Senior Manager, Legal Project Management (IC)

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Position Summary

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

This Sr. Manager role will report to the Lead Director of the program and support the planning, oversight, and coordination of efforts poised to simplify the way we access and use executed contracts.  A critical team member 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 support the implementation of the program.  Key goals are to support the program through key activities related to implementation and adoption, governance and compliance, and data and reporting.   

The successful candidate will be a thought partner and resilient with dynamic workloads, competing priorities and solving 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:

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

• 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 collaboratively and partners effectively across the enterprise, making sound decisions to progress the program roadmap, following standard operating procedures, and aligning to program strategic components.

• Advances and maintains QuickBase applications for the program, including an executed contract inventory, and a detailed role-based access structure.   

• Develops and maintains program SharePoint site, including document libraries, lists, creating views, site pages, site permissions.

• Tracks progress against key milestones, creating and implementing value-based metrics and analysis to measure outcomes, ensure timely and accurate project completion, providing guidance and support to project teams as needed.

• Works closely with vendor staff to help remove barriers and obstacles, allowing our internal stakeholders to be successful using our solution.

• Has strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills; learns quickly and is self-motivated.

This job might be for you if:

• You're energized by being part of a cross functional team working in a fast-paced environment. You enjoy working in teams with a diverse set of experiences and backgrounds. You listen to others’ ideas with an open mind.

• You’re a leader. And you know this means more than leading people. You know that it means taking initiative with a project - anti