Lead Director, Pharmacy Clinical Product Development

CVS Health; Buffalo Grove (IL); On-site; USD 144,000 - 289,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director of Pharmacy Clinical Product Development to provide strategic leadership and manage application engineering functions. The role focuses on innovation in healthcare technology, overseeing teams, and driving successful project delivery to align with business goals.

Benefits

401(k) plan with matching contributions

Employee stock purchase plan

Wellness screenings and counseling programs

Flexible work schedules

Tuition assistance

Qualifications

• 10+ years work experience in relevant field.
• 7+ years of management experience leading application development teams.
• Experience with product development and client implementations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage application development projects, ensuring delivery within scope, budget, and timeline.
• Collaborate with leadership to define strategy and roadmap.
• Drive innovation, leveraging AI for clinical processes.

Skills

Application development

Team leadership

Product development

Agile methodologies

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Angular

.Net

Job description

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Position Summary

The Lead Director of Pharmacy Clinical Product Development provides strategic leadership and oversees the application engineering function by managing a team of engineers, defining technical strategies and roadmaps, ensuring successful project delivery, and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration. Owns and advances the pharmacy prior authorization product with the goal of transforming the healthcare industry by reducing friction for patients and providers while managing utilization. Coordinates with stakeholders, allocates resources, drives technical excellence, and creates alignment between business goals and technical solutions to ensure continuous improvement of application engineering capabilities within the organization.

What you will do

• Oversees and manages application development projects and programs, ensuring successful delivery within scope, budget, and timeline to meet business goals. Focus on business outcomes and foster a consultative, problem-solving mindset in the definition of products and solutions.

• Collaborates with executive leadership to define the strategy and roadmap aligned with the organization's goals.

• Drives innovation initiatives, promoting a culture of creativity, experimentation, and learning. This includes leveraging Artificial Intelligence in the automation and augmentation of clinical processes; leveraging FHIR/HL7 services to drive interoperability and electronic health record integration; and increase product development velocity using AI.

• Provides leadership and expertise in defining the technical architecture and design principles for the clinical product solutions.

• Evaluates the relevance and potential impact of new technologies on the organization's prior authorization product capabilities.

• Establishes and maintains quality assurance processes, standards, and best practices within application development.

• Advances, develops and ensures adherence to coding practices, software development methodologies, and testing strategies to deliver high-quality solutions.

• Contributes to long-term planning, technology adoption strategies, and innovation initiatives to drive platform modernization and transformation.

• Drives organization growth and capability maturity. Leads a team of engineers and technical professionals, and provides guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure their success and professional growth.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years work experience

• 7+ years of people management experience, leading teams in application development.

• 5+ years of experience leading large programs like system migration, platform consolidation, new product development and client implementations.

• 5+ years of experience in product development, i.e., product backlog management, sprint planning, agile methodologies.

• Technology product vendor management experience, i.e., relationship management, vendor selection.

• End-to-end application ownership experience, i.e., development, production support, client/customer relationship management, infrastructure and capacity planning.

Preferred Qualifications

• Agile Product Management Certification

• Domain experience in Pharmacy Benefit Management, Health Insurance, Clinical Utilization Management Products or Prior Authorization.

• Experience in leading application development for Angular and .Net technologies

Education

• Bachelor's degree preferred/specialized training/relevant professional qualification.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$144,200.00 - $288,400.00

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.

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an 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.

For more information, visithttps://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 07/07/2025

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