Enterprise Strategy Sr. Manager , Healthcare (IC)

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

Position Summary

The Enterprise Strategy team is looking for a dynamic and creative team member who is passionate about driving change across the healthcare industry and improving health outcomes. This role is a great fit for an out-of-the-box thinker who is intellectually curious, self-motivated, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and high-energy who can easily function in a demanding, rapidly evolving business and organizational environment. This role is an excellent opportunity for mentorship and personal development from a senior team of highly experienced industry experts.

The Enterprise Strategy team is responsible for helping steward the development of the company’s long-term strategy and associated priorities, connecting each business unit to those priorities, exploring white space opportunities for growth, and connecting the dots across businesses to accelerate existing revenue streams. Our team has a unique opportunity to sit on the cutting edge of CVS Health’s future aspirations and enable our future strategy, specifically in pharmacy, health services, and technology. We connect business units to our priorities, both accelerating existing revenue streams and exploring net new areas of growth.

The Sr. Manager is an individual contributor who will play a pivotal role to supporting new growth initiatives and enabling execution of key strategic priorities. You will operate within a nimble team dedicated to top priority strategic initiatives with executive leadership visibility. You will closely partner with business stakeholders across our core businesses, including Caremark, Retail Pharmacy and new strategic ventures across Health Care Delivery. This role requires comfort in working with ambiguity, as our team strives to create simplicity within complex, cross-functional strategic challenges. You will utilize market insights alongside CVS-focused expertise to help chart the path forward for a vertically integrated health care company.

Core Responsibilities:

• Lead key qualitative and quantitative analyses, creating cohesive storylines and actionable recommendations to deliver value to our customers, clients, and shareholders
• Drive identification and development of new growth opportunities, including scanning market developments, remaining current on healthcare and consumer trends, and tracking new innovation and potential disruptors
• Effectively synthesize insights and develop materials to support senior executive-level decision-making, both within existing CVS Health business units and across the Enterprise
• Support process management for business unit leadership, including goals tracking and agenda development for executive leadership forums
• Conduct research and competitive intelligence, utilizing internal and external sources, to inform strategic recommendations
• Collaborate across the Enterprise Strategy team and with business partners across CVS, building strong relationships and effectively partnering with Finance and Operations stakeholders to translate strategy into execution 

Required Qualifications

• 7 years of experience in a dynamic, fast-moving profession; related experience within management consulting, corporate development, financial analysis, public policy, product development, mergers and acquisitions, or similar role(s)
• Expertise in storyboarding and logically framing presentations, both in written deliverables and in facilitating live discussions
• Executive presence: demonstrated ability to actively listen, empathize, and communicate effectively
• Comfort in ambiguity; demonstrated ability to simplify complex problems and concepts
• Comfort working in a matrixed environment and in managing competing priorities; demonstrated ability to juggle concurrent projects and prioritize effectively
• Ability to “manage up”, influencing internal and external partners, often more senior in job title

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of payor, provider, and product segments of the healthcare and pharmacy industry
• Growth mindset and commitment to deepening expertise across the healthcare industry
• Demonstrated ability developing analysis, presentations, and supporting material to successfully implement strategy or change management initiatives
• Experience building and evaluating financial models

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