AI Process Innovation Manager

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

As a Manager within Process, Innovation and Technology (PIT) team, you will serve as the AI Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Business Product Owner for contact center technology supporting the Retail Customer Care organization. In this role, you will lead and collaborate closely with IT and business partners to design, develop, and deploy both legacy systems and advanced AI-powered applications and services.

These solutions will span a wide range of contact center and operations support functions, with a focus on accelerating automation, improving agent productivity, and enhancing customer experience.

You will be responsible for leveraging advanced AI skillsets to optimize contact center technology, with a strong emphasis on prompt engineering to develop and refine AI agent responses. Your role will include training AI agents to autonomously execute tasks and continuously improve their performance, as well as automating complex workflows through intelligent orchestration of AI agents. This involves enhancing agent assistance and self‑service capabilities using conversational AI, generative AI, implementing agentic AI for autonomous operations, and deploying sophisticated solutions for real‑time routing, sentiment analysis, risk detection, and decision support.

Your work will empower our colleagues to deliver responsive, empathetic, and personalized service across all channels, supporting not only external customers but also internal stakeholders and colleagues. This includes assisting stakeholders directly, conducting proactive outreach, and providing valuable support to internal teams to ensure seamless operations and collaboration throughout the organization.

This role requires a passion for AI and continuous improvement, a strategic mindset, strong cross‑functional collaboration, and effective communication. You will play a critical role in shaping the future of the contact center experience by optimizing existing technologies and piloting new solutions that simplify interactions and improve performance.

• Serve as the AI SME and Business Product Owner for contact center technologies, ensuring alignment between business goals and application capabilities.

• Design, develop, and deploy AI agents—including prompt‑response agents, task‑oriented agents, and autonomous agents—to automate workflows and enhance operational efficiency.

• Collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to define requirements, AI use cases, and deliver AI‑enabled solutions for operational challenges.

• Lead the deployment, testing, and optimization of generative AI models to support agent‑assist, customer self‑service, and operational analytics.

• Build and maintain prompt libraries and documentation to support scalable and effective AI deployment.

• Evaluate and pilot emerging contact center technologies—including AI‑driven customer support and intelligent self‑service.

• Stay current with AI trends, tools, and regulatory developments.

• Mentor cross‑functional teams on AI capabilities and best practices.

• Oversee the intake, prioritization, and execution of technology changes—including, but not limited to application releases, upgrades, and Tier 2 incident management—ensuring scalable, sustainable improvements across the contact center environment.

• Identify opportunities for improvement and address breakdowns in contact center processes and technologies by leading remediation efforts and driving performance optimization across systems, workflows, and agent tools.

• Develop and present executive‑level insights, recommendations, and performance updates with clarity and impact.

• Foster a culture…