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Position Summary:The Senior Manager, Finance Insights & Decision Support is a founding leadership role responsible for establishing and growing Finance Intelligence's Finance Insights & Decision Support capability. This role partners directly with Pharmacy Services (PS) Finance stakeholders to identify emerging risks, opportunities, trends, and business questions that are not fully addressed through existing reporting and analytics. Through analytical investigation, business partnership, and decision-support practices, this leader helps stakeholders better understand what matters, why it matters, and what actions should be considered. While initially operating as a hands-on individual contributor, this role is expected to define the methodology, operating model, and future direction of the function, including helping shape its long-term growth and team structure.
Job Responsibilities
- Establish and evolve the Finance Insights & Decision Support methodology, engagement model, and operating standards.
- Partner directly with finance and business stakeholders to identify business challenges, decision points, information gaps, risks, and opportunities.
- Lead structured investigations into ambiguous questions, unexpected performance, emerging trends, and other business signals not fully addressed through established reporting
- Translate analytical findings into actionable insights, executive-ready materials, and clear recommendations that communicate business implications and support informed decision-making
- Apply analytical, statistical, forecasting, AI-enabled, machine learning, and decision-science techniques when appropriate to address business problems.
- Determine the most appropriate analytical approach based on business impact rather than methodological complexity.
- Identify opportunities to operationalize proven insights into recurring reporting, monitoring, metrics, or analytical solutions.
- Define the long-term vision, talent strategy, capability roadmap, and future organizational structure of the Finance Insights & Decision Support function.
- Mentor others and help promote analytical and decision-support best practices across Finance Intelligence.
Required Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience in analytics, finance, business intelligence, strategy, consulting, decision support, data science, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience applying analytical techniques such as exploratory analysis, trend analysis, forecasting, hypothesis testing, and structured problem solving to business challenges.
- 2+ years of experience leveraging AI-enabled tools, machine learning, advanced analytics, or modern analytical technologies to improve business understanding and support decision-making.
- 3+ years of leadership experience building, leading, scaling, or helping establish teams, capabilities, functions, or major initiatives.
- Ability to travel up to 10% (including by plane)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience building or scaling an analytics, insights, strategy, or decision-support function.
- Finance, FP&A, healthcare, PBM, or other complex business-domain experience.
- Experience applying predictive analytics, machine learning, AI, or advanced analytical techniques to business challenges.
- Consulting, strategy, transformation, or business advisory experience.
- Experience presenting findings and recommendations to senior leaders and executive stakeholders.
- Experience operationalizing exploratory insights into recurring business processes, analytical solutions, or reporting capabilities.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving business, analytics, and technology teams.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Analytics or related fields; equivalent years of work experience may substitute.
- Advanced degree preferred.
- High School Diploma/GED required.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$130,295.00 - $260,590.00
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 analytics, finance, business intelligence, strategy, consulting, decision support, data science, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience applying exploratory analysis, trend analysis, forecasting, hypothesis testing, and structured problem-solving techniques
- 2+ years of experience leveraging AI-enabled tools, machine learning, advanced analytics, or modern analytical technologies
- 3+ years of leadership experience building, leading, scaling, or establishing teams, capabilities, functions, or major initiatives
- Ability to travel up to 10%, including by plane
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Analytics, or a related field; equivalent work experience may substitute
- High school diploma or GED
- Experience building or scaling an analytics, insights, strategy, or decision-support function
- Finance, FP&A, healthcare, PBM, or other complex business-domain experience
- Experience applying predictive analytics, machine learning, AI, or advanced analytical techniques to business challenges
- Consulting, strategy, transformation, or business advisory experience
- Experience presenting findings and recommendations to senior leaders and executive stakeholders
- Experience operationalizing exploratory insights into recurring business processes, analytical solutions, or reporting capabilities
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving business, analytics, and technology teams
- Advanced degree
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.
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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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