Executive Director, Medicare Strategy & Value Creation

CVS Health; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 132,000 - 303,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking an Executive Director, Medicare Strategy, Finance & Value Creation to elevate strategic decision-making and investment discipline across the Medicare business. You will partner with senior leaders to build a new capability focused on opportunities, investments, and value realization.

This role blends financial rigor with strategic influence, guiding scenario planning, governance, and talent leadership to realize measurable value for patients, families, and communities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of strategic finance, corporate strategy, management consulting, corporate development, business transformation, healthcare strategy, or a related field.
• Experience within healthcare, health insurance, managed care, Medicare, or a related industry.
• Proven ability to influence executive decision-making through strategic analysis and business insight.
• Strong financial modeling, business case development, scenario planning, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives involving senior stakeholders.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and relationship-management skills.
• Proven success building and leading high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on high-impact strategic, financial, and operational decisions.
• Lead analyses of growth opportunities, investments, partnerships, business model changes, and other enterprise priorities.
• Develop clear, decision-ready recommendations that balance financial performance, strategic objectives, operational feasibility, and risk.
• Translate complex data and analyses into concise executive communications and presentations.
• Identify, assess, and prioritize opportunities to improve business performance and enterprise value.
• Establish frameworks for business case development, investment evaluation, and portfolio prioritization.
• Support resource allocation decisions by evaluating competing investments and strategic alternatives.
• Partner with business leaders to define expected outcomes, success measures, and value realization plans.
• Monitor performance against approved business cases and strategic objectives.
• Support development of Medicare’s long-term strategy and value creation agenda.
• Lead scenario planning related to market developments, regulatory changes, competitive dynamics, and emerging opportunities.
• Identify risks and opportunities that may impact future business performance.
• Provide forward-looking insights that strengthen organizational preparedness and decision confidence.
• Partner with the Vice President, CFO Medicare to establish and scale the Strategy, Finance & Value Creation organization.
• Help define the team’s operating model, governance processes, prioritization framework, and measures of success.
• Recruit, develop, and retain high-performing talent.
• Foster a culture of analytical rigor, intellectual curiosity, collaboration, and accountability.
• Build strong relationships across Finance, Operations, Product, Network, Clinical, Technology, and Corporate Strategy.

Skills

Strategic finance

Corporate strategy

Management consulting

Corporate development

Business transformation

Healthcare strategy

Executive communication

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

MBA, MHA, MPH, CPA, CFA or other advanced degree

Job description

CVS Health is seeking an Executive Director, Medicare Strategy, Finance & Value Creation to elevate strategic decision-making and investment discipline across the Medicare business. You will partner with senior leaders to build a new capability focused on opportunities, investments, and value realization.

This role blends financial rigor with strategic influence, guiding scenario planning, governance, and talent leadership to realize measurable value for patients, families, and communities.