Senior Manager, Payer Deal Intelligence & Analytics Insights

CVS Health; Rhode Island; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Manager, Payer Deal Intelligence & Analytics to lead the analytical strategy and deal evaluation across PBM negotiations and reimbursement performance.

You will own financial models and pre-negotiation intelligence packages, translating market dynamics into actionable recommendations for senior leadership and negotiators. This is an individual contributor role with potential growth into deal ownership within Payer Relations.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in pharmacy reimbursement, pharmacy benefit management, managed care, or healthcare financial analysis.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency, including scenario construction and sensitivity analysis.
• Ability to translate quantitative analysis into a concise written recommendation suitable for VP-level audiences.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple concurrent analytical deliverables against deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Lead analytical strategy, market intelligence and deal evaluation for CVS Pharmacy negotiations.
• Build and defend multi-year financial models to inform negotiation strategy and reimbursement goals.

Skills

Financial modeling

Quantitative analysis

Excel proficiency

Written recommendations

Independent work

Tools

Microsoft Excel

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 Senior Manager, Payer Deal Intelligence & Analytics is responsible for leading the analytical strategy, market intelligence, and decision support framework that informs complex deal evaluation, PBM negotiation strategy, and pharmacy reimbursement performance. This role serves as a strategic partner across the organization, translating business priorities, market dynamics, and analytical findings into actionable recommendations that improve deal outcomes and advance pharmacy reimbursement goals. This role owns the financial models and pre-negotiation intelligence packages that determine how CVS Pharmacy positions itself across a portfolio of pharmacy benefit managers, health plans, third party discount providers and state Medicaid plans. The role builds a multi-year deal strategy that reflects counterparty economics and produces the scenario analysis that establishes where CVS can trade and where it must hold. Work product from this position is used directly in live negotiations and in recurring cross-functional forums, including the weekly Finance Call and the Payer Operating Strategy meeting. The role is an individual contributor position with direct exposure to senior decision-making and is deliberately structured as a development seat for an analytical professional who intends to grow into deal ownership and portfolio leadership within Payer Relations. Success is measured by whether CVS enters every material negotiation with a quantified position and a defined walk-away point rather than a reactive one.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in pharmacy reimbursement, pharmacy benefit management, managed care, or healthcare financial analysis
• Demonstrated ability to build, document and defend multi-year financial models constructed from incomplete or contested inputs
• Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency, including scenario construction and sensitivity analysis
• Ability to translate quantitative analysis into a concise written recommendation suitable for Vice President and above audiences
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple concurrent analytical deliverables against externally driven negotiation deadlines
• Travel up to 10% of the time

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in pharmacy reimbursement, pharmacy benefit management, managed care, or healthcare financial analysis
• Demonstrated ability to build, document and defend multi-year financial models constructed from incomplete or contested inputs