Senior Manager, Process Excellence

CVS Health Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 75,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health Corporation is seeking a Senior Manager, Process Excellence to lead end-to-end transformations within the Caremark Center of Excellence. You will shape strategy, drive enterprise-wide change, and elevate team capability while coaching managers and analysts.

This role requires a thought leader with governance and sustainability in mind, operating with a high degree of autonomy. Responsibilities include leading large-scale initiatives, establishing KPI metrics, and ensuring alignment

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in process improvement, change execution and strategic support.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end, large-scale enterprise transformations.
• Design process improvement plans using DMAIC, DMADV, DFSS, LEAN.
• Master facilitator for large matrixed projects and Kaizen events.
• Establish governance, KPIs, and sustainability models.
• Drive change management including communications and training.
• Partner with executive sponsors to drive adoption.

Skills

Process improvement

Change management

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Masters Degree preferred

Tools

QuickBase

Lucid

Visio

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.

Summary The Senior Manager, Process Excellence position in Caremark’s Center of Excellence requires an ambitious, motivated, and eager individual, seeking to transform our business and be a part of a Fortune 6 company. The position is a part of our enterprise supporting a team focused on process improvement, change management and transformation in all facets of our business. As the Senior Manager, Process Excellence, you'll be responsible for leading end-to-end, large-scale enterprise-wide transformations. You will lead highly complex initiatives, shape direction, and influence senior leadership while operating with a high degree of autonomy. You will also play a critical role in elevating team capability through coaching Managers and Senior Analysts. This role requires and individual who is a thought leader and is able to establish and influence governance, KPIs and sustainability models.

Key Responsibilities

• Process Improvement Leads large-scale, cross-functional transformation initiatives and structures ambiguous problems into actionable plans.
• Drives the design of process improvement plans and is an expert in proven methods and tools such as: DMAIC, DMADV, DFSS and LEAN.
• Master facilitator for large-scale matrixed projects, Kaizen Events, Rapid Process Improvement Events, Current / Future state design and other types of events.
• Aligns initiatives to enterprise priorities.
• Establishes governance, KPIs, and sustainability models.
• Lead and perform detailed quantitative and qualitative analyses (e.g., cycle time, defect rates, rework, capacity, handoffs, etc.) using Excel, Minitab, and other tools.
• Ensure project team remains on track, follows departmental standards and provides regular updates to key stakeholders.

Change Execution

• Drives design of change management execution plans utilizing proven methods and tools such as: ADKAR, Kotter’s 8-Step Model, Lewin’s Model and others.
• Ensures change efforts and enable adoption, behavior change, and sustained outcomes across operational teams.
• Partners with executive sponsors, stakeholders and business leaders to assess change readiness, stakeholder impacts, and resistance risks.
• Drives the development and execution of change deliverables, including: communications, training materials, job aids and reinforcement plans.
• Monitors adoption of metrics and feedback loops to adjust change strategies as needed, in real-time.
• Drives business’ adoption plans and enables smooth transition of ownership.

Strategic Support

Serves as a thought leader and can influence without authority. Strategic thinker who applies solutions across the enterprise and ties them to corporate strategic objectives. Advances enterprise methodologies and standards. Scales best practices across the enterprise. Displays a strong executive presence. Expert in coaching experienced process and change practitioners. Ability to pull resources from a variety of teams and skill sets to design, build, test and deploy solutions. You will need to be a person who is a natural leader, a skilled mentor and coach and has a strong desire to grow with an evolving, high performing team.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in process improvement, change execution and strategic support.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher.

Preferred Qualifications

• PBM experience.
• Experience leading complex initiatives in matrixed environment.
• Experience presenting to executive leadership.
• Black Belt Certification and/or Change Management Certification.
• Project Management Certification.
• Experience and familiarity with QuickBase, Lucid and Visio.
• People leadership experience.

Education

• Bachelors Degree.
• Masters Degree preferred.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is: $75,400.00 - $182,549.00 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.

Application

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 10/10/2026 Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.

Our Work Experience

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.