Pharmacy Consultant - Senior Director

About the role

The role involves delivering tangible and measurable contributions around pharmacy innovation that can be leveraged nationally. Also serves as part of a team of consultants as the lead pharmacy strategic partner and trusted advisor to large, complex clients in the design and management of their pharmacy benefit programs.

Responsibilities

• Deliver tangible and measurable contributions around pharmacy innovation that can be leveraged nationally.
• Spearhead the development of new pharmacy approaches; collaborate with executive leadership at vendors and clients in creation of the next generation of solutions.
• Meet with vendors to understand the opportunities for strategic partnerships and pharmacy solution opportunities including potential for technology enablement.
• Contribute to marketing of WTW by speaking at conferences, writing articles and otherwise promoting the company.
• Pharmacy benefit consulting on a national basis to complex, forward-thinking employers.
• Drive new relationships and sales.
• Design and execute on innovative engagement design and approaches.
• Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM) vendor procurement and negotiation.
• Audits of PBM performance (financial and operational).
• Plan analysis, design, cost-savings and member engagement strategies.
• Strategy for effectively managing pharmacy benefits aligned with broader health care goals.
• Specialty drug management.
• Materially grow pharmacy benefits revenue through serving as the pharmacy benefits expert in new client pursuits by crafting and selling solutions to meet their needs.
• Partner closely with the financial, actuarial and analytics, health equity and wellbeing, and other related cross functional WTW teams to define a multi-year strategy for expanding the comprehensiveness of our integrated pharmacy and clinical offerings.
• Provide support for the Rx Overlay and for ConnectMedRx, focusing on growth for these two solutions.
• Drive the growth and expansion of GDC support for pharmacy consulting work, freeing up senior colleagues for direct client support.
• Support talent development within Rx Consulting.
• Own product research, development, deployment and outcomes measurement within the assigned time period and with an assigned goal.
• Contribute pharmacy and related perspectives to broader health and benefits strategy and growth.
• Support strategic partnerships, including launch, maintenance and enhancements of partnership offerings.
• Demonstrate extensive leadership ability by directly managing and/or mentoring other consultants.

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience and success in the design/management of large group pharmacy benefit plans gained in a consulting or brokerage environment.
• Proven ability to generate revenue.
• Track record of success in managing and growing large client relationships.
• Proven experience in successfully leading a global team and projects, and strategic partnership development and growth.
• An executive presence with polished and well developed written and oral communication skills with an ability to communicate complex ideas simply and effectively.
• A dynamic strategic thinker not afraid to challenge the status quo by asking hard questions and deconstructing and rebuilding current solutions as necessary.
• Superior ability to influence and collaborate with senior management and work across all levels of an organization as well as cross functional teams.
• Interest and aptitude in keeping abreast of the latest developments in pharmacy and broader health and benefits plan strategy and contributing to the development of new tools and approaches.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Availability to travel.
• Bachelor’s of Pharmacy or PharmD degree preferred.
• For pharmacists, actively licensed in home state and in good standing.
• State Life and Health license required within 90 days of joining.