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Senior Manager, New Business Development & Strategic Innovation
The ideal candidate is an entrepreneurial self-starter who combines exceptional analytical capabilities with a strong bias toward action. They are highly organized, energized by solving difficult business problems, comfortable operating independently, and capable of balancing strategic thinking with executional excellence. This individual will demonstrate sound business judgment, strong executive presence, and the ability to build alignment across stakeholders while maintaining momentum across multiple priorities.
Position Summary
The Senior Manager, New Business Development & Strategic Innovation is a critical member of the Life Sciences Innovation and Trade Strategy team, responsible for identifying, evaluating, and advancing new growth opportunities that leverage CVS Health's unique assets, capabilities, and enterprise scale.
This highly visible role partners closely with the Lead Director to assess emerging market trends, evaluate strategic opportunities, develop business cases, and support the incubation and launch of innovative partnerships, products, services, and business models. The Senior Manager will work across a broad range of healthcare and life sciences topics, collaborating with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to translate insights and opportunities into actionable growth strategies.
To support enterprise growth objectives, the team continuously monitors healthcare trends, evaluates where CVS Health is uniquely positioned to win, develops business cases for priority opportunities, and advances high-impact initiatives from concept through execution. Success in this role requires strong strategic thinking, business and financial acumen, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to drive progress in complex and ambiguous environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify, evaluate, and develop new business opportunities that support CVS Health's long-term growth strategy.
- Monitor healthcare, life sciences, and adjacent market trends to identify emerging opportunities, risks, and strategic implications.
- Develop strategic recommendations, financial analyses, business cases, and executive-level presentations that inform enterprise decision-making.
- Partner with internal business leaders and cross-functional teams to evaluate, design, and advance innovative growth initiatives.
- Support the incubation, piloting, and launch of new products, services, partnerships, and business models.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the enterprise and effectively influence without direct authority.
- Collaborate with external organizations and strategic partners to evaluate partnership opportunities and deliver business value.
- Drive multiple complex workstreams simultaneously, maintaining high standards for quality, organization, and execution.
- Translate complex and often ambiguous business challenges into structured analyses, actionable insights, and practical recommendations.
- Contribute to a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and entrepreneurial thinking across the organization.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in strategy, business development, corporate development, innovation, consulting, product strategy, or related functions within healthcare, life sciences, health technology, managed care, or other complex regulated industries.
- Demonstrated experience developing analyses, business cases, strategic recommendations, and executive-level presentations that drive decision-making.
- Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to evaluate market opportunities, competitive dynamics, and potential investments.
- Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders and driving progress across matrixed organizations.
- Exceptional organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to maintain execution discipline across multiple workstreams.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, written, verbal, and presentation skills.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a high degree of ownership, initiative, and accountability.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and translate uncertainty into action.
- Intellectual curiosity, learning agility, and a passion for identifying new opportunities and solving complex business challenges.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience identifying, evaluating, incubating, or launching new products, services, partnerships, or business models.
- Experience in healthcare, life sciences, managed care, digital health, provider services, consumer health, pharmaceutical services, or adjacent sectors.
- Management consulting, corporate strategy, venture investing, corporate innovation, or business development experience.
- Demonstrated success building strong relationships with senior leaders, cross-functional partners, and external stakeholders.
- Experience bringing innovative or non-traditional ideas to leadership and successfully driving organizational buy-in.
- Experience evaluating partnerships, growth opportunities, strategic investments, or commercialization initiatives.
Education
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required. MBA or other relevant advanced degree preferred
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$67,900.00 - $182,549.00
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 strategy, business development, corporate development, innovation, consulting, product strategy, or related functions within healthcare, life sciences, health technology, managed care, or other complex regulated industries
- Experience developing analyses, business cases, strategic recommendations, and executive-level presentations
- Strong business and financial acumen, including evaluating market opportunities, competitive dynamics, and potential investments
- Ability to manage multiple complex projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders and driving progress across matrixed organizations
- Exceptional organizational, analytical, problem-solving, written, verbal, and presentation skills
- Entrepreneurial mindset with ownership, initiative, and accountability
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and translate uncertainty into action
- Intellectual curiosity, learning agility, and passion for identifying opportunities and solving complex business challenges
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
- Experience identifying, evaluating, incubating, or launching new products, services, partnerships, or business models
- Experience in healthcare, life sciences, managed care, digital health, provider services, consumer health, pharmaceutical services, or adjacent sectors
- Management consulting, corporate strategy, venture investing, corporate innovation, or business development experience
- Experience building relationships with senior leaders, cross-functional partners, and external stakeholders
- Experience bringing innovative ideas to leadership and driving organizational buy-in
- Experience evaluating partnerships, growth opportunities, strategic investments, or commercialization initiatives
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- MBA or other relevant 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.
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.
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