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# Lead Director, Strategic Initiatives & Transformation

- **Company:** CVS Health
- **Location:** Harrisburg, PA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $100,000 - $231,540
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Decision Support Systems
- **Published:** November 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/88CF7CFCAF1F42DEBCD5BC85C3CA276E/job/

## About the Role

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

## Description

*We are open to location for this remote/hybrid opportunity, with a preference for qualified candidates in the Central or East time zones. *

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).

The role will lead the development of large-scale and complex business cases, strategic assessments, benchmarking, opportunity evaluation, and other executive-priority initiatives requiring rigorous analytical problem solving. Working across ACS and with enterprise partners, the Lead Director will structure ambiguous business problems, assess funding, resource capacity, delivery dependencies, and expected value, and translate fact-based recommendations into actionable plans and executive decisions.

The role will also help establish the foundation for a broader internal strategic consulting capability within 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.