be part of the Corporate Affairs team implementing an enterprise-wide program to centralize all executed agreements onto one software platform and may assist with other cross-functional initiatives as needed.

This Lead Director role will support the planning, oversight, and coordination of efforts poised to simplify the way we access and use executed contracts.  A critical team leader in driving governance, process, reporting, communication and resourcing components of the program, including strong project management disciplines and offering significant exposure to business segment, functional and corporate leaders.

This role is for an advocate, change agent and trusted advisor for the business relationship, driving engagement and adoption. It requires a blend of project management, legal contract knowledge, vendor engagement, and technical savvy to lead the implementation of the program.  Key goals are to lead the program through key activities related to implementation and adoption, governance and compliance, and data and reporting. Key skills include collaborating cross-functionally to secure required resources and creating and uses formal processes and tools to manage resources, budgets, risks and changes, as well as to assessing roadblocks to ensure on-time completion according to specifications and within budget.

The successful candidate will be a thought partner and resilient with dynamic workloads, competing priorities and complex business problems.  We are looking for a strategic thinker that brings tactical change with the willingness to encourage trust and collaboration between business, finance, technology and other business partners.

The ideal candidate:

-Leads and manages projects and programs from initiation to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and according to the defined scope.

-Collaborates with senior management to develop strategic plans and objectives for projects.

-Identifies project stakeholders, establishes effective communication channels, and manages their expectations.

-Develops mitigation strategies to minimize potential negative impacts while regularly monitoring risks and implementing contingency plans when necessary.

-Monitors expenditures throughout the project lifecycle and ensures adherence to financial constraints.

-Prepares and presents project progress reports to stakeholders and senior management.

-Identifies areas for improvement in project and program management processes.

-Implements best practices, lessons learned, and industry standards to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

-Provides leadership and guidance to project teams by assigning responsibilities, setting performance expectations, and motivating team members to achieve project objectives.

-Encourages an environment that promotes innovation, collaboration, teamwork and ability to think strategically, while also being able to understand detail and execute tactically as needed.

-Effectively listens and uses skills such as influencing without authority to help drive conversations with legal and business stakeholders to communicate the business need, program value and vision, and timeline expectations, while ensuring program stays on track.

-Proven experience successfully implementing change in complex organizations; builds and maintains strong relationships with technical and non-technical resources and is a champion for our program and processes.

-Operates with a keen process/function, data/reporting and project discipline being mindful of audiences and artifacts to convey the most efficient messaging.

-Manages multiple competing priorities and delivers on tight timelines, while ensuring all engaged teams are also delivering on time.

-Identifies improvement and implements new practices that will effectively influence this enterprise-wide program with our end users, exhibiting CVS Heart at Work Values.

-Works closely with vendor staff to help remove barriers and obstacles, allowing our internal stakeholders to be successful us