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.

Position Summary

The Strategic Proposal Management (SPM) organization is solely responsible for developing and executing all proposals and proposal-related activity for CVS Caremark. Our team is responsible for creating proposals that clearly demonstrate that CVS Caremark is uniquely positioned to deliver significant benefits to health plan sponsors through effective cost management solutions and innovative programs that engage plan members and promote healthier and more cost-effective behaviors. Through our unique suite of assets, CVS Health is reinventing pharmacy to offer innovative solutions that help people on their path to better health.

We effectively manage pharmaceutical costs and improve health care outcomes through our pharmacy benefit management services (PBM) – CVS Caremark®, our mail order and specialty pharmacy division, our CVS Pharmacy retail locations, our retail-based medical clinic subsidiary, MinuteClinic® and our online retail pharmacy, CVS.com®. We are focused on enhancing access to care, lowering overall health care costs for plan members and payors, and improving health outcomes.

The Sr. Analyst’s main responsibilities will include successfully leading proposals across all market segments and appropriate levels of complexity. The Sr. Analyst will impart department best practices to ensure consistency and accuracy in our responses.

The Sr. Analyst will often work under aggressive timelines, including working on 6+ proposals, follow-ups, and extra projects simultaneously, while ensuring the accuracy of information and effectively positioning CVS Caremark’s products and services by incorporating corporate strengths and key messaging. This position requires coordination with internal strategic partners such as sales, account teams, underwriting, legal, and other internal partners to ensure we are best positioning CVS Caremark in the marketplace.

Position Responsibilities

• Assists with establishing and implementing results-based programs and innovative initiatives for the Proposal area, under general supervision.
• Applies in-depth knowledge of the Proposal field to offer feedback for decisions and innovation strategies that enhance organizational growth and visibility.
• Gathers information from systems to complete increasingly challenging requests for proposals, including network statistical data, questionnaire responses, statistical facts, and sample materials.
• Customizes questionnaire responses based on case-specific quotation strategy and customer priorities.
• Conducts thorough research to create questionnaire responses where a standard response does not exist.
• Calculates fees within assigned variance authority levels requiring a solid understanding of the organization pricing methodology and underwriting policies.
Coaches more junior colleagues in techniques, processes, and responsibilities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Working knowledge of execution and delivery (planning, delivering, and supporting) skills 
• Working knowledge of business intelligence 
• Working knowledge of problem solving and decision making skills 
• Adept at collaboration and teamwork 
• Adept at growth mindset (agility and developing yourself and others) skills 

• 3-5 years work experience

Preferred Qualifications

Fluent knowledge of Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook) and ideal candidates would also be familiar with Qvidian and salesforce.com products. Proposal/Project management experience strongly preferred. Knowledge of industry terminology and/or of Medicare Part D is helpful.

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred/specialized training/relevant professional qualification. 

Anticipated Weekly Hours

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Pay Range

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 incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. 
 

Our people fuel our future. 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.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.

• No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.

• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits

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