Lead Director, Strategic Marketing

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3 Locations
In-Office
100K-232K Annually
Senior level
Fitness • Healthtech • Retail • Pharmaceutical
The Role
The Lead Director, Strategic Marketing at Aetna Medicare oversees strategic creative direction, leading marketing planning and execution for brand growth and retention, aligned with business objectives.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.

Job Profile Summary
The Lead Director, Strategic Marketing on the Aetna Medicare Marketing team is responsible for setting and leading the strategic creative direction that supports long‑term membership growth and retention. This role defines the narrative, positioning, and creative strategy for Aetna Medicare, translating business priorities, customer insights, and research into clear, actionable direction that drives creative excellence and measurable performance.
This leader guides strategic creative planning across the Medicare portfolio, informing go‑to‑market strategy and ensuring consistency across campaigns. The role partners closely with CVS Health and Aetna brand teams and collaborates across product, sales, media, and activation teams to ensure Medicare marketing is fully aligned with enterprise brand standards, regulatory requirements, and business objectives.
Key Responsibilities
  • Lead Aetna Medicare brand and strategic marketing planning across product and lifecycle campaigns, ensuring clarity, consistency, and performance across initiatives.
  • Define campaign narratives, messaging frameworks, and creative approaches that strengthen brand positioning while supporting growth and retention goals.
  • Set creative strategy and messaging direction for large‑scale, high‑visibility campaigns that influence brand equity and business outcomes.
  • Translate customer insights, research findings, testing results, and performance data into actionable creative guidance for internal teams and agency partners.
  • Provide hands‑on creative direction for priority initiatives, including annual campaigns and major product or enrollment launches.
  • Establish scalable creative frameworks and standards that enable consistent, high‑quality execution across channels and teams.
  • Partner with channel, media, activation, product, and sales teams to ensure creative strategy is delivered through cohesive, effective multi‑channel execution.
  • Influence senior leaders through clear strategic recommendations, strong storytelling, and sound marketing judgment.
  • Lead complex, cross‑functional initiatives within a highly matrixed organization, integrating brand, media, product, and sales objectives.
  • Serve as a key liaison to CVS Health and Aetna brand teams to ensure alignment with enterprise brand strategy and standards.
  • Provide oversight of agency relationships and budgets, depending on portfolio assignment.
Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
  • 10 to 15 years of experience in strategic marketing, brand strategy, or integrated marketing, preferably within a B2C environment.
  • Strong knowledge of B2C marketing principles and experience developing direct‑to‑consumer marketing strategies and creative campaigns. 
  • Demonstrated experience leading marketing strategy and/or creative direction for large‑scale, multi‑channel campaigns.
  • Experience leading end‑to‑end creative production, from creative brief development through final execution.
  • Strong problem‑solving and decision‑making skills, with the ability to interpret marketing performance data and campaign analytics.
  • Proven ability to translate business objectives, customer insights, and research into clear creative and marketing strategy.
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate closely with marketing partners and lead complex initiatives within a highly matrixed organization.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience marketing Medicare products and services, particularly Medicare Advantage and Special Needs Plans (SNPs).
  • Working knowledge of CMS marketing guidelines and experience interpreting regulatory requirements for compliant marketing communications.
  • Experience leading multi‑channel marketing campaigns in a fast‑paced, highly regulated environment.
  • Experience managing creative agencies and marketing budgets.
  • Experience with B2B marketing principles. 
  • Experience developing and leveraging research, testing, and insights to inform strategy, optimization, and creative decision‑making.
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver high‑quality, compliant marketing work against demanding timelines.
  • Experience working within a large, enterprise brand or complex organizational environment.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$100,000.00 - $231,540.00


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.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 05/25/2026

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

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 10 to 15 years of experience in strategic marketing, brand strategy, or integrated marketing, preferably within a B2C environment
  • Strong knowledge of B2C marketing principles
  • Experience leading marketing strategy and creative direction for large-scale, multi-channel campaigns
  • Experience leading end-to-end creative production, from creative brief development through final execution
  • Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
  • Ability to translate business objectives, customer insights, and research into clear creative and marketing strategy
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate closely with marketing partners

CVS Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CVS Health and has not been reviewed or approved by CVS Health.

  • Healthcare Strength Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive for benefits-eligible colleagues, including medical, dental, and vision with free preventive care and access to virtual care and select no-cost MinuteClinic services. Mental health support is also highlighted with no-cost confidential counseling sessions per issue.
  • Retirement Support Retirement benefits include a 401(k) with a dollar-for-dollar match up to 5% after meeting service and hours requirements. Ownership programs are also offered through an employee stock purchase plan with a stated purchase discount.
  • Pay Growth & Progression A companywide minimum wage floor establishes a baseline that is framed as a positive starting point in some roles and markets. Unionized or high-cost areas are described as having clearer wage scales and step-ups that can materially lift pay over time.

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The Company
HQ: Woonsocket, RI
119,959 Employees
Year Founded: 1963

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.

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