Manager, Proposals - Military veterans preferred

Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand with heart at its center our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.

Our Heart At Work Behaviors support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.
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, a Fortune 6 company, 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 Managers main responsibilities will include successfully managing proposals across all market segments and levels of complexity, with a specific focus on supporting the most complex and key/must win and renew proposals. Additionally, this individual is expected to be a subject matter expert and act as a team SME. In that capacity, the Manager will act as a mentor for newer team members and act as a proposal support across the team, imparting department best practices to ensure consistency and accuracy in our responses. In addition to proposals, Managers are expected to participate in, and lead, department-wide initiatives that have a positive impact on quality and process improvements across the team.
The Manager will often work under aggressive timelines, including working on 6+ proposals, follow-ups, and extra projects simultaneously while also providing daily guidance/support to newer staff members, including interim and final proposal reviews, while ensuring the accuracy of information and effectively positioning CVS Caremarks 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.

Required Qualifications
- 5+ yrs professional experience in PBM/health care industry, Sales/Consulting, Proposal/Project management.

Preferred Qualifications
Demonstrated experience managing projects and strong organizational skills
Demonstrated ability to work successfully in a matrix environment
Ability to work independently while also demonstrating successful team work
Experience in ensuring quality control standards are met
Demonstrated ability to work successfully in fast-paced environment while ensuring quality and accuracy
Demonstrated in their current role the ability to foster an environment of influence and consistently act as a positive role model for other team members, taking responsibility for his/her decisions and actions.
Has established a network of relationships with business leaders and subject matter experts through effectively communicating with all levels within the organization.
- 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.
Demonstrated experience managing projects and strong organizational skills
Demonstrated ability to work successfully in a matrix environment
Ability to work independently while also demonstrating successful team work
Experience in ensuring quality control standards are met
Demonstrated ability to work successfully in fast-paced environment while ensuring quality and accuracy
Demonstrated in their current role the ability to foster an environment of influence and consistently act as a positive role model for other team members, taking responsibility for his/her decisions and actions.
Has established a network of relationships with business leaders and subject matter experts through effectively communicating with all levels within the organization.
- 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
Bachelors degree is required. A degree focusing on Marketing, Communications, Health Care, Business or other relevant fields is preferred. Equivalent experience may be considered.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$63,300.00 - $139,200.00

Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand with heart at its center our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.

Our Heart At Work Behaviors support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.
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, a Fortune 6 company, 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 Managers main responsibilities will include successfully managing proposals across all market segments and levels of complexity, with a specific focus on supporting the most complex and key/must win and renew proposals. Additionally, this individual is expected to be a subject matter expert and act as a team SME. In that capacity, the Manager will act as a mentor for newer team members and act as a proposal support across the team, imparting department best practices to ensure consistency and accuracy in our responses. In addition to proposals, Managers are expected to participate in, and lead, department-wide initiatives that have a positive impact on quality and process improvements across the team.
The Manager will often work under aggressive timelines, including working on 6+ proposals, follow-ups, and extra projects simultaneously while also providing daily guidance/support to newer staff members, including interim and final proposal reviews, while ensuring the accuracy of information and effectively positioning CVS Caremarks 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.

Required Qualifications
- 5+ yrs professional experience in PBM/health care industry, Sales/Consulting, Proposal/Project management.

Preferred Qualifications

Demonstrated experience managing projects and strong organizational skills
Demonstrated ability to work successfully in a matrix environment
Ability to work independently while also demonstrating successful team work
Experience in ensuring quality control standards are met
Demonstrated ability to work successfully in fast-paced environment while ensuring quality and accuracy
Demonstrated in their current role the ability to foster an environment of influence and consistently act as a positive role model for other team members, taking responsibility for his/her decisions and actions.
Has established a network of relationships with business leaders and subject matter experts through effectively communicating with all levels within the organization.
- 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

Bachelors degree is required. A degree focusing on Marketing, Communications, Health Care, Business or other relevant fields is preferred. Equivalent experience may be considered.

Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$63,300.00 - $139,200.00 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.

In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities. The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits. Eligible employees may enroll in the Companys 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees. The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners. As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off (PTO) or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company

policies.

For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit

jobs.CVSHealth.com/benefits
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 09/30/2024 CVS Health requires certain colleagues to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including any booster shots if required), where allowable under the law, unless they are approved for a reasonable accommodation based on disability, medical condition, religious belief, or other legally recognized reasons that prevents them from being vaccinated.
You are required to have received at least one COVID-19 shot prior to your first day of employment and to provide proof of your vaccination status or apply for a reasonable accommodation within the first 10 days of your employment. Please note that in some states and roles, you may be required to provide proof of full vaccination or an approved reasonable accommodation before you can begin to actively work.
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