Lead Director, 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 and opportunities, facilitate decision-making, and execute early-stage proofs of concept.

• Market Intelligence: Act as the 'tip of the spear' for market intelligence, translating evolving healthcare landscape trends and policy developments into business implications and growth opportunities
• Ideation and Market Testing: Lead the strategic evaluation and piloting of next-generation products and capabilities, utilizing lean startup approaches to validate solutions for market readiness and revenue growth.
• Market Sizing and Commercial Modeling : Conduct rigorous market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM), competitive benchmarking, and commercial modeling to determine the long-term financial viability and ROI of new strategic plays.
• Partnerships Evaluation: Play a lead role in evaluating strategic partnerships; drive comprehensive capability assessments, build/buy/partner decisions, and contracting
• Strategic Roadmap Alignment: Ensure net-new product concepts and growth initiatives seamlessly integrate into Signify Health's corporate planning cycles and CVS Health long-range strategic objectives

• Cross-Functional Mobilization: Form and lead agile, matrixed working groups across Product, Clinical, Operations, and Finance to rapidly pressure-test hypotheses and drive initiatives from initial concept to executive sign-off
• Data-Driven Storytelling: Turn complex financial outputs, market data, and strategic hypotheses into clean, persuasive presentations and narratives for senior leadership.
• Executive Influence:
  Steer highly effective executive meetings, adapting in real time to drive decisions and positioning oneself as a trusted advisor to Signify's ELT and cross-CVS Health enterprise leadership.

• 8+ Years of Experience in a dynamic, fast-moving profession such as management consulting or corporate strategy
• 5+ years of Healthcare Industry
  
  Experience:
  
  Porvider sector experience, knowledge of Medicare/Medicaid populations and regulatory environment
• Financial Modeling
  
  Experience:
  
  Comfort with market sizing and commercial modeling to determine ROI and long-term viability
• Strategic & Analytical Intuition: Highly strategic thinker who is comfortable with ambiguity, simplifying complex problems, and backing up strategic hypotheses with data.
• Executive Presence: Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including a proven track record of delivering structured presentations to ELT-level audiences and driving decisions.
• Ability to Travel up to 20% (otherwise remote)

• Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of additional relevant healthcare domains (home health, diagnostics and preventive services, pharma, population health)
• Location: Chicago or New York City is preferred, but not required

• Bachelor's degree required
• Advanced degree is highly preferred (MBA, MPH, or MHA)

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…