Oncology & Rare Disease Products - Senior Manager; RPh

Position Summary

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.

This position will be responsible for driving growth in Specialty by building innovative products that secure our position as the market leader in payor focused Specialty solutions and creating disruptive and holistic solutions to address oncology, rare disease, and other high‑cost therapies to ensure best‑in‑class management of cost and quality of care. The role includes developing a robust product roadmap based on current and anticipated market trends and working across the organization to deliver new and market‑leading solutions to market.

Oncology, Rare Disease and High Cost Therapy Program Innovation

• Build and execute product roadmap that solves payor, provider and patient needs related to oncology, rare disease and other high‑cost therapies,
  • Develop cost‑management and population‑health programs such as formulary and coverage strategies, prior authorization programs, NCCN programs, care management programs, patient and provider engagement programs, value‑based arrangements, and more to promote the delivery of high‑quality, safe, and effective programs which optimize health outcomes, improve the provider and member experience, and reduce costs for clients and members.
  • Leverage pharmacist expertise to inform clinical strategy, to define drug lists, clinical pathways, program rules, the member and provider journey, and oversee the performance of clinical workflows to identify optimization opportunities.
  • Assist in the development of tools and processes that improve the effectiveness of clinical and quality monitoring.
  • Leverage unique assets across the PBM, Payor Relations, Specialty pharmacy, Coram, Digital, and Aetna to deliver differentiating capabilities that establish CVS as a leader in oncology and high‑cost therapy management.
  • Collaborate across the organization—Product, Clinical, Operations, Finance, Legal, Sales, Marketing—and beyond, with external partners, to develop strategies that provide winning solutions to manage high‑cost medical drugs and treatments in market and in pipeline.
  • Key skills:
    • Thinks and Acts Strategically:
      • Identifies new innovation and sources of value for the enterprise and sets the pace for delivering results.
      • Creates and strengthens partnerships within and outside the enterprise to deliver new solutions.
      • Uses critical thinking, “outside‑of‑the‑box” thinking, and strategy to balance multiple stakeholder needs (e.g., patient, payor, pharma, pharmacy, enterprise).
    • Sets Direction:
      • Engages in business plan development and proactively anticipates needs that can be addressed with an innovation strategy or solution.
      • Builds the roadmap to deliver innovation by leading the development, validation, and scaling of data‑driven solutions to maintain market leadership with patient experience, clinical outcomes, and cost‑management strategies.
    • Impacts and Influences:
      • Develops and maintains productive relationships with all levels, internally and externally.
      • Fluent at cross‑functional leadership.
    • Delivers results:
      • Plans, develops, and executes short‑ and long‑range innovation program goals.
      • Identifies risk and mitigation strategies to deliver innovation solutions.
      • Prepares and delivers presentations that translate analytic insights to tangible actionable solutions to implement.
      • Sets vision and gains alignment from team and cross‑functional partners; holds individuals and self accountable for results.

• 5+ years developing and owning healthcare innovation products with an in‑depth understanding of managed care and overall marketplace dynamics to anticipate and address emerging market needs.
• Registered pharmacist (Doctor of Pharmacy).
• Ability to manage multiple high‑growth products and related budgets.
• Ability to…