Mgr Pharmacy Strategy

Health Care Service Corporation•Chicago, IL

3d•$102,000 - $184,300

About The Position

This position is responsible for leading team that owns program and performance management of the medical drug portfolio. This role will provide oversight, institute standard performance evaluation templates, processes, provide feedback and guidance to performance managers and participate in medical drug management strategy with the medical drug leadership team. This team will also act as liaison to the network team for medical drug components of provider contracts and partner with the national accounts and sales teams to build and modify HCSC’s medical drug value story.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and 5 years experience in health care, health insurance, or strategic consulting environment
1 year management experience
Strategy Development/Planning/Implementation: Knowledge of corporate strategy and/or transformation core skill sets; experience formulating, planning, and/or implementing strategy and transformative efforts.
Analysis/Synthesis/Insight Generation: Ability to conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis, provide insights and implications, inform decision making, and make recommendations/prioritize new opportunities to pursue.
Critical Thinking/Problem Solving: Ability to proactively identify and resolve complex problems with some oversight.
Collaboration and Interpersonal Effectiveness: Ability to build strong connections with people and teams, drive results by working across the matrixed environment, and work directly with leadership with some oversight.
Communication Skills: Ability to communicate effectively through verbal, written and visual channels.
Ability to work within a very fast-paced, quickly evolving organization and manage multiple, complex priorities.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree such as MBA, MHA, PharmD, MSN
Experience Monitoring KPIs, program operational metrics, financial performance, analyze initiative/program clinical, operational and financial data to identify trends and gaps, conduct root cause analysis for underperforming measures, identification of potential program improvements, synthesizing all information and creating reports and visuals for leadership and providing regular updates to leadership, make recommendations and plan of action for improvement activities or sunset, etc.
Experience with corporate strategy, growth strategy, product strategy, or business case development
Experience in development and implementation of value creation/cost of care/affordability initiatives

Responsibilities

Lead a team responsible for program and performance management of the medical drug portfolio.
Provide oversight, institute standard performance evaluation templates and processes.
Provide feedback and guidance to performance managers.
Participate in medical drug management strategy with the medical drug leadership team.
Act as a liaison to the network team for medical drug components of provider contracts.
Partner with national accounts and sales teams to build and modify HCSC’s medical drug value story.