Strategy, Product & Portfolio Operations Lead – Government Consumer Analytics

CVS Health; New York (NY); On-site; USD 142,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Strategy, Product & Portfolio Operations Lead to join their Government Consumer Analytics team. This role offers a unique opportunity to drive strategic initiatives and product management in a rapidly growing organization. You'll collaborate with diverse stakeholders, lead special projects, and contribute to a culture of innovation and excellence. Ideal candidates will possess strong analytical skills, a proactive mindset, and a passion for healthcare and technology. Join a team dedicated to transforming health care and making a meaningful impact on millions of lives.

Benefits

401(k) plan with matching contributions

Employee stock purchase plan

No-cost wellness screenings

Tobacco cessation programs

Weight management programs

Confidential counseling

Financial coaching

Flexible work schedules

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Qualifications

• 3+ years' experience at a top-tier management consulting firm or as a Chief of Staff.
• 2+ years' experience with financial management including budgeting & ROI calculations.

Responsibilities

• Design and run portfolio-level impact and financial linkage processes.
• Lead strategic design of tools to increase transparency with business leaders.

Skills

Critical reasoning

Proactivity

Portfolio management

Detail orientation

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or business administration

MBA

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

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
We are looking for a Strategy, Product & Portfolio Operations Lead to join our Government Consumer Analytics team at CVS Health. This person will partner closely with the AVP of Government Consumer Analytics to drive strategic, product, operational, and fiscal initiatives across an organization that has scaled rapidly over the last three years. This role is a high-level individual contributor role with runway to evolve into a managerial role as the business expands.

Position Responsibilities:

Strategy & Portfolio Operations (50%)

• Design and run simple, transparent portfolio-level impact and financial linkage processes to track business impact and ROI, unified leading indicators, Monthly Operating Review, and translate to financials and scenario modeling.
• Lead strategic design of tools to increase transparency with business leaders, including impact and initiative front-end dashboard portfolio strategy, partner with technical team doing execution, advise of UI, and drive adoption.
• Unify strategy synthesis and lead special projects across the organization including leading bi-annual goal setting, executive-level presentations and strategic synthesis across multiple analytic teams, and identifying opportunity areas for growth.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with diverse stakeholders such as data scientists, senior management, and marketing leads to effectively build targeted presentations and ensure alignment and support for strategic initiatives.

Product Management & Innovation - Analytics (30%)

• Strategic leader and hands-on contributor, jumpstarting emerging analytic products, including product definition and strategic positioning, economic modeling, socialization, and funding models.
• Explore innovative partnerships and new engagement models, evaluating industry trends, synthesize perspective for what to pursue, buy vs. build, and business case development.
• Build best practices for new product proposals and financial linkage.

Team Development and Mentoring (10%)

• As a member of the leadership team, contribute to department operations, strategy and development-focused culture.
• Conduct workshops and do individual coaching for top-down strategic thinking and problem framing skills, including connecting analytic insights to business value.

Financial / Budget Management (10%)

• Expert ability using Excel to create and run impact reports by leveraging data to track key performance indicators (KPIs), comparing different scenarios, and presenting findings in a clear and concise manner.
• Use Excel to track project and employee costs/financials including detailed tracking of expenses, project budgets, and personnel costs, facilitating budget variances, trend analysis, and financial insights.
• Build impact reports with PowerPoint, highlighting key data, analysis, and recommendations.
• Participate in budget development, implementation, and monitoring, ensuring alignment with financial policies, effective resource allocation and analyzing performance metrics while identifying cost-saving opportunities.

Required Skills:

• Critical reasoning – your primary responsibilities require you to operate at the intersection of strategy, operations, and finance within a analytic insights, engagement, and product team. The team will lean on you to get your first principles take across opportunity areas.
• Proactivity – there is no set “playbook” for this job. An ideal profile for this is someone who takes the initiative to address priorities within the organization, likes the autonomy to act on those priorities, and builds the “playbook”.
• Portfolio management – you will have exposure across multiple different priorities and will be responsible for keeping the team’s portfolio of activities organized and on track.
• Detail orientation – we are a complex and data-backed organization. The details matter to us and our partners.
• Effective communication – the role requires succinct and thoughtful written and verbal communication across the organization.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years' experience at a top-tier management consulting firm or as a Chief of Staff for an early/mid stage start-up

• 2+ years' experience with PowerPoint, Excel, and other productivity software

• 2+ years' experience building executive level deliverables (e.g., story-lining a presentation)

• 2+ years experience with financial / fiscal management including budgeting & ROI calculations

• 2+ years' experience working thru ambiguity, influencing and driving buy-in for strategic direction with leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ year experience mentoring a team and driving project deliverables

• Ability to handle and prioritize multiple priorities

• Passion for intersection between healthcare, technology, and analytics

Education

• Bachelor's degree required, with a preference in a quantitative field or business administration
• MBA is highly desirable

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.

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, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 05/31/2025

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