Lead Director, Pharmacy Growth and Incubation

Woonsocket, RI (Unknown)

$100K/yr – $232K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own growth opportunities for a CVS Pharmacy expansion with immunizations as the starting point, turning insights into pilots and partnerships that drive retention and long term value.

  • Own hypothesis-led pilots and rapid learning to shape investment and scale decisions across Pharmacy, Marketing, Ops, DDAT, and Legal.
  • Build strategic partnerships with health systems, providers, pharma, and third party delivery to unlock new growth channels.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Identify and shape new pharmacy growth opportunities for 2027+, prioritizing immunizations as the initial focus area
  • Build and advance growth strategies that strengthen customer engagement, retention, and long-term value creation
  • Define key questions and hypotheses and lead test-and-learn pilots/rapid learning efforts to inform investment priorities and scaling decisions
  • Drive growth through strategic partnerships across CVS Health and externally with health systems, providers, pharma, and third-party delivery partners
  • Translate insights into strategic recommendations and business cases, and lead cross-functional execution (Pharmacy, Marketing, Operations, DDAT, Legal, etc.) with urgency and accountability while developing a high-performing team and culture of innovation

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in strategy, consulting, business development, growth, innovation, or closely related roles.
  • Proven ability to lead complex initiatives end-to-end (strategy through execution) in matrixed environments
  • Demonstrated success turning ambiguous opportunities into structured plans, including defining and running pilots and delivering actionable recommendations
  • Experience in customer strategy, growth strategy, and/or go-to-market execution, including launching or scaling new products, services, or business models, plus partnership strategy (incubation, pilot design, scaling, and new growth initiatives)
  • Strong analytical, strategic, and financial acumen (including building business cases and evaluating growth opportunities using data, judgment, and market insight) paired with strong communication, influencing, cross-functional leadership, and talent development experience
  • Education: Bachelors or equivalent experience required

Preferred

  • Experience in healthcare and in at least one key part of the ecosystem, such as payer, provider, pharma, retail health, or closely related sectors
  • Understanding of how value is created across multiple healthcare stakeholders and how to navigate complexity across the ecosystem
  • MBA or advanced degree in business, public health, healthcare administration, or a related field

Benefits

  • This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
  • Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
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Founded in 1963
Woonsocket, Rhode Island, USA
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