Senior Manager

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Position Summary
The Sr Manager, Resources for Living (RFL) Partnership Management is responsible for leading and coordinating the strategy, development, and execution of new and existing strategic RFL partnerships and network strategy. This role reports to the strategy leadership within the organization and is focused on optimizing relationships and driving mutual value across key internal and external stakeholders. The Sr Manager will identify, evaluate, and implement partnership and other strategic opportunities, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and initiatives.

Key responsibilities include:

• Manage provider relationships and preferred partnership programs, ensuring contract compliance, and effective communication.
• Lead internal and external partners and stakeholders to evaluate opportunities for partnership value optimization and strategic management.
• Support strategic initiatives by executing partnership strategies and identify opportunities for expansion, enhancement of capabilities, new partnerships and shared value across RFL programs.
• Apply an analytical approach to problem-solving in a fast-paced environment by leveraging data insights to drive strategic improvements, support business objectives, and guide the development of initiatives.

• Collaborate closely with the national network team and RFL leadership to support overall network strategy by managing partnership development activities and building strong relationships with national network teams and line of business leaders to drive execution of strategic partnerships.
• Support the execution of our RFL community provider strategy.

• Develop and maintain frameworks to drive strategic business needs and identify opportunities for increased mutual value with partners and influence provider alignment to our strategic objectives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and business segments to ensure all workflow processes, interdependencies, and operational tradeoffs are identified and addressed.
• Conduct strategic market and competitive analysis to identify and implement external opportunities and innovations that align with organizational needs.
• Represent the company with high-visibility constituents, including strategic partners and customers.
• Align with multi-year strategic priorities and identifying gaps and opportunities to drive new partnerships relevant to RFL objectives.

• Proactively identify barriers and risks with partner operations, propose solutions, and escalate to leadership as needed.

• Support contract negotiations and vendor/relationship management to build successful partnership outcomes.
• Possess sound business judgment and tact; understanding and taking into account downstream operational dependencies and tradeoffs.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated relationship management skills at peer levels within an organization and with external constituents.
• Proven track record of creating accountability within teams or partnerships.
• Demonstrated experience developing analysis, presentations, and support material to successfully implement strategy or change initiatives.
• Experience working with technology professionals and managing cross-functional initiatives with moderate complexity.
• 5+ years of experience and technical/functional expertise in one or more of the following areas: management consulting, network management, project management, or account management.
• Experience with network management, contract negotiations and vendor management.
• Experience with financial models / financial acumen
• Outcomes focused and discussion facilitation with ability to identify route cause questions to resolve business matters

Preferred Qualifications

• Ideal candidate will have 5-10 years of work experience in project or account management, change management, implementation, or equivalent work experience.
• Proven ability to interact with, influence, and collaborate with business leaders and managers at all organizational levels.
• Proven track record of developing successful partner relationships and programs that drive partner revenue at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize effectively, and meet deadlines.
• Experience with enterprise-wide and/or cross-functional large-scale initiatives with high complexity.
• Familiarity with network contracting and value-based arrangements
• Possesses sound business judgment and tact; understands downstream operational dependencies and tradeoffs.
• Prior work experience in healthcare, home care, or start-ups preferred.

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$67,900.00 - $199,144.00

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.  This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program. 
 

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

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 10/12/2025

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