Sr Manager, Strategic Planning – Medicare

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Job Purpose and Summary:

This is a remote position and may sit anywhere within the U.S.

The Sr. Manager works with the VP, CMO Aetna Medicare and the AVP, Deputy CMO, Medicare, Lead Director of Strategic Planning and business leads across the enterprise to achieve organizational goals for the Medicare Medical Ops business unit to implement best in class policies, procedures, and plans for the area.

Acts independently to address issues, guide direction, and provide analysis for planning initiatives. This role will include evaluation of business challenges, identifying and seizing new opportunities, prioritizing critical issues, securing executive level buy-in, implementing change, and generating demonstrable impact. In addition, Sr. Manager will facilitate efforts to develop clinical strategies and implement new innovation projects.

Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities:

The Sr. Manager works across the Aetna and CVS enterprise in a highly collaborative partnership with multiple business units to drive better clinical outcomes and cost-savings initiatives. The Sr. Manager is responsible for carrying out workstreams aimed at identifying opportunities, driving execution and monitoring performance to achieve desired population health outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Manage strategic projects and programs workstreams, such as, Scorable Action Items, ensuring the end state of the project meets business objectives, agreed upon metrics and outlines deliverables with due dates.

• Work with Lead Director of Strategic Planning to engage with vendor management and oversight to identify improvement opportunities.

• Develop analyses, presentations and other reporting materials to successfully implement change initiatives and socialize work to stakeholders. Position requires proficiency with Microsoft Office suite e.g., (PowerPoint and Excel).

• Navigate a highly matrixed, collaborative work environment to meet goals. Skilled at developing positive interpersonal relationships with stakeholders across the enterprise to facilitate effective collaboration.

• Proactively identify and take action to solve management and business problems.

• Ensure consistent, efficient, and cost-effective processes, procedures, and appropriate accountability.

Required Qualifications:

• 1 years of management consulting experience, ideally within the health care sector.

• 2 years experience in care model design and implementation, population health program design and implementation and/or clinical product development.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters in related field (MBA, MPP, MPH, MPA, MHA, MSHP, etc.) preferred but not required.

• 2 years work experience in managed care preferred but not required (preferably for Medicare and/or dual-eligible beneficiaries).

• 2 years work experience in developing and maintain complex queries with data extraction, manipulation, and analysis of large datasets to support insight generation and hypothesis testing.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$67,900.00 – $199,144.80

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.

In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities. The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits. Eligible employees may enroll in the Company’s 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees. The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners. As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off (“PTO”) or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies.

For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit Benefits | CVS Health (https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits)

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 11/30/2024

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.

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