Senior Manager – Strategic Planning

CVS Health

Senior Manager handling strategic planning for CVS Health's Pharmacy Analytics team. Collaborating across functions for product and portfolio execution and growth strategies.

Posted 6/7/2026full-timeMassachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $82,940 - $182,549 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as the ‘tip of the spear’ for AI, retail, pharmacy, and market intelligence, bringing critical insights on evolving product and market landscape(s) and enterprise activity to Pharmacy Analytics and other stakeholders.
Work with cross-functional teams to assess opportunities, develop strategic positions, and build robust business cases aligned with the company’s strategic objectives, short-term, and long-range business plans.
Shape and codify the product strategy through corporate planning and annual strategic initiatives
Lead the evaluation and piloting of next-generation products and services, utilizing lean startup approaches to validate and iterate solutions for market readiness and revenue growth
Conceptualize initiatives that leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning to enhance existing offerings or unlock new opportunities
Lead strategic partnership evaluations, including relationship building, use case development, capability assessments, and contracting
Partner with Pharmacy and Consumer Wellness business partners to translate complex technology and product developments into business implications and strategic positioning for the organization
Collaborate with Pharmacy and Consumer Wellness Analytics Product, Consumer, Operations, Finance, Merch, and Supply Chain teams to co-design offerings and ensure the viability and successful delivery of emerging capabilities.
Grow to collaborate with Enterprise Strategy teams to ensure alignment across the CVS Health enterprise
Steer highly effective leadership meetings, adapting in real time to drive decisions and positioning oneself as a trusted advisor to key stakeholders.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree required
Advanced degree is highly preferred (MBA, MPH, or MHA)
8 or more years of experience in a dynamic, fast-moving, related profession (e.g., management consulting, corporate strategy, product innovation or design)
5 or more years of health care industry experience
Highly strategic and structural thinker who is comfortable with ambiguity and simplifying complex problems
Background working in a matrixed environment, aligning stakeholders and navigating competing priorities
Strong written and verbal communication skills including delivering structured presentations, crafting PowerPoint and Excel analysis, and communicating with executive presence and active listening
Comfort with market sizing and commercial modeling to determine ROI and long-term viability
Demonstrated experience with solution ideation and executing pilots or proofs of concept.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental, and vision coverage
paid time off
retirement savings options
wellness programs
other resources, based on eligibility

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Hard Skills & Tools

Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learningmarket sizingcommercial modelingsolution ideationexecuting pilotsproofs of concept

Soft Skills

strategic thinkingstructural thinkingcommunication skillspresentation skillsactive listeningrelationship buildingproblem-solvingcollaborationleadership

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeMBAMPHMHA