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Position Summary
The Senior Manager, Strategic Planning serves as a strategic operator and thought partner to Retail Pharmacy leadership, driving enterprise alignment, shaping priorities, and leading high-impact cross-functional initiatives.
This role operates with significant autonomy to translate strategy into action, influence senior leaders, and ensure the organization is prioritized, resourced, and executing against its most critical objectives. The individual will act as a connector across teams, owning key planning processes, executive communications, and strategic initiatives from concept through execution.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Communications
- Own executive-level communications and narratives that shape decisions and align the organization
- Translate complex strategy and performance into clear, actionable insights for leadership
Executive Partnership
- Serve as a trusted strategic partner to senior leadership, shaping priorities, decisions, and operating rhythm
- Lead key leadership forums by defining agendas, framing decisions, and ensuring follow-through
- Maintain a clear, ongoing view of business performance, priorities, and emerging issues
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Drive alignment and outcomes across a highly matrixed organization, influencing without direct authority
- Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept through execution
- Strengthen coordination across teams to ensure priorities are connected, resourced, and delivered
Strategic Leadership & Planning
- Own and drive strategic planning across the organization, including annual and multi-year priorities, tradeoffs, and alignment
- Translate enterprise strategy into clear direction and ensure execution against the highest-impact opportunities
- Identify risks, gaps, and opportunities, and drive actions with leadership to address them
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in strategy, consulting, business operations, or related fields
- Demonstrated experience owning and leading cross-functional initiatives and strategic workstreams
- Strong executive presence with experience advising and influencing senior leaders
- Proven ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments and drive outcomes
- Exceptional communication skills, with experience developing executive-level materials
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to translate insights into action
- Experience working in a highly matrixed organization and driving alignment across functions
Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$82,940.00 - $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, consulting, business operations, or related fields
- Demonstrated experience owning and leading cross-functional initiatives and strategic workstreams
- Strong executive presence with experience advising and influencing senior leaders
- Proven ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments and drive outcomes
- Exceptional communication skills, with experience developing executive-level materials
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to translate insights into action
- Experience working in a highly matrixed organization and driving alignment across functions
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
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.
