Sr Manager - Clinical 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.

A Senior Manager of Clinical Innovation is a critical contributor to managing and successfully driving use cases within the clinical innovation portfolio and initiatives that solve key business problems, and support development of new sources of value within Aetna's Clinical Solutions business unit.

• Leads, partners, and collaborates with cross-functional teams, including key internal and external stakeholders, to develop, test, and implement innovative solutions. Define, rationalize and align priorities with clearly defined business rationale
• Drives and manages innovation scope through all stages such as ideation/concept, solution development and pilot with an eye towards scaled, readiness, value realization and monitoring. Manages risk, develops interventions and facilitates working sessions as well as delivers all required analysis, reporting and presentation materials
• Supports the evaluation of new concepts, emerging innovation trends and clinical operations/offerings benchmarking within the healthcare industry and subsequently develops these trends into new and innovative solutions that solve key business problems and deliver break through value
• Foster a culture that accelerates our strategy through our Heart At Work Behaviors by keeping the customer and colleague as the central focus

• This is a work-from-home position and one may live anywhere in the continental US.
• There isn't any travel involved with the exception on an occasional team meeting

• 7+ years Program Management experience leading complex initiatives
• 2+ years successful experience in strategy, innovation and/or portfolio management within healthcare industry or equivalent industry
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, effectively communicate key messages across all levels of the organization including executive leaders and internal/external stake holders.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; proven ability to develop and deliver presentations to senior leadership team members.
• Strong data and analytics skills to synthesize information and derive key insights.
• High ability to consistently produce and create value and meet/exceed committed performance
• High ability to drive new innovation in highly cross-functional environments
• Demonstrated relationship management skills; capacity to quickly build and maintain credible relationships at varying levels of the organization.

• Experience identifying value opportunities and creating new capabilities and/or project offerings that result in new value
• Conceptual and structured thinker with proven ability to generate and translate concepts and ideas into effective strategies that achieve results
• Ability to embrace & promote change, navigate uncertainty and shifting priorities and plans to accommodate broader changing objectives and demands
• Experience with enterprise-wide and/or cross-functional large scale initiatives with high degree of complexity.
• Experience with the following:
  Innovation, analytics, generative AI, business process optimization, enterprise business portfolio management/consulting, financial analysis, strategic planning, risk management, product strategy, regulatory policy
• Broad understanding of the healthcare landscape with ability to synthesize…