Sr Mgr, Research Programs and Governance

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This is a fully remote position and may be performed from anywhere within the United States.

Position Summary
At CVS Health, we are committed to becoming an employer of choice by creating meaningful opportunities for clinicians and colleagues to grow, advance their education, and build long-term careers within the organization. The Senior Manager, Research Programs & Governance will manage Research Pathways, an enterprise program designed to enable clinicians and other eligible colleagues to successfully fulfill the research requirements of advanced-degree programs while continuing to build their careers at CVS Health.

Clinical Evidence Development (CED) in the Data Strategy and Clinical Intelligence Office provides enterprise-wide strategy, consulting, governance, and oversight for clinical and scientific research and associated deliverables, including scientific consultation, methodological review, publication governance, and external dissemination support to deliver cross-enterprise evidence-generation, thought leadership, and go-to-market efforts. This role will oversee the centralized program structure, guidance, and support needed to help working clinicians navigate the intersection of advanced-degree requirements, academic research, and enterprise governance. The Senior Manager will coordinate participant intake, readiness assessment, project planning, research oversight, approvals, documentation, milestone tracking, compliance coordination, and stakeholder communications.

The role will serve as a consistent point of navigation for participants, people leaders, research mentors, academic institutions, business units, and enterprise reviewers. By aligning academic requirements with feasible, appropriately governed research opportunities, the Senior Manager will help reduce avoidable administrative barriers and create a more supportive and efficient experience for clinicians pursuing advanced degrees.

Through scalable infrastructure and a participant-centered experience, Research Pathways will support professional growth, retention, internal mobility, and a stronger clinician talent pipeline while advancing evidence-based practice and enterprise thought leadership.

This role will work closely with cross-matrixed teams and diverse functional partners to ensure that Research Pathways is accessible, rigorous, well-governed, and responsive to the needs of clinicians and the enterprise.

Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities:

Manage Research Pathways as an enterprise talent-development and research-support program that enables clinicians and

other eligible colleagues to fulfill advanced-degree research requirements while building long-term careers at CVS Health

Provide a clear, supportive participant journey from inquiry and intake through readiness assessment, onboarding,

project planning, milestone completion, dissemination, and program completion

Coordinate research oversight and governance, including project review, approvals, documentation, privacy and

compliance touchpoints, publication requirements, issue escalation, and maintenance of complete program records

Partner with participants, people leaders, mentors, academic institutions, business units, and enterprise functions to align

academic requirements, work-based research opportunities, available support, roles, timelines, and decisions

Build scalable processes, templates, guidance, dashboards, communications, and participant resources to support phased expansion across pharmacists, nurses, behavioral health professionals, social workers, community health colleagues, and other populations

Measure participant experience, program reach, milestone progression, completion, retention-related outcomes, risks,

and opportunities for continuous improvement; complete other duties as directed by CED leadership

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in public health, epidemiology, health services research, clinical research, pharmacy, nursing, life sciences, healthcare administration, or a related field. 

• 5 or more years of relevant experience in clinical research, health services research, real-world evidence, research administration, research training, or evidence-generation programs, including prior program or project management responsibility. 

• Demonstrated experience supporting the development and execution of research projects, including refinement of research questions, study design, protocol development, data-source planning, analysis planning, interpretation of findings, and dissemination. 

• Demonstrated knowledge of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research approaches, with the ability to assess whether proposed methods are appropriate and feasible for the research question and advanced-degree requirements. 

• Experience reviewing research protocols, proposals, analytic plans, data-collection tools, tables, figures, abstracts, posters, presentations, manuscripts, or other scientific deliverables for scientific rigor, accuracy, and alignment between findings and conclusions. 

• Experience applying research-governance requirements, including Institutional Review Board processes, human-subjects research protections, Good Clinical Practice, Responsible Conduct of Research, privacy, compliance, publication governance, and documented quality-control procedures. 

• Ability to guide clinicians and other learners in translating academic degree requirements and practice-based questions into feasible, appropriately scoped, and well-governed research projects. 

• Demonstrated experience managing research or education programs that include participant intake, project oversight, mentor or faculty coordination, approvals, documentation, milestone tracking, issue escalation, and outcome reporting. 

• Ability to coordinate clinicians, people leaders, research mentors, academic institutions, analysts, business units, and enterprise reviewers while maintaining clear accountability, decision records, and participant support. 

• Strong scientific writing, critical appraisal, project management, facilitation, communication, judgment, and attention-to-detail skills in a highly matrixed environment. 

• Regular and reliable attendance. 

• Additional responsibilities assigned by the supervisor or manager. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or higher in public health, epidemiology, health services research, clinical research, pharmacy, nursing, research administration, or a related scientific or clinical field. 
• 8-10 years related work experience
• Experience serving as an investigator, research program manager, research administrator, scientific reviewer, or mentor for clinician-led, graduate-level, residency, fellowship, or practice-based research. 
• Experience administering advanced-degree pathways, clinician research development, tuition-supported education, fellowship, residency, or workforce-retention programs. 
• Training or certification in Good Clinical Practice, Human Subjects Research, Responsible Conduct of Research, project or program management, or research administration. 
• Experience within a payer, provider, pharmacy, life sciences, healthcare technology, academic, or value-based care organization. 
• Experience with research and portfolio-management platforms, dashboards, workflow tools, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, or comparable systems. 
• Experience with real-world evidence, health economics and outcomes research, epidemiology, or health services research communications. 
• Demonstrated record of authorship on peer-reviewed publications, abstracts, whitepapers, or other scientific communications utilizing real-world data.

Education
Bachelor's degree required, Master's 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 company’s equity award program. 
 

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

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