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Position Summary
The Senior Manager, Market Intelligence will lead strategic workstreams end-to-end, directing team analysis and shaping executive-ready recommendations on the enterprise's most important growth and corporate development questions. Partnering closely with the Enterprise Strategy team, this role drives market research, competitive analysis, and project management to identify growth opportunities, assess markets, and support M&A and partnership evaluation. The Senior Manager will leverage AI-enabled research and market intelligence tools to accelerate insight generation and inform enterprise decision-making, while coaching junior colleagues and building alignment across senior stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead one or more Market Intelligence workstreams by defining scope, structuring plans, and adjusting course as priorities evolve.
- Analyze market trends, competitive dynamics, macroeconomic factors, and growth opportunities to shape strategic recommendations.
- Direct hypothesis-driven analysis, ensuring insights are accurate, timely, and decision-ready.
- Synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights into clear points of view by challenging assumptions, reconciling differing perspectives, and connecting findings to broader strategic implications.
- Craft executive-ready narratives, business cases, and recommendations from complex analysis.
- Develop recurring competitive intelligence and rapid-response analyses for senior leaders, distilling complex market and technology developments into concise insights, presentations, and market landscapes.
- Build stakeholder relationships and facilitate discussions that drive alignment.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in market/competitive intelligence, research operations, enterprise or corporate strategy, consulting, or a related strategy/insights function.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex analytical workstreams from scoping through recommendation.
- Strong market research expertise across primary and secondary methodologies.
- Advanced Excel skills, including modeling, scenario analysis, and data interpretation.
- Working knowledge of macroeconomic trends and their business implications.
- Proven project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong executive communication skills, including building presentations and business cases for senior audiences.
- Familiarity with AI tools for research and with market intelligence platforms (e.g., AlphaSense, CB Insights, FactSet).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in healthcare, pharmacy, insurance, retail health, or life sciences.
- Management consulting or corporate strategy experience.
- Knowledge of AI or advanced analytics to accelerate research.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, or related field.
- Master's degree (MBA, MPH, MHA, Economics, or related discipline). An advanced degree may reduce experience needed.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$90,480.00 - $199,144.00
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
- 7+ years of experience in market or competitive intelligence, research operations, enterprise or corporate strategy, consulting, or a related strategy or insights function
- Experience leading complex analytical workstreams from scoping through recommendation
- Strong market research expertise across primary and secondary methodologies
- Advanced Excel skills, including modeling, scenario analysis, and data interpretation
- Working knowledge of macroeconomic trends and their business implications
- Project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Strong executive communication skills, including presentations and business cases for senior audiences
- Familiarity with AI research tools and market intelligence platforms such as AlphaSense, CB Insights, or FactSet
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, or a related field
- Master's degree such as an MBA, MPH, MHA, Economics, or related discipline
- Experience in healthcare, pharmacy, insurance, retail health, or life sciences
- Management consulting or corporate strategy experience
- Knowledge of AI or advanced analytics to accelerate research
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.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, and vision with HSA-eligible options, free preventive care, virtual care, and access to MinuteClinic services. Mental-health resources such as counseling support are emphasized, and coverage is often considered solid for full-time colleagues.
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Retirement Support — A dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 5% after one year and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan are consistently highlighted in Total Rewards materials. Feedback suggests retirement programs are a meaningful strength within the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing offerings include up to 20 no-cost counseling sessions per issue, backup care, tuition assistance, and substantial in-store discounts, alongside broader wellness tools. These everyday perks expand value beyond base pay and can be especially meaningful for full-time schedules.
CVS Health Insights
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.
