Job Description

Job Description
Are you looking for a career where you can make an impact in your next role? CVS Health, a Fortune 5 company, is currently seeking a Contract Operations Advisor to join our team.

As part of the Trade Relations Team, you will support a group that plays an important role in reducing the costs of goods for our clients and helping to make pharmaceuticals more accessible. The Contract Operations Advisor works with multiple internal and external stakeholders to generate, red-line, and prepare contract documents for signature as part of finalizing CVS Caremark negotiated Rebate agreements with pharmaceutical manufacturers. In this role you will work on a variety of document types and across many contracted relationships. You will also track document status and work with the team to prioritize documents based on multiple considerations.

An ideal candidate will have experience with contract support and document redlining in Microsoft Word as well as familiarity with the pharmacy benefit management space. Your high attention to detail, critical thinking skills and ability to manage multiple complex agreements simultaneously to identify, assess and elevate critical issues will be critical to your success. These contracts must accurately reflect CVS Caremarks current business strategies and must have approval from all respective business units, in accordance with the Contract Review and Approval Process SOP and all current regulatory requirements.

This position reports to and serves as an Advisor to the Manager Contract Operations helping to implement and coordinate various team initiatives at the request of the Manager.

You will:
- Work with document redlines and ensuring version control of assigned contracts
- Gain familiarity with our standard contract language as well as develop the ability to write, draft, and suggest modified language
- Track status of assigned contracts and ensuring timely contract execution
- Maintain a collaborative, effective relationship with internal stakeholders, Trade Relations colleagues, and pharmaceutical manufacturers
- Collaborate and work with internal stakeholders on contract language and provisions.
- Work with manufacturer account representatives and/or legal counsel on contract language changes.
- Responsible for the review and accuracy of the final documents and ensuring all proper internal approvals are obtain prior to submitting the contract for signature.

This position will be located out of our offices in Irving, TX, Northbrook, IL or Solon, OH.

Join the company helping people on their path to better health! Our organization offers a competitive benefit package including vacation and holiday paid time off, health/dental/vision insurance, work/life balance, employee discounted stock purchase program, 401K, tuition reimbursement, and employee discounts at all CVS stores.

Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of contract support or contract interpretation experience
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word

Preferred Qualifications
-3+ years of PBM, pharmaceutical manufacturer, or relevant healthcare experience that includes general knowledge of the pharmaceutical space preferred

Education
Bachelor's Degree required; equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

Business Overview
At CVS Health, we are joined in a common purpose: helping people on their path to better health. We are working to transform health care through innovations that make quality care more accessible, easier to use, less expensive and patient-focused. Working together and organizing around the individual, we are pioneering a new approach to total health that puts people at the heart.

We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, ethnicity, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status or on any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.