# Lead Director, Strategic Initiatives

**Company**: CVS Health
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $100,000.00 - $231,540.00
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We're building a world of health around every individual , shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience.

The Lead Director, Strategic Initiatives will serve as a senior strategic advisor and individual contributor responsible for addressing high-priority, high-complexity business opportunities and challenges across Aetna Clinical Solutions (ACS).

**Key Responsibilities**

- Lead high-complexity and large-scale strategic initiatives and business cases requiring significant cross-functional analysis and executive engagement.

- Structure ambiguous business challenges, develop hypotheses and analytical approaches, and translate findings into actionable strategic recommendations.

- Develop rigorous strategic, operational, and financial assessments to evaluate new capabilities, investments, business opportunities, and transformation priorities.

- Conduct internal and external benchmarking and other fact-based assessments to identify opportunities to improve business performance and inform strategic direction.

- Lead opportunity development from initial problem definition through analysis, recommendation, and executive decision support.

- Partner with ACS leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate strategic alternatives, tradeoffs, risks, and organizational implications.

- Develop executive-level presentations, recommendations, and decision materials that simplify complex topics and clearly articulate strategic choices.

- Support high-priority executive requests and strategic projects where dedicated analytical leadership is required.

- Develop repeatable approaches, analytical frameworks, and problem-solving capabilities that establish the foundation for a future ACS internal consulting capability.

- Prepare and facilitate steering committees, leadership governance forums, and executive reviews for strategic initiatives, framing decisions, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations for leadership action.

- Incorporate funding, resource capacity, delivery dependencies, and expected value into strategic assessments and business cases so leadership can evaluate the full implications of major decisions.

- Identify opportunities to improve business performance through process optimization, automation, AI-enabled analytics, and productivity initiatives, and translate opportunities into actionable recommendations.

**Required Qualifications**

- 10+ years of progressive experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, strategic finance, business transformation, strategic planning, or related disciplines.

- Demonstrated experience leading complex strategic assessments, business cases, or enterprise-scale initiatives from problem definition through recommendation.

- Advanced analytical and structured problem-solving capabilities, including financial and quantitative analysis.

- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and independently structure complex business problems.

- Strong business acumen with the ability to evaluate strategic, operational, and financial implications of potential decisions.

- Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and align stakeholders across organizational boundaries without direct authority.

- Exceptional executive communication, presentation, and storytelling capabilities.

- Ability to simultaneously manage multiple high-priority initiatives and changing leadership priorities.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Management consulting or internal strategy experience.

- Healthcare or health insurance experience.

- Experience developing large-scale transformation business cases and strategic recommendations.

- Experience working with executive leadership on enterprise-level strategic priorities.

- Knowledge of clinical and health plan operations.

**Education**

- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience. Master's degree preferred.

**Pay Range**

- $100,000.00 - $231,540.00

**Benefits**

- Medical, dental, and vision coverage

- Paid time off

- Retirement savings options

- Wellness programs

- Other resources, based on eligibility

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## Skills

### Required
- strategic planning
- management consulting
- business transformation
- financial analysis
- problem-solving

### Nice to have
- healthcare
- health insurance
- clinical operations
- health plan operations

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