
Research Manager – Customer Experience Strategy
CVS Health
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Rhode Island • United States
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Salary
💰 $54,300 - $159,120 per year
About the role
- Lead and evolve the digital twin research agenda, ensuring simulations and outputs directly address priority business questions
- Continuously refine research use cases as data availability, platform capabilities, and strategic needs shift to maximize relevance and organizational impact
- Partner closely with stakeholders across product, operations, and strategy to clarify objectives, constraints, and decision timing
- Facilitate conversations that refine research questions, challenge assumptions, set realistic expectations, and ensure the digital twin is applied to the most valuable problems
- Execute digital-twin analyses that test hypotheses, compare alternative futures, and generate evidence that supports confident decision‑making across diverse business contexts
- Translate simulation outputs into meaningful insights by identifying patterns, tradeoffs, risks, and opportunities
- Connect findings to strategic implications, moving beyond analysis to articulate relevance, expected impacts, and the “why it matters” behind observed dynamics
- Develop clear, evidence‑based recommendations informed by digital twin insights
- Frame decision pathways, scenario implications, and potential outcomes, equipping stakeholders with the guidance needed for planning, resource allocation, and strategic prioritization
- Craft compelling, audience‑appropriate narratives that distill complex insights into clear, action‑oriented messages
- Deliver visually strong, confident presentations that build trust in the digital twin’s value while transparently acknowledging uncertainties and limitations
- Ensure insights are understood, trusted, and embedded in decision processes by partnering with teams on application, workflow integration, and change management
- Monitor adoption, gather feedback, and iterate approaches to strengthen practical impact and organizational confidence
- Collaborate with Customer Insights and other research teams to align methodologies, validate findings, and identify where digital twin research can extend, complement, or stress‑test primary research
- Integrate outputs into cohesive, holistic narratives across the broader insights ecosystem
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience with formal research methods, statistics, and analyses that are common in marketing research
- 4+ years of experience designing, planning, analyzing, and delivering successful qualitative and quantitative customer research across a variety of methodologies that meet business partner objectives
- 3+ years generation of experience creating visualization and reports using BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau
- 3+ years developing KPIs and turn insights into actions demonstrating where stakeholders should make impacts and monitor improvements
- 3+ years of creating quality control process and participating and completing UAT testing
- Independent project management skills: strong attention to detail and ability to proactively manage multiple priorities simultaneously (often about different subjects)
- Compelling communication and storytelling skills, including communication of insights and recommendations both in writing and verbal presentations in a digestible manner that is actionable to the business
- A strategic mindset with an ability to connect insights across a variety of data sources and to link them to the operational and financial realities of the business
- Curiosity about our customers and a desire to drive a better and richer understanding of our customers and their needs deeper into the organization
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively across internal team members, stakeholders and vendor partners
- Demonstrates capabilities of following health industry trends and proactively conducting research
- Experience working in a complex organization across a variety of stakeholder groups
- Experience working with agentic & simulation tools
- 3 + years working with SQL, R, Python, and other stats packages
Benefits
- Affordable medical plan options
- 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions)
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
digital twinresearch methodsstatisticsqualitative researchquantitative researchdata visualizationKPI developmentUAT testingSQLPython
Soft Skills
project managementattention to detailcommunication skillsstorytellingstrategic mindsetcuriositycollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilitystakeholder engagement