Senior Manager Project Management

Job description

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.

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading teams to deliver complex projects that span across one or more business units.

This role involves managing resources, schedules, financials, and adhering to stage gate quality and SDLC control guidelines throughout the full systems development life cycle.

The Senior Project Manager will also manage issues, risks, and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery.

Additionally, this position supports the business by recommending appropriate actions, strategies, and alternatives to meet business needs, ensuring that the end state of the project meets business objectives and that all deliverables and due dates are met.

The Senior Project Manager has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis, verifying that the project produces the required deliverables of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost, and achieves the potential benefits defined in the business case.

This role requires a highly collaborative approach, often managing relationships across multiple functional areas.

**Essential Duties:**

+ Manage complex projects and initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business.
+ Provide leadership for project teams by motivating members to meet project goals and adhere to responsibilities and milestones.
+ Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test, and deployment management activities.
+ Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment, demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence.
+ Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools, and partnerships to expand and mature project management capabilities.
+ Prepare estimates and detailed project plans for all phases of the project.
+ Manage day-to-day project activities and chair project management team meetings.
+ Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues, communicating across leadership.
+ Understand interdependencies between
+ technology, operations, and business needs.
+ Demonstrate functional acumen to support how solutions will address client goals while maintaining alignment with industry best practices.
+ Manage project scope and changes, acting as an internal quality control check for the project.
+ Support formal/informal schedules to manage engagement contracts.
+ Define the Statement of Work and Deliverables.
+ Develop and manage all aspects of project and program engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks, and issues.
+ Set and continually manage project and program expectations while delegating and managing deliverables with team members and stakeholders.
+ Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
+ Monitor, track, and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies, and critical path deliverables.
+ Identify and develop trusted adviser relationships with project and program stakeholders, sponsors, and university stakeholders.
+ Coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise project and program teams.
+ Deliver appropriate and effective executive-level communication.
+ Ensure that projects and programs are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.
+ Manage project and program issues and risks to mitigate impact to baseline.
+ Continue professional development to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods, and best practices.
+ Extensive understanding of project and program management principles, methods, and techniques.
+ Other duties as assigned.

**Key Behavioral Attributes:**

+ Flexible with proven ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
+ Strong leadership, diplomatic, and motivational skills, including the ability to lead up, across, and down multiple business and technology organizations.
+ Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment, demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence.
+ Build and maintain relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus, and achieve objectives.
+ Excellent leadership, communication (written, verbal, and presentation), and interpersonal skills.

**Required qualifications:**

+ 7+ years’ experience in HealthCare Project management.
+ Proven track record in successfully leading projects and programs to on-time, on-schedule, and within-budget close.
+ Ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
+ Ability to manage complex projects or programs through to implementation that impacts multiple processes, systems, functions, and products.

**Preferred qualifications:**

Medicaid experience

**Education and Certification Requirements:**

+ Bachelor’s degree in business, project management, or related field, or equivalent experience.
+ SAFe Agile Specialist Certification is preferred
+ Project Management Certification from a recognized governing body (e.g., PMI, Prince2, ScrumAlliance, etc.) is preferred.

**Pay Range**

The typical pay range for this role is:

$67,900.00 - $165,954.00

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: 10/28/2025

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Required Skill Profession

Other General