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Position Summary:
We are seeking an Executive Director, PBM Analytics Product Management to lead and scale a high-impact analytics product portfolio. The Executive Director will support the Connected PBM Ecosystem, which is one of the top three priorities at CVS Health, with significant executive visibility and priority. This leader will operate at the intersection of business strategy, product management, and advanced analytics, partnering closely with senior executives to identify, prioritize, and deliver the highest-value opportunities.
This role requires a hands-on, execution-oriented leader who can step in on day one, quickly assess opportunities, and drive measurable business impact. The ideal candidate combines strong product management expertise with strategic problem-solving, executive presence, and the ability to influence across a complex, matrixed organization.
Key Responsibilities:
Executive Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to VP and C-suite leaders, driving alignment on strategy, priorities, and value realization.
- Demonstrate exceptional stakeholder management skills, effectively influencing across functions and levels to drive outcomes.
- Navigate complex organizational dynamics with strong executive presence, credibility, and impact.
- Orchestrate cross-functional delivery across business, product, engineering, data science, and analytics teams.
Product Strategy & Value Delivery
- Own the end-to-end analytics product strategy and roadmap for the Connected PBM Ecosystem portfolio.
- Translate business priorities into actionable product strategies focused on measurable outcomes, cost optimization, and enterprise value creation.
- Identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities by analyzing business outcomes and working backwards to determine key levers for improvement.
- Lead hypothesis-driven problem solving and rapid iteration to deliver scalable solutions.
- Ensure products are customer- and user-centric, leveraging data, insights, and feedback to continuously refine priorities.
Execution & Operating Model
- Drive disciplined execution, ensuring delivery against priorities with speed, quality, and accountability.
- Establish and optimize product operating models that enable efficient, scalable delivery.
- Balance strategic thinking with hands-on problem solving to overcome obstacles and deliver results.
- Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and outcomes-driven performance.
Team Leadership & Development
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of product managers.
- Build a strong product management culture grounded in ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Mentor talent across the organization to elevate product and analytics capabilities.
Required Qualifications:
- 15+ years of experience in product management, consulting, analytics, or related fields, with increasing leadership responsibility.
- Proven ability to operate effectively at the executive level, with strong executive presence and the ability to influence senior leaders.
- Demonstrated expertise in stakeholder management, including aligning cross-functional teams and driving enterprise-wide initiatives.
- Strong product management experience, including building and delivering software/data products in complex environments.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills with a structured, hypothesis-driven approach.
- Experience driving strategy and transformation initiatives, including identifying cost optimization opportunities and translating them into actionable product strategies.
- Ability to quickly assess business challenges and begin delivering impact immediately with minimal ramp-up time.
- Track record of orchestrating delivery across complex, matrixed organizations.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate strategy, trade-offs, and outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Background in management consulting (highly preferred), with experience solving complex business problems and driving transformation.
- Experience working in (or with) a large technology company (e.g., Big Tech), with exposure to scaled product, platform, or data ecosystems.
- Experience in healthcare, PBM, or similarly complex, regulated industries.
- Deep experience in analytics- and data-driven product environments.
- Proven ability to influence without authority and drive change across large organizations.
- Strong business acumen with experience connecting product investments to measurable financial outcomes, including cost reduction.
- Demonstrated cultural leadership and ability to model desired behaviors, including how they “show up” to drive engagement and alignment.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Degree in computer science, statistics, mathematics or related fields preferred
- MBA or advanced degree preferred
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$175,100.00 - $334,750.00
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.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
Skills Required
- 15+ years of experience in product management, consulting, analytics, or related fields
- Proven ability to operate effectively at the executive level with strong executive presence
- Strong product management experience including building and delivering software/data products
- Exceptional problem-solving skills with a structured, hypothesis-driven approach
- Ability to quickly assess business challenges and begin delivering impact immediately
- Bachelor's degree required
What We Do
CVS Health is the leading health solutions company that delivers care in ways no one else can. We reach people in more ways and improve the health of communities across America through our local presence, digital channels and our nearly 300,000 dedicated colleagues – including more than 40,000 physicians, pharmacists, nurses and nurse practitioners. Wherever and whenever people need us, we help them with their health – whether that’s managing chronic diseases, staying compliant with their medications, or accessing affordable health and wellness services in the most convenient ways. We help people navigate the health care system – and their personal health care – by improving access, lowering costs and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.
