Pharmacist, Principal

Your Role The Pharmacy Markets, Products, Analytics and Strategies team is a critical area within Blue Shield Pharmacy Services to provide Product and Market strategies to support affordability and quality objectives. With the team, the Strategic Consultative Analytics area drive consultative analytics to facilitate strategy decision and opportunity identification for critical pharmacy road map initiatives. The Principal Pharmacist, Strategic Consultative Analytics will report to the Sr. Manager, Strategic Consultative Analytics. In this role you will play a key role in leading and collaborating cross-functionally to analyze and monitor the medical and pharmacy contract administration effectiveness. You will lead the financial analyses to optimize drug manufacturer contracting and reimbursement strategies that will lower the cost of health care and optimize outcomes and opportunities. Your Work In this role, you will: Develop, analyze & monitor drug manufacturer data to identify opportunities to lower cost of healthcare and to monitor and report out on performance and outcomes Perform financial assessment of medical and pharmacy contracting strategies and provide recommendations Collaborate with clinical teams and utilize data analytics to optimize formulary and benefit strategies Develop financial modeling to identify trends, to support forecasting of savings and opportunities, and to support strategy and decision making Create dashboards to track and manage performance metrics related to drug manufacturer contract and reimbursement opportunities Serve as a BSC Pharmacy Services contact and subject matter expert to stakeholders, and manage external relationships (vendors, clients) related to assigned work Leverage various data sources and reports to create executive summaries and actionable plans to support performance management Support strategic initiative and innovation planning and lead select initiative implementation as assigned.