Lead Director - Pharmacy Trade Products Specialty Strategy

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Position Summary

As the Lead Director on the Pharma Trade Product team, your primary responsibilities will include developing new and innovative specialty programs and services from ideation to execution in collaboration with trade and drug manufacturer partners. Emphasis on strategizing and driving services/insights on programs, products, and opportunities; understanding the specialty landscape around programs, data and analytics, product design, end-to-end product build and execution, strategic partnerships with drug manufacturers, and rapid business case evaluation.
 

You will support the development and execution of strategic and tactical solutions, enhancements, patient journey mapping, and segment analyses, as well as align internal stakeholders on progress and next steps. You will be focused on the flawless execution of innovative solutions as well as oversite of direct reports.

In this role you will:

• Support and lead the strategy and end to end development of specialty pharmacy and enterprise programs for specialty disease states in collaboration with trade and drug manufacturers including defining project requirements, project plans, process definitions, commercialization, and sales strategies, defining success measures, and ongoing product improvement.
• Collaborate closely with the organization leadership team, data and analytics teams and other functions to drive Services and Data Insights products, to identify and understand new use cases, and build/lead their implementation.
• Develop rapid business case development leveraging both internal and external sources of information to make rapid business decisions.
• Design, construct, and execute complex analyses to meet business case requirements.
• Engage cross-functionally across the organization to design solutions, develop test and implementation plans, drive results, and resolve issues encountered by the team
• In partnership with Specialty Trade, Clinical Managers and Specialty Pharmacy Product teams, strategize, create, consultation, and or refine value statements, business/initiative proposals, Legal vetting and approval, Scope of Services, Fair Market Value, and Statements of Work
• Build, execute, and report product requirements & KPIs for internal and external teams.
• Develop internal product training and other business release management related artifact.
• Deep dive on communication and activation channels, along with services for patients, providers, and payers to support Trade Strategy non data product, market research, consultation on non-assigned work, reports, internal documentation of processes, guardrails, etc.
• Be accountable as a product owner to monitor product performance and proactively identify and address issues.
• Lead product roadmap through incorporating competitive intelligence, leveraging resources and knowledge across team to deliver results.
• Lead and be inspirational to direct reports.
• Think enterprise and join forces with others to ensure we have the best patient experience and outcomes possible.
• Interpret data to build actionable insights to improve the product or identify new opportunities and be able to speak to those insights internally or externally in a clear and simple way

Required Qualifications

• 10 years’ experience with specialty pharmacy or biopharmaceutical industry, including 3 years implementing patient services or programs.
• Experience with spreadsheets, databases, and presentation software, including a strong working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Critical thinking with ability to manage and construct complex models to meet business case requirements with superior analytical skills and problem-solving skills.
• 10 years’ experience of strong diagnostic capabilities: ability to work with cross functional teams to identify key areas for opportunity within a brief period of time.
• 5 Years product development experience
• Experience with multitasking, prioritizing work, and effective communication that is clear, logical, and consistent.
• High energy and wo