Few people have sat where today's benefits leaders sit. Candace Jodice spent more than two decades running benefits programmes at enterprise scale, including one of the most complex post-merger harmonisations in US corporate benefits history. At Sword Health, she brings that experience directly to the benefits leaders evaluating Sword, as a peer who has made the same calls they are being asked to make. Her work spans benefits strategy, ROI validation, vendor selection, and the practical reality of building programmes that hold up under CFO scrutiny and serve employees across every income level.
Candace led the CVS–Aetna benefits redesign, delivering a fully unified programme for 300,000+ employees within two years of deal close. She also designed and phased in a full replacement HDHP programme that produced double-digit cost reduction whilst maintaining health outcomes and medication adherence.
Her experience includes building enterprise-wide change management campaigns across geographically dispersed, multi-industry workforces, and designing affordability programmes for lower-wage workers with cash-flow constraints, including HSA on demand, salary-based HSA contributions, and $0 preventive drug formularies.
Benefits programmes are not just financial instruments. They are a signal to employees about whether the organisation actually sees them. That belief shapes how Candace thinks about every conversation she has with a benefits leader who is trying to do right by their people without losing the room when the CFO walks in.
Education
Candace holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Resource Management from Bridgewater State University.
Experience
Before joining Sword Health, Candace spent more than 25 years at CVS Health, where she served as Head of Benefits overseeing a programme covering 300,000+ employees and a benefits budget exceeding $3B annually. Her tenure included leading eight post-merger benefits harmonisations, designing enterprise-wide communication and change management programmes, and building affordability initiatives for lower-wage workers. At Sword Health, Candace leads Benefit Strategy, working directly with benefits leaders who are evaluating Sword as a peer adviser with firsthand experience on both sides of the table.
