Head of Payer Relations, Amazon Pharmacy

Amazon Pharmacy Payer Relations is seeking a driven talented and experienced to play a critical role in B2B Business Development working with large healthcare organizations.

This position will focus on managing strategic opportunities and partnerships on behalf of Amazon Pharmacy to drive growth and foster patient-centric initiatives for health insurance organizations pharmacy benefit managers and other strategic partners. This role will be instrumental in fostering pharmacy provider relationships with payer organizations that desire innovation in their end-to-end member experience. This role will manage critical relationships with external business partners to create go-to-market products and services that will drive growth and innovation across the pharmaceutical industry.

This role will spearhead business development solutions for Amazon Pharmacy payer strategy driving key growth and profitability goals of the business. Within the first year this individual contributor will support and grow existing relationships and strongly influence the business development teams trajectory.







Key job responsibilities
- Partner with counterparts on the Health Insurers team to create a differentiated member experience.

- Identify opportunities to drive member education and adoption of Amazon Pharmacy

- Identify areas of friction in the Amazon Pharmacy payer experience and partner with internal stakeholders to fix
- Drive RFP and contracting administration
- Strong LPs include: Deep Dive Customer Obsession (both partner and their members) Earn Trust Deliver Results

A day in the life
Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to optimize the health insurance plans member pharmacy experience while also driving member adoption of Amazon Pharmacy

About the team
Payer relations business development is part of Amazon Pharmacy Partener Services representing Amazon pharmacy with key relationships for Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) Manage Care Organizations (MCOs) Health Insurers (Health Plans and industry consultants.

- 10 years of developing negotiating and executing business agreements experience
- 10 years of professional or military experience
- 10 years of solving problems with technology in the Healthcare/Life Sciences Industry experience
- 10 years of Go-To-Market Business Development Sales or Consulting experience
- 7 years of working with Data & AI related technologies including but not limited to AI/ML GenAI Analytics Database and/or Storage experience
- Bachelors degree
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level

- Experience as a founder or executive focused on related segments or as a practice leader or business unit owner
- Experience selling to Fortune 1000 or Global 2000 organizations

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at MA Boston - 176100.00 - 238200.00 USD annually
USA TX Austin - 176100.00 - 238200.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 176100.00 - 238200.00 USD annually