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Director, Pharmacy Value Analysis

4 months ago

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States Optum Full time

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with care, pharmacy benefits, data, and resources they need to feel their best. Here you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits, and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communicates we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring, Connecting Growing together.

The Director of Pharmacy Value Analysis is accountable to deliver savings, solutions, and high-end user satisfaction on >$1B pharmaceutical products and services procured at Care Delivery Organizations (CDOs). This is achieved through leading key partnerships between Optum Health Care Delivery Organizations and Optum Rx, with clinical, operations and supply chain teams. In addition to leveraging value analysis, best practices, and non-acute supply chain solutions. The person in this role is a content expert in the pharmaceutical category for value analysis of supplies and services, suppliers, solutions, and industry best practices serving non-acute healthcare.

This is a high visibility role where influencing key stakeholders will be critical to success. The successful candidate must be passionate about customer service and a service first culture, driving value and performance improvements related to Optum Health's Pharmacy category in cost and service. The ideal candidate is an experienced leader in pharmaceutical value analysis with keen knowledge of all value drivers with group purchasing organizations, distributers, and manufacturers.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Demonstrates strong collaboration skills and a service excellence / servant leadership mentality
  • Lives and incorporates the UHG values in their daily work
  • Demonstrates emotional resilience in stress situations; maintains a positive attitude when encountering resistance or setbacks; actively supports organizational change
  • Understands external market and industry trends with focus on supply availability
  • Has deep experience in vendor relationships and work collaboratively with partners
  • Displays strong speaking skills with ability to know the measures & share with operations, business, national leaders, market presidents and finance
  • Accountable to enterprise for supply chain Pharmacy performance, strategy, operating model and KPIs
  • Engage directly with manufacturers and distributers to drive contracting strategies
  • Enable savings, quality, and service improvement for Care Delivery Organizations through leading complex Value Analysis and spend optimization initiatives on pharmaceutical products and services
  • Drive supplier consolidation and standardized formularies resulting in improved cost, service, and quality
  • Deliver value by embedding with Care Delivery Organization Supply Chain and Pharmaceutical teams to deliver tailored solutions, capabilities, and support addressing their top operational objectives
  • Act as a content expert on behalf of OptumCare Supply Chain teams to ensure support from matrixed UHG and Optum teams deliver value with each interaction
  • Utilize clinical product category knowledge and critical thinking, reviews and assesses applicable financial, clinical, and operational data, as well as evidence-based literature to assist teams in evaluating new and existing supplies and technology
  • Provide insight into supply shortages and guidance for product substitutions

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

  • 8+ years of procurement and/or supply chain experience
  • 4+ years of pharmaceutical focused supply chain functions
  • Spend managed exceeds $10M annually
  • Demonstrated successful participation in pharmaceutical RFPs and contracts

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Project Management skills
  • Knowledgeable in:
    • Contracting, Materials Management, Distribution, Inventory Management, Logistics, Vendor Management
    • EMR, ERP, Inventory Systems, and Dispensing software
    • Pharmaceutical and Pharmacy Technology
  • Ability to work independently
  • Ability to interpret analytics and take appropriate action
  • Demonstrated ability to build and manage a scaled supply chain operating model with industry-leading solutions and capabilities
  • Service oriented servant leader focused on exceeding customer expectations with the ability to influence all levels of Care Delivery and Supplier organizations
  • Bias towards action and results with the ability to resolve conflicts and remove barriers
  • Excellent communicator verbal and written
  • Demonstrated ability to create value for customers in the form of savings, efficiency, and quality improvement

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $122,100 to $234,700 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.



At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.