Senior Manager, Strategy & Innovation

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

The Signify Health Strategy & Innovation team is responsible for shaping the company’s long-term strategy, discovering opportunities to accelerate growth, and identifying and testing net-new offerings or capabilities. The team serves in an advisory capacity to Signify’s Executive Leadership Team (ELT)—partnering closely with leaders to evaluate challenges, facilitate decision-making, and execute early-stage proofs of concept.

The Senior Manager, Strategy & Innovation will play a pivotal role in translating Signify Health’s long-term vision into actionable growth strategies and rigorously vetted business cases. Reporting to the team’s Executive Director, you will serve as the Strategy & Innovation team’s ultimate go-to resource and subject matter expert for all financial analyses, commercial modeling, and business case underwriting.

This role requires a unique blend of strategic intuition, healthcare domain knowledge, and advanced quantitative skills. You will be tasked with aligning industry trends to company capabilities, building the financial architecture behind next-generation product ideas, and pressure-testing viability through data-driven methodologies.

• Market Intelligence: Monitor evolving healthcare landscape trends, regulatory shifts, and policy developments to translate them into quantifiable business implications and growth opportunities.

• Ideation & Market Testing: Support the strategic evaluation and piloting of next-generation products, utilizing lean methodologies to validate solutions for market readiness and scalable revenue growth.

• Partnership & Capability Evaluation: Play a key analytical role in evaluating strategic partnerships and external capabilities, driving financial diligence and build-vs-partner framework economics.

• Strategic Roadmap Alignment: Ensure growth initiatives seamlessly integrate into Signify Health’s corporate planning cycles and CVS Health’s long-range strategic objectives.

• Go-To Financial Anchor: Serve as the core quantitative resource for the Innovation team, owning the end-to-end development of complex, dynamic financial models, long-range forecasts, and ROI frameworks for net-new initiatives.

• Commercial Modeling & Market Sizing: Conduct rigorous market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM), competitive benchmarking, and pricing sensitivity analyses to determine the financial viability of new strategic plays.

• Business Case Underwriting: Build the financial foundation for capital allocation requests, ensuring assumptions around revenue structures, cost to serve, and implementation margins are ironclad.

• Cross-Functional Mobilization: Partner closely with Product, Clinical, Operations, and Corporate Finance teams to gather modeling inputs, stress-test operational hypotheses, and align financial projections.

• Data-Driven Storytelling: Translate highly complex financial outputs and strategic hypotheses into clean, visually compelling, and persuasive presentations for senior leadership.

• Executive Presentation Support: Present analytical findings and financial models clearly to senior leadership, defending assumptions under scrutiny and translating numbers into strategic narratives.

• 6+ Years of Experience in highly analytical, fast-moving environments such as corporate strategy, management consulting, corporate finance

• Advanced Financial Modeling Skills: Advanced, expert-level proficiency in Excel with a proven track record of building complex, transparent, and dynamic financial models 

• 3+ Years of Healthcare Industry Experience: Strong foundational knowledge of the provider/payer sectors, Medicare/Medicaid populations, and the value-based care regulatory environment.

• Strategic & Analytical Intuition: A strategic thinker who is highly comfortable with ambiguity, capable of structuring abstract problems, and dedicated to backing up hypotheses with rigorous data.

• Strong Communication Presence: Proven ability to deliver structured presentations, distill complex financial concepts for non-financial audiences, and confidently engage with senior leaders.

• Ability to Travel up to 20% (otherwise remote).

• Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of additional relevant healthcare domains (home health, diagnostics/preventive services, pharma services, population health, or digital health tech).

• Location: Chicago or New York City is preferred, but not required.

• Bachelor’s degree required (preferably in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a highly quantitative field).

• Advanced degree (MBA) is highly preferred.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

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.

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