CVS Health

Lead Director, Patient Experience

CVS Health • $100K — $231K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Illinois, US
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred (MBA, MHA, MPH, MPP)
  • 4+ years of leadership experience in healthcare operations
  • 7+ years in strategy and planning
  • Proven ability to create value and deliver measurable impact
  • Strong business acumen linking initiatives to financial outcomes
  • Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
  • Experience with communication operations or employee experience technology preferred

Responsibilities

  • Lead patient experience strategic initiatives to improve NPS and CAHPS performance
  • Accountable for achieving annual NPS targets
  • Develop and execute the patient experience strategic plan
  • Support operational partners in deploying best practices
  • Collaborate with Enterprise CX team to identify and strategize on PX opportunities
  • Serve as subject matter expert for payer QBRs and CAHPS sessions
  • Oversee the strategic roadmap for patient portal enrollment and experience

Benefits

  • Mission-focused career impacting health outcomes for Medicare patients
  • Paid vacation, sick time, and 401K match options
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance
  • Leadership development and continuing education stipends
  • Flexible work environments and new centers
  • Opportunities for rapid advancement and high responsibility
Full Job Description
Company: Oak Street Health

Title: Lead Director, Patient Experience

Location: Remote

Role Description:

Oak Street Health®, a part of CVS Health, helps older adults stay healthier and live fuller lives through our 230 centers across 27 states. Our value-based care model helps us consistently deliver better patient experiences and outcomes.

As a Lead Director, Patient Experience you will play a critical role in supporting our Oak Street Health patients, providers and business by improving patient experience at Oak Street Health. The Lead Director will oversee scaled initiatives and capabilities with the aim of improving patient experience (NPS), engaged Oak St. Health membership, and STARs performance through payer CAHPS programs.

The Lead Director of PX will partner with cross-functional business leaders help us achieve our organizational performance goals and foster member engagement. This individual will also own the strategic agenda for improving patient experience at Oak St. Health. From opportunity identification through execution, this leader will ensure Oak Street Health continues to make stepwise improvements in experience, year over year. They will also serve as the primary liaison with payer partners on CAHPS strategy and performance.

This individual will oversee a growing team of ~2-5 team members overseeing corporate strategy functions. This role is highly cross-functional, and will work closely with other leaders across the organization to identify, design, plan, execute, monitor, and sustain change efforts including but not limited to: central service operations, field operations, patient engagement, technology, product, population health, learning, human resources, manage care operations and other teams to achieve organizational goals.

This role reports up to the AVP, Patient Experience & Field Execution.

Core Responsibilities:

Patient experience strategy:
  • Responsible for all major patient experience strategic initiatives. Deploy Sr. Manager and Analyst to drive improvements in NPS, net membership, and/or CAHPS performance. Translate impact to primary KPIs and economic value for the business
  • Accountable for organization's NPS performance against annual targets
  • Responsible for developing, organizing, and execution of PX strategic plan to maintain and/or improve patient experience at OSH
  • Support operational partners (Field and Central) with identifying and deploying experiential best practices
  • Partner with Enterprise CX team to identify trends and thematic PX opportunities and synthesize into strategies


CAHPS performance and strategy:
  • Serve as PX SME for Payer QBRs and dedicated CAHPS performance sessions
  • Develop CAHPS strategic plans for high priority payer quality ladders


Portal enrollment and digital experience:
  • Oversee strategic roadmap for patient portal enrollment and portal experience


What are we looking for?

  • Bachelor's degree required, Master's degree (e.g., MBA, MHA, MPH, MPP) preferred
  • Minimum of 4 years of leadership experience in healthcare operations, with proven experience leading large scale change initiatives (enterprise-level strategic initiatives or projects directly affecting multi-million dollar budgets)
  • Minimum of 7 years experience in strategy and planning
  • Proven ability to identify opportunities, create value, and deliver measurable impact at scale.
  • Strong business acumen with the ability to translate experiential initiatives into business and financial outcomes.
  • Exceptional communication, collaboration, and executive influence skills.
  • Demonstrated success influencing decisions and driving outcomes across all levels of an organization.
  • Strong critical thinking, judgment, and problem-solving skills in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
  • Experience with communication operations and/or employee experience technology preferred.
  • Self-starter with a high degree of adaptability and accountability.
  • Ability to travel 5-10%.


Oak Street Health Benefits:Mission-focused career impacting change and measurably improving health outcomes for medicare patients

Paid vacation, sick time, and investment/retirement 401K match options

Health insurance, vision, and dental benefits

Opportunities for leadership development and continuing education stipends

New centers and flexible work environments

Opportunities for high levels of responsibility and rapid advancement

What does being "Oaky" look like?Radiating positive energy

Assuming good intentions

Creating an unmatched patient experience

Driving clinical excellence

Taking ownership and delivering results

Being relentlessly determined

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$100,000.00 - $231,540.00

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

This full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

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

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 12/25/2026

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.

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Omnicare provides comprehensive pharmaceutical services to patients and providers across the United States. As the market-leader in professional pharmacy, related consulting and data management services for skilled nursing, assisted living and other chronic care settings, Omnicare leverages its unparalleled clinical insight into the geriatric market along with some of the industry's most innovative technological capabilities to the benefit of its long-term care customers. Omnicare also provides key commercialization services for the bio-pharmaceutical industry through its Specialty Care Group.

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