Vendor Manager, Business Consultant (Aetna Dental)

**Responsibilities Include:

• Lead and execute the strategic vision for vendor management, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.

• Monitor vendor performance, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, service level agreements, and regulatory requirements.

• Facilitate collaboration between internal stakeholders and vendors for complex deals and strategic initiatives.

• Identify and resolve process gaps, risks, and issues related to vendor relationships. Provide regular reporting and updates to leadership on vendor performance, risks, and opportunities.

• Support audits and compliance deliverables related to vendors

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance vendor management processes and outcomes.

• Facilitate JOC meetings on with health plan leadership, internal stakeholders and vendor representatives

• Provide support for additional projects as assigned, contributing to cross-functional initiatives and organizational objectives.

• Delivers advice to the organization regarding current business trends and best practices by preparing analyses for senior management, stakeholders, and clients.

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Required Qualifications**

• 3+ year healthcare vendor management experience (preferably benefit administrators)
• 5+ years of experience in government programs (Medicaid, Medicare)
• Adept at problem solving and decision-making skills
• Adept at collaboration and teamwork
• Adept at growth mindset (agility and developing yourself and others) skills
• Adept at execution and delivery (planning, delivering, and supporting) skills

Education

• Bachelor's degree preferred/specialized training/relevant professional qualification.

Anticipated Weekly Hours
40Time Type
Full timePay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:$54,300.00 - $159,120.00This 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 peopleWe take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits - investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
• No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefitsWe anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 11/30/2025Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.