Job Description

Job Description
If you are passionate about making a difference in the work you do and solving complex problems while contributing to helping patients on their path to better health, consider growing your career as a Strategy and Innovation Senior Consultant with the CVS Health Health Plan Outcomes Innovation team!

This role will focus on helping CVS Health identify and implement strategies to realize value, specifically within our Aetna patient community, and achieve its mission of helping patients on their path to better health. As a Senior Consultant, you will work with a high-energy team that is motivated by the opportunity to drive better health outcomes for our patients and realize financial results for CVS Health. We want to uncover new medication adherence opportunities, drive down avoidable medical cost expenditure and develop innovative strategies to drive results. We will then operationalize these strategies across our ~10,000 pharmacies, ~1,000 Minute Clinic locations and other enterprise assets (e.g., CVS Caremark, specialty, Coram). Were excited for this work so we look forward to working with somebody who shares our passion and enthusiasm!

Your Typical Day Here Could Include:

Meeting with internal or external subject-matter experts to learn more about the implications of a new regulation or new research findings
Brainstorming with your colleagues to build out a creative approach for a new problem
Engaging partners from across the organization to build out a new patient care program and drive results
Figuring out how to approach an analysis that requires finding/pulling data and then data manipulation/analysis and then going about conducting it
Reaching out to a pharmacy supervisor to set up a pilot test for a new idea in a set of stores
Building out an Excel model to assess the impact of a new offering on patient outcomes and CVS financials
Using data pulls, pilot analyses, and market research to build a business case for a new product proposal
Reporting out on findings and proposing key recommendations to our senior leadership team
Preparing material and presentations in a way that can be easily understood by non-subject matter experts
Setting up time to meet with colleagues to plan a team development activity or social event

This Job Might Be For You If:

You enjoy solving complex problems. If you dont know how to do something, you work to find the answers. You dont get frustrated easily when something doesnt go the way you planned.
You can take complicated concepts and communicate them effectively to a variety of audiences. You write well. You pay attention to the details. You can articulate your thoughts eloquently.
You enjoy working in teams with a diverse set of experiences and backgrounds. You get satisfaction from helping your teammates succeed. You listen to others ideas with an open mind.
You value innovation. You are comfortable questioning the status quo. You are willing to take calculated risks. You are always looking for new ways to improve existing processes.
You are self-motivated. You are eager to step up and take on new and exciting challenges. You take ownership of your work. You pay attention to the details. You notice that the phrase You pay attention to the details was used twice in this job description.
You are passionate about working to improve the health outcomes of CVS Health patients. You recognize that transformational change in health care doesnt happen overnight and you are committed to making a difference one step at a time.
You take charge of your own career growth and development. You have goals and you see how this position will help you get there. Youve gotten feedback that youre already a strong leader, but you want to get stronger.
You enjoy spending your weekends reading the health section of the paper or listening to healthcare podcasts. Youre interested in tracking how the industry is evolving and like understanding the intricacies of it.

Required Qualifications
- 1+ years of experience in a role that involves strategic problem solving and/or new product development (e.g. consulting)
- 1+ years of analytical experience
- 1+ years of experience in MS office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in healthcare space
- Experience in a retail pharmacy setting
- Experience conducting analytics using SQL, Tableau or Access
- Additional database/coding knowledge

Education
- Bachelor's Degree

Business Overview
At CVS Health, we are joined in a common purpose: helping people on their path to better health. We are working to transform health care through innovations that make quality care more accessible, easier to use, less expensive and patient-focused. Working together and organizing around the individual, we are pioneering a new approach to total health that puts people at the heart.

We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, ethnicity, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status or on any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.