Lead Director, Strategy & Innovation

CVS Health•Work At Home-Texas, TX

2d•$100,000 - $231,540•Remote

About The Position

The Signify Health Strategy & Innovation team is responsible for shaping the company’s long-term strategy, discovering opportunities to accelerate growth, and identifying and testing net new offerings or capabilities. The team serves in an advisory capacity to Signify’s Executive Leadership Team (ELT) - partnering closely with leaders to evaluate challenges and opportunities, facilitate decision-making, and execute early-stage proofs of concept. The Lead Director, Strategy & Innovation will play a pivotal role in translating Signify Health’s long-term vision into actionable growth strategies and innovative service offerings. Reporting to the team’s Executive Director, you will focus on market research, problem framing, solution design, and the development of compelling business cases for new opportunities. The role will have high visibility across multiple functions, including Product, Operations, Client Success, Clinical, Finance, and Signify’s ELT. This leader must bring expertise at the intersection of clinical care delivery and technology. You will be tasked with aligning industry trends to company capabilities and pressure-testing next-generation product ideas through in-depth analysis and "fail-fast" methodologies. Ideal candidates are autonomous, creative, and entrepreneurial thinkers who can collaborate effectively across functions and with executive leadership.

Requirements

8+ Years of Experience in a dynamic, fast-moving profession such as management consulting or corporate strategy
5+ years of Healthcare Industry Experience: Provider sector experience, knowledge of Medicare/Medicaid populations and regulatory environment
Financial Modeling Experience: Comfort with market sizing and commercial modeling to determine ROI and long-term viability
Strategic & Analytical Intuition: Highly strategic thinker who is comfortable with ambiguity, simplifying complex problems, and backing up strategic hypotheses with data.
Executive Presence: Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including a proven track record of delivering structured presentations to ELT-level audiences and driving decisions.
Ability to Travel up to 20% (otherwise remote)

Nice To Haves

Deep understanding of additional relevant healthcare domains (home health, diagnostics and preventive services, pharma, population health)

Responsibilities

Act as the ‘tip of the spear’ for market intelligence, translating evolving healthcare landscape trends and policy developments into business implications and growth opportunities
Lead the strategic evaluation and piloting of next-generation products and capabilities, utilizing lean startup approaches to validate solutions for market readiness and revenue growth.
Conduct rigorous market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM), competitive benchmarking, and commercial modeling to determine the long-term financial viability and ROI of new strategic plays.
Play a lead role in evaluating strategic partnerships; drive comprehensive capability assessments, build/buy/partner decisions, and contracting
Ensure net-new product concepts and growth initiatives seamlessly integrate into Signify Health’s corporate planning cycles and CVS Health long-range strategic objectives
Form and lead agile, matrixed working groups across Product, Clinical, Operations, and Finance to rapidly pressure-test hypotheses and drive initiatives from initial concept to executive sign-off
Turn complex financial outputs, market data, and strategic hypotheses into clean, persuasive presentations and narratives for senior leadership.
Steer highly effective executive meetings, adapting in real time to drive decisions and positioning oneself as a trusted advisor to Signify’s ELT and cross-CVS Health enterprise leadership.