Analytic Strategy and Product Innovation Office, Executive Director

Job Description
We are America’s leading health solutions company (Fortune #4), delivering care in ways no one else can. Our purpose is simple and clear: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. We are working to transform health care through innovations that make quality care more accessible, easier to use, less expensive and patient focused. Working together and organizing around the individual, we are pioneering a new approach to total health that puts people at the heart.

Analytics & Behavior Change is an innovation engine supporting the entire CVS Health organization (Aetna health care business, retail, and pharmacy services) by embedding deep insights into key decision processes and focusing on our biggest, most complex problems. We partner with business leaders throughout the organization using advanced analytics tools, modeling, and machine learning to generate insights by using data to create meaningful impact. We’re focused on creating new opportunities that drive change across the enterprise in areas such as:

• Customer experience and behavior change
• Digital health
• Provider efficiency and effectiveness
• Health care cost savings
• Clinical services/care management
• Fraud, waste, and abuse detection/prevention
• Clinical trial recruitment and engagement
• Patient safety

We are inspired to make a difference through data by making health care human-centered and connecting people to the information they need to feel the joy of achieving their best health. Analytics & Behavior Change has the feel of a startup within one of the nation’s largest companies, and we’re looking for people who are motivated by solving tough challenges to join us in transforming health care….one line of code at a time.

It’s a new day in health care.
Combining CVS Health and Aetna was a transformative moment for our company and our industry, establishing CVS Health as the nation’s premier health innovation company. Through our health services, insurance plans and community pharmacists, we’re pioneering a bold new approach to total health. As a CVS Health colleague, you’ll be at the center of it all.
We offer a diverse work experience that empowers colleagues for career success. In addition to skill and experience, we also seek to attract and retain colleagues whose beliefs and behaviors are in alignment with our core values of collaboration, innovation, caring, integrity and accountability.
Fundamental Components/Job Description:
• The Executive Director of Strategic Planning and Partnerships is responsible for a diverse portfolio of cross-functional solutions to address strategic business problems enabling CVS Health’s Analytics & Behavior Change organization to deliver new, innovation solutions that deliver enterprise value through multiple levers
• As an integral member of the Strategy & Operations leadership team, develops initiatives that integrate new assets and capabilities enabling business unit stakeholders to establish a competitive advantage in the marketplace and effectively serve its customers
• Evaluates new and transformative capabilities based on emerging trends in healthcare and adjacent marketplace in which CVS operates to activate and scale high potential and impact opportunities with a focus on growth – includes standing up a market, competitor intelligence and research function associated with current and future state strategic business initiatives and operations
• Develop strategic partnerships with a focus on identifying and filling white-space gaps in analytics capabilities, data, and digital health/devices that accelerate enterprise value delivery and ensures CVS remains at the forefront of innovation
• Incubate and develop business plans for commercializing new business opportunities that will result in viable, scalable market opportunities for generating top-line business value – leading end-to-end development of strategic business, financial, and operations plans
• Stand up a product strategy and management function that will ultimately deliver innovative solutions and capture net new revenue streams by integration best-in-class feature sets to create a unique value proposition
• Develop and maintain executive level communications to assist in and secure buy-in for leadership-level decision making
• Act as the subject matter expert for governance and compliance efforts with Analytics & Behavior Change by collaborating closely with information governance and legal

Required Qualifications
• 12+ years’ experience in a business function such as strategy and planning, business development, and management consulting required
• 8+ years of experience with mid-sized, cross-functional initiatives with a moderate to high degree of complexity with a focus on analytics-driven business strategies and solutions required
• 5+ years of experience with developing strategic plans, problem solving and framing, market/opportunity sizing with a strong focus on relationship management and resulted-oriented, execution focus
• 5+ years of experience with developing analysis, presentations and support material to successfully implement strategy or change initiatives.

COVID Requirements

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement
CVS Health requires certain colleagues to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including any booster shots if required), where allowable under the law, unless they are approved for a reasonable accommodation based on disability, medical condition, religious belief, or other legally recognized reasons that prevents them from being vaccinated.

You are required to have received at least one COVID-19 shot prior to your first day of employment and to provide proof of your vaccination status or apply for a reasonable accommodation within the first 10 days of your employment. Please note that in some states and roles, you may be required to provide proof of full vaccination or an approved reasonable accommodation before you can begin to actively work.

Preferred Qualifications
• The ideal candidate should be passionate about making healthcare more efficient and want to be part of a transformational change to making it more consumer friendly.
• Proven track record of process improvement

Education
• . Bachelors’ degree required. Masters degree preferred

Business Overview
Bring your heart to CVS Health
Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand – with heart at its center – our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.

Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.
We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day.
CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.