Manager, Pharmacy Payer Strategy Development jobs in United States
cer-icon
Apply on Employer Site
company-logo

Walgreens · 8 hours ago

Manager, Pharmacy Payer Strategy Development

Walgreens is a prominent pharmacy and health services company that serves nearly 9 million customers daily across its stores. The role focuses on executing segment planning and supporting account-level plan refinement while developing analytics to drive business development efforts in the healthcare segment.

Consumer GoodsHealth CarePharmaceuticalRetail

Responsibilities

Leads execution of planning for a Healthcare segment. Delivers assigned segment planning in Company planning cycle
Collects and creates key data and industry intelligence to support negotiation and management of pharmacy lines of business
Assists product development in the creation of non-dispensing products by providing segment insights from payor conversations
Executes the kick-off and post-mortem process for contract renewal seasons
Provides renewal updates into weekly updates for working teams and leadership
Accountable for delivery of program planning for assigned segment that support meeting/exceeding plan revenue and profit targets
Ensures that major Account Plans developed by Account Team are aligned with assigned Healthcare segment priorities, provides support in selected areas
Responsible for development/ access initiatives in segment, including internal preparation, external engagement with clients, delivery (working with relevant account team, as applicable)
Responsible for execution of segment strategies with pull through for all retail offerings to ensure maximum revenue growth for the Company
Partners with marketing pharmacy insights group to obtain customer-driven metrics to identify product and services that are both feasible and profitable for the Company. Provides business case to Segment leaders to support data-driven decisions on when/where to scale-up proof-of-concept differentiated customer products and services. Ensures data flow of research from several channels, including patients, payers, and healthcare providers
Provides business case to Segment leaders to support prioritization and selection of investment areas for new value propositions; Direct Segment Initiatives, Value Proposition, and/or Operation teams to ensure delivery
Ensures value proposition development aligns to strategy. Drives execution on products and services while utilizing common product/service platforms, where possible
Ensures delivery of targeted patient experience for designated segment across Company channels, balancing segment value potential and cost-to-serve. Evaluates the actual experience in each channel and provide input to channel leaders as needed to enhance the patient experience
Serves as subject matter expert proactively provides perspectives and ideas on current and emerging key issues affecting segment

Qualification

Strategic planningFinancial analysisHealthcare industry experienceMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft PowerPointData visualizationAnalytics supportPresentation developmentAdvanced databasesLeadership experience

Required

Bachelor's degree and at least 2 years of experience in strategic planning, strategy consulting, financial analysis and/or third party pharmacy in pricing, sales, marketing or business development OR a High School diploma/GED and at least 5 years of experience in strategic planning, strategy consulting, financial analysis and/or third party pharmacy in pricing, sales, marketing or business development
Experience contributing analytics or planning support to strategic business planning processes
Experience developing assigned parts of internal and external presentations
Experience executing and quality controlling analytics (for example: running an analysis for a specific question and returning defect-free answers)
Advanced level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using AVERAGE function, merging and centering cells, printing centered page and/or creating a pivot table)
Advanced level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: changing picture styles, customizing animation and/or setting automatic slide timings)
At least 1 year of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross- functional team leadership
Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes ((within state and out of state)

Preferred

Master's Degree/MBA
At least 2 years consulting experience as an analyst or above at a global management consulting firm
Experience scoping and completing analytics
Healthcare industry experience in any sector of the US market (e.g., pharma, payer, provider)
Experience with advanced databases (for example: coding SAS, SQL, etc.)
Experience with data visualization (for example: Tableau, PROS, etc.)
Experience writing and or delivering presentations to senior leaders in an organization

Company

Walgreens

company-logo
Walgreens is a pharmacy, health, and wellness service center that offers trained infusion nurses and pharmacists to treat patients. It is a sub-organization of Walgreens Boots Alliance.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$25M
Key Investors
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)
2024-07-23Grant· $25M

Leadership Team

leader-logo
Bala Visalatha
Chief Experience and Growth Officer
linkedin
leader-logo
Barry Hanen
Director, Payments and Card Services
linkedin
Company data provided by crunchbase