Lead Director, Strategy & Innovation

CVS Health; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 231,540; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Equity awards

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

CVS Health's Signify Health Strategy & Innovation team is shaping the company's long-term strategy, discovering opportunities to accelerate growth, and testing net new offerings or capabilities. The team partners with ELT to evaluate challenges, facilitate decisions, and execute early-stage proofs of concept.

Role requires extensive strategy experience, healthcare domain knowledge, and strong financial modeling skills, with up to 20% travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA/MPH/MHA preferred.
• Experience in management consulting or corporate strategy desirable.
• Healthcare industry knowledge, Medicare/Medicaid understanding preferred.

Responsibilities

• Act as the market intelligence lead translating health trends into opportunities.
• Lead strategic evaluation and piloting of future products using lean startup methods.
• Conduct TAM/SAM/SOM sizing and competitive benchmarking for ROI.
• Evaluate strategic partnerships and drive buy/build/partner decisions.
• Align net-new concepts with CVS Health long-range objectives.
• Form cross-functional, agile teams to test hypotheses and drive decisions.
• Translate data into clear executive-level stories for ELT.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Executive presence

Financial modeling

Healthcare industry experience

Market sizing

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA/MPH/MHA preferred

Job description

We're building a world of health around every individual - shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you'll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger - helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

Position Summary

The Signify Health Strategy & Innovation team is responsible for shaping the company's long-term strategy, discovering opportunities to accelerate growth, and identifying and testing net new offerings or capabilities. The team serves in an advisory capacity to Signify's Executive Leadership Team (ELT) - partnering closely with leaders to evaluate challenges and opportunities, facilitate decision-making, and execute early-stage proofs of concept.

Position Responsibilities

Growth Opportunity Ideation and Vetting

• Market Intelligence: Act as the 'tip of the spear' for market intelligence, translating evolving healthcare landscape trends and policy developments into business implications and growth opportunities
• Ideation and Market Testing: Lead the strategic evaluation and piloting of next-generation products and capabilities, utilizing lean startup approaches to validate solutions for market readiness and revenue growth.
• Market Sizing and Commercial Modeling : Conduct rigorous market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM), competitive benchmarking, and commercial modeling to determine the long-term financial viability and ROI of new strategic plays.
• Partnerships Evaluation: Play a lead role in evaluating strategic partnerships; drive comprehensive capability assessments, build/buy/partner decisions, and contracting
• Strategic Roadmap Alignment: Ensure net-new product concepts and growth initiatives seamlessly integrate into Signify Health's corporate planning cycles and CVS Health long-range strategic objectives

Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Cross-Functional Mobilization: Form and lead agile, matrixed working groups across Product, Clinical, Operations, and Finance to rapidly pressure-test hypotheses and drive initiatives from initial concept to executive sign-off
• Data-Driven Storytelling: Turn complex financial outputs, market data, and strategic hypotheses into clean, persuasive presentations and narratives for senior leadership.
• Executive Influence: Steer highly effective executive meetings, adapting in real time to drive decisions and positioning oneself as a trusted advisor to Signify's ELT and cross-CVS Health enterprise leadership.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ Years of Experience in a dynamic, fast-moving profession such as management consulting or corporate strategy
• 5+ years of Healthcare Industry Experience: Porvider sector experience, knowledge of Medicare/Medicaid populations and regulatory environment
• Financial Modeling Experience: Comfort with market sizing and commercial modeling to determine ROI and long-term viability
• Strategic & Analytical Intuition: Highly strategic thinker who is comfortable with ambiguity, simplifying complex problems, and backing up strategic hypotheses with data.
• Executive Presence: Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including a proven track record of delivering structured presentations to ELT-level audiences and driving decisions.
• Ability to Travel up to 20% (otherwise remote)

Preferred Qualifications

• Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of additional relevant healthcare domains (home health, diagnostics and preventive services, pharma, population health)
• Location: Chicago or New York City is preferred, but not required

Education

• Bachelor's degree required
• Advanced degree is highly preferred (MBA, MPH, or MHA)

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$100,000.00 - $231,540.00

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 offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 08/31/2026

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