Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CVS Pharmacy, Inc. (CVS Health) is hiring a Senior Manager to lead analytical strategy, market intelligence, and decision support for deal evaluation, PBM negotiations, and pharmacy reimbursement performance. The role develops financial models, pre-negotiation intelligence, and multi-year deal strategies, translating findings into recommendations used in negotiations and cross-functional decision-making.
Responsibilities
- The Senior Manager, Payer Deal Intelligence & Analytics is responsible for leading the analytical strategy, market intelligence, and decision support framework that informs complex deal evaluation, PBM negotiation strategy, and pharmacy reimbursement performance
- This role serves as a strategic partner across the organization, translating business priorities, market dynamics, and analytical findings into actionable recommendations that improve deal outcomes and advance pharmacy reimbursement goals
- This role owns the financial models and pre-negotiation intelligence packages that determine how CVS Pharmacy positions itself across a portfolio of pharmacy benefit managers, health plans, third party discount providers and state Medicaid plans
- The role builds a multi-year deal strategy that reflects counterparty economics and produces the scenario analysis that establishes where CVS can trade and where it must hold
- Work product from this position is used directly in live negotiations and in recurring cross-functional forums, including the weekly Finance Call and the Payer Operating Strategy meeting
- The role is an individual contributor position with direct exposure to senior decision-making and is deliberately structured as a development seat for an analytical professional who intends to grow into deal ownership and portfolio leadership within Payer Relations
- Success is measured by whether CVS enters every material negotiation with a quantified position and a defined walk-away point rather than a reactive one
Skills
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in pharmacy reimbursement, pharmacy benefit management, managed care, or healthcare financial analysis
- Demonstrated ability to build, document and defend multi-year financial models constructed from incomplete or contested inputs
- Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency, including scenario construction and sensitivity analysis
- Ability to translate quantitative analysis into a concise written recommendation suitable for Vice President and above audiences
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple concurrent analytical deliverables against externally driven negotiation deadlines
- Bachelors degree required
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in pharmacy reimbursement, pharmacy benefit management, managed care, or healthcare financial analysis
- Demonstrated ability to build, document and defend multi-year financial models constructed from incomplete or contested inputs
- Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency, including scenario construction and sensitivity analysis
- Ability to translate quantitative analysis into a concise written recommendation suitable for Vice President and above audiences
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple concurrent analytical deliverables against externally driven negotiation deadlines
- Advanced degree preferred
Benefits
- Eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.
- Award target in the company’s equity award program.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, based on eligibility.
- Paid time off, based on eligibility.
- Retirement savings options, based on eligibility.
- Wellness programs, based on eligibility.
- Other resources supporting the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families, based on eligibility.
- Remote/Hybrid work arrangement
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