Senior Manager, Process Excellence

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Summary

The Senior Manager Process Excellence position in Caremarks Center of Excellence requires an ambitious motivated and eager individual seeking to transform our business and be a part of a Fortune 6 company. The position is a part of our enterprise supporting a team focused on process improvement change management and transformation in all facets of our business.

As the Senior Manager Process Excellence youll be responsible for leading end-to-end large-scale enterprise-wide transformations. You will lead highly complex initiatives shape direction and influence senior leadership while operating with a high degree of autonomy. You will also play a critical role in elevating team capability through coaching Managers and Senior Analysts.

This role requires and individual who is a thought leader and is able to establish and influence governance KPIs and sustainability models.

Key Responsibilities

• Process Improvement
  • Leads large-scale cross-functional transformation initiatives and structures ambiguous problems into actionable plans.
  • Drives the design of process improvement plans and is an expert in proven methods and tools such as: DMAIC DMADV DFSS and LEAN.
  • Master facilitator for large-scale matrixed projects Kaizen Events Rapid Process Improvement Events Current / Future state design and other types of events.
  • Aligns initiatives to enterprise priorities.
  • Establishes governance KPIs and sustainability models.
  • Lead and perform detailed quantitative and qualitative analyses (e.g. cycle time defect rates rework capacity handoffs etc.) using Excel Minitab and other tools.
  • Ensure project team remains on track follows departmental standards and provides regular updates to key stakeholders.

• Change Execution
  • Drives design of change management execution plans utilizing proven methods and tools such as: ADKAR Kotters 8-Step Model Lewins Model and others.
  • Ensures change efforts and enable adoption behavior change and sustained outcomes across operational teams.
  • Partners with executive sponsors stakeholders and business leaders to assess change readiness stakeholder impacts and resistance risks.
  • Drives the development and execution of change deliverables including: communications training materials job aids and reinforcement plans.
  • Monitors adoption of metrics and feedback loops to adjust change strategies as needed in real-time.
  • Drives business adoption plans and enables smooth transition of ownership.

• Strategic Support
  • Serves as a thought leader and can influence without authority.
  • Strategic thinker who applies solutions across the enterprise and ties them to corporate strategic objectives.
  • Advances enterprise methodologies and standards.
  • Scales best practices across the enterprise.
  • Displays a strong executive presence.
  • Expert in coaching experienced process and change practitioners.
  • Ability to pull resources from a variety of teams and skill sets to design build test and deploy solutions.

You will need to be a person who is a natural leader a skilled mentor and coach and has a strong desire to grow with an evolving high performing team.

Required Qualifications:

• 7 years of experience in process improvement change execution and strategic support.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PBM experience.
• Experience leading complex initiatives in matrixed environment.
• Experience presenting to executive leadership.
• Black Belt Certification and/or Change Management Certification.
• Project Management Certification.
• Experience and familiarity with QuickBase Lucid and Visio.
• People leadership experience.

Education

• Bachelors Degree.
• Masters Degree preferred.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

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 companys 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 offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

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