Sr Manager Enterprise Strategy

9025 CVS Shared Services Resources LLC; City of Rochester (NY); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

Retirement savings options

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Manager in the Enterprise Strategy team focused on the Aetna business. You will shape member experiences, identify opportunities, and translate insights into actionable initiatives across CVS Health.

This hybrid role requires collaborating with leaders to align strategies with enterprise capabilities. You will partner with Aetna and CVS Health teams to craft differentiated future-state experiences, assess business cases, and drive initiatives that connect

Qualifications

• 7+ years of work experience in consulting, investment banking, healthcare strategy or operations.
• Strong analytical skills with payer landscape knowledge.
• Experience building financial models and exec presentations.
• Ability to structure and solve business problems.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience developing analysis and supporting material for decisions.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy development to differentiate the Aetna member experience.
• Support cross-functional strategic projects with senior leaders.
• Conduct market insights, competitive assessments, and opportunity sizing.
• Prepare executive-ready presentations and materials.
• Drive initiatives from strategy to execution with owners across functions.
• Identify opportunities to connect enterprise capabilities for better products.

Skills

Analytical skills

Payor landscape

Financial modeling

Executive presentations

Problem solving

Communication

Travel readiness

Education

BA/BS degree required

MBA 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. Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver. Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.

Position Summary

It is an exciting time in healthcare. The industry is evolving and the opportunities to drive real change and improve the health of millions are endless. Our Enterprise Strategy team is a small, high-performing group that works closely with senior leadership to pave the way for the future of our company. In Strategy, you will work hand-in-hand with senior business leaders to identify and analyze exciting new opportunities to drive growth and differentiation in a dynamic industry. As a Senior Manager on the Enterprise Strategy team, you will help shape the strategy for our Aetna business, with a particular focus on member experience, strategic initiatives, and opportunities to leverage capabilities across CVS Health to create differentiated products and experiences. This position offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of health plan strategy, member experience, and cross-enterprise product strategy. You will partner across Aetna and CVS Health businesses to identify member needs and pain points, define differentiated future-state experiences, assess opportunities to bring together capabilities across the enterprise, and translate strategic ideas into actionable initiatives.

Responsibilities include:

• Leads the development of strategies to improve and differentiate the Aetna member experience, grounded in member needs, business priorities, and market trends
• Contributes to cross-functional strategic projects executed in partnership with senior leadership
• Leads research and analysis associated with strategic business issues, including member and market insights, competitive assessments, opportunity sizing, business cases, and feasibility analysis
• Effectively facilitates meetings and strategic workshops, including preparation and driving tangible outcomes
• Stimulates strategic thinking and helps move initiatives from strategy toward execution in partnership with business and functional owners
• Identifies opportunities to connect capabilities across the enterprise to create more integrated products and member experiences
• Develops compelling, executive-level recommendations and materials that frame decisions, trade-offs, and paths forward

You will be working in a hybrid role in one of the CVS Health offices in Hartford, CT; New York, NY; Wellesley, MA; or Woonsocket, RI.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of work experience, preferably in consulting, investment banking, healthcare strategy or operations role in an analytical environment
• Strong analytical skills and business acumen with a focus on payor landscape and trends
• Experience building and evaluating financial models and quickly developing executive level presentations and support material to successfully implement strategy
• Ability to identify, structure and solve business problems
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, written, and oral communication and presentation skills
• Demonstrated experience developing analysis, presentations and support material to successfully drive decisions and strategy implementation
• This role may require travel up to 25%

Preferred Qualifications

• Background with payer organizations and specifically value-based care
• Education BA/BS degree required
• MBA preferred

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is: $142,140.00 - $284,280.00 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.

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: 11/14/2026

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

Our Work Experience 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.