Associate Director - Pharmacy - Clinical Solutions

Job Family:

Strategy & Transformation Consulting

Travel Required:

Up to 50%

Clearance Required:

None

What You Will Do:

We are seeking experienced clinical pharmacy professionals to support and enhance our Pharmacy Practice. We are looking for professionals with experience in the following: Specialty Pharmacy, PBM design, outpatient infusion, drug expense management, 340B optimization, pharmacy enterprise development, and service line integration.

In this Associate Director role, you will work extensively with leading clients, utilizing your deep clinical expertise in Pharmacy, business process improvement skills, and business development skills to achieve personal and professional success for our clients.

 Specific Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate expertise in the design and optimization of Specialty and Retail Pharmacy and PBM strategies that yield capture and health plan cost management.

• Demonstrate expertise and understanding of end-to-end pharmacy business processes.

• Conceptualizes pharmacy related solution design, provides structure for deliverable, builds SOW, execution plan and overseas or manages multiple work streams to get results intended.

• Heavily contributes to proposal development and support of sales

• Offer strategies for the effective and affordable use of pharmaceuticals across the continuum of care.

• Evaluate pharmaceutical distribution processes in the hospital, ambulatory and outpatient settings.  Include review of pharmacy technology and automation.

• Provides leadership and guidance to healthcare teams for designing formulary and benefit design for both inpatient and outpatient care

• Analyze work flow, staffing patterns, organizational design and impact of technology and automation.  Develop and implement initiatives to increase efficiency of the pharmacy workforce.

• Identify opportunities to improve pharmacy revenue cycle, e.g., pricing strategies, implementation of 340B pricing program, Medicaid carve-outs, and CDM review.

• Work independently in client facing situations and guide others in the design, development, and implementation of innovative pharmacy solutions, or design and implementation of improvements to existing processes in the pharmacy.

• Work with teams through the assessment, problem definition, solution development, issue and risk identification/mitigation, and work plan development to ensure quality results that exceed our client’s expectations.

• Identify value creation opportunities for a project and manage financial assessment to develop business case and validate alternatives in the pharmacy.

• Ability to work collaboratively, in a team-oriented environment to deliver innovative solutions to our clients.

What You Will Need:

• Experienced Pharmacists with a minimum of 7 - 10 years of relevant consulting or work experience

• Previous pharmacy management consulting experience with a leading firm

• Knowledge of 340B clinical requirements and operations assessment and optimization principals and concepts related to the pharmacy

• Specialty Pharmacy design and implementation experience

• Comprehensive Outpatient Infusion strategy design experience (HOPD, non-HOPD, Home)

• Experience with analytics and value assessment for business case development and validation of alternative solutions

• Experience with communicating with all levels of staff

• Experience leading teams

• Ability to independently perform analyses of complex therapeutic/contracting issues, e.g. colony stimulating factor scenarios, calculates savings, and defends savings analysis to pharmacist peers and physicians

• Ability to perform analyses related to opportunities in the pharmacy

• Current licensed Pharmacist is required

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• PharmD preferred

• Masters degree preferred

• Payer PBM experience

• Pharmacy Residency experience

• Six Sigma Certification

The annual salary range for this position is $144,400.00-$216,600.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include: