Senior Manager – Data Forecast Product Owner

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Position Summary

This role is a Product Owner of the application supporting our pricing operations teams.  This tool is vital to the success of a transformational underwriting initiative to drive profitability across the enterprise.

As a Sr Manager you will be the subject matter expert responsible for supporting the design, strategy, and build of foundational data forecasting tools to support PBM pricing and underwriting functions. You will be tasked with developing a deep understanding of the business and business needs to ensure analytical requirements are accurately captured, communicated to key stakeholders, and prioritized appropriately on the project roadmap. This will include prioritization between development, new pricing strategies, and existing capability enhancements. You will support business validation testing and be responsible for performing overall data integrity checks using applications such as Databricks, Microsoft Excel, and Tableau. Finally, you will assist with live client pricing support as well as training underwriting on how to use this information to develop their pricing strategy.

This is a unique role that leverages the ability to combine business and technology acumen to operate as a leader and detail-oriented expert. The role will work closely with the leader of the ecosystem, product owners, and IT colleagues to facilitate a strong relationship to bring the vision and strategy to life through clear prioritization and value proposition for Underwriting. You will be accountable for supporting the development team and users to facilitate resolution, communication, and training on fully tested solutions to meet the business needs.

Responsibilities

Manage, organize, and prioritize underwriting feedback and capabilities in the product roadmap Leverage deep understanding of the business to ensure analytical requirements are accurately captured and communicated to key stakeholders Complete user acceptance testing and assist with QA to minimize live production defects in the tool Owner of the Data Forecast Mart (DFM) product roadmap with real-time backlog management, ensuring stakeholder alignment and visibility throughout the year Develop controls and standard operating procedures to create efficiency and structure within the application Work with a broad range of functions to ensure assumptions used in modeling are consistent with current best estimates of the business Drive reporting and training needs for downstream business partners Ensure cross-functional alignment across both legacy and new applications to ensure consistency

This role may be located out of our offices in Northbrook, IL, Scottsdale, AZ or Woonsocket, RI. We are also open to a work from home/fully remote arrangement as well.
 

Our organization offers a competitive benefit package including vacation paid time off, holiday/sick time, health/dental/vision insurance, work/life balance, employee discounted stock purchase program, 401K, tuition reimbursement and employee discounts at all CVS stores.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of project management, analytical experience (excel, Tableau)
• 5+ years of professional work experience in PBM/healthcare industry
• 3+ years experience, either directly or indirectly managing a team and coaching and mentoring a diverse group of colleagues

Preferred Qualifications

• Coding experience (SQL, SAS, or Python)
• Experience working with IT and Scrum methodology
• Strong collaboration skills and willingness to work across business units within a complex organization
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Experience prioritizing work and communicating in a manner that is clear, logical, consistent, and effective
• Innovative mindset and ability to work outside of established boundaries
• Results oriented with ability to keep others on task to meet defined goals
• Degree related to finance, mathematics, statistics, actuarial science, economics or other data related fields

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$82,940.00 - $182,549.00

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