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Position Summary
The Senior Manager, Payer Negotiation Strategy and Market Intelligence, builds and maintains the payer-specific playbook set covering CVS Pharmacy’s largest payer relationships, establishes the pre-positioning frameworks applied ahead of material negotiations, facilitates structured deal reviews and debriefs, and drives adoption of approved negotiation preparation tooling across the function. It converts each negotiation into transferable institutional knowledge.
This person will strengthen negotiation effectiveness by translating market intelligence, stakeholder insight, and negotiation learnings into clear, repeatable strategy. This role will monitor shifts in PBM and health plan strategy, develop a deep understanding of negotiation counterpart objectives, and convert those insights into practical playbooks and tools that help partner teams negotiate with greater consistency, precision, and confidence. This role will also lead post-mortem review of negotiation outcomes, using lessons learned to continuously refine strategy, strengthen playbooks, and improve future execution.
The role is an individual contributor with regular working exposure to Directors, Lead Directors and above, and is structured as a development seat toward deal ownership within Payer Relations.
Success is measured by whether negotiation quality becomes repeatable, documented, and materially less dependent on any single individual.
Required Qualifications
5+ years of professional experience in contract negotiation, pharmacy benefit management, managed care, or comparable commercial discipline
5+ years of experience in strategy, market intelligence, consulting, or a related field
3+ years of experience leading, mentoring, developing, or influencing team members and stakeholders across a complex, matrixed environment
Experience translating complex market, stakeholder, and business insights into concise, actionable tools, frameworks, or strategic guidance
Experience conducting retrospective, post-mortem, or after-action analyses with Director-level and above participates to assess performance
Demonstrated ability to identify patterns, extract lessons learned, and incorporate them into actionable insights
Demonstrated experience driving sustained adoption to new processes and frameworks
Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and shape decisions without direct authority
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to distill complexity into clear guidance for both leadership and partner teams
Ability to influence without direct authority across a senior audience
Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of this role
Travel up to 15% of the time
Any additional tasks as directed by supervisor or manager
Preferred Qualifications
Formal negotiation training or certification
Experience within a center of excellence, enablement or capability-building function
Experience creating materials for both executive audiences and operational partner teams
Experience working in ambiguous, fast-changing environments where continuity and knowledge transfer are critical
Facilitation, coaching or instructional design experience
Interest in progressing toward commercial deal ownership within Payer Relations
Education
Bachelor's degree required. Advanced degree preferred.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$82,940.00 - $182,549.00
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within…