Director, Vendor Engagement Strategy
Centene Corporation
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Florida • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $160,800 - $296,600 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Responsible for identifying, evaluating, and integrating external innovations that can drive strategic advantage for the enterprise
- Serve as the organization's external radar—scanning the global technology landscape for disruptive trends, startups, academic research, and vendor capabilities
- Translate insights into actionable opportunities that feed into enterprise architecture and strategic planning
- Lead a structured, ongoing technology scouting program across startups, research institutions, think tanks, and vendor ecosystems
- Identify and assess emerging technologies, business models, and innovation patterns with potential enterprise impact
- Build and manage an innovation pipeline that aligns with enterprise priorities and domain and product architectural roadmaps
- Collaborate closely with Enterprise Architecture, the CIOs/MTLs and Domain & Product Managers
- Design and oversee pilot programs to test and validate new technologies in partnership with business and IT stakeholders
- Represent Centene in external innovation forums, consortia, and strategic partnerships
- Develop and maintain a knowledge base of emerging trends, competitive intelligence, and innovation benchmarks
- Provide executive-level briefings and recommendations to senior leadership on innovation opportunities and risks
Requirements
- Requires a Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of related experience, including prior management experience
- Or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position
Benefits
- competitive pay
- health insurance
- 401K and stock purchase plans
- tuition reimbursement
- paid time off plus holidays
- flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules
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Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationstrategic planninginnovation managementexecutive communicationanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingproject managementstakeholder engagementtechnology scouting
Certifications
Bachelor's degree