Strategic Planning Principal Evernorth Hybrid

SUMMARY:

The Principal Drug Trends and Pipeline Strategy will be responsible for the development and execution of clinical strategies across multiple therapeutic areas to create market differentiating solutions and drive market adoption and growth. The Principal plays a key role in ensuring alignment and collaboration amongst cross-functional business units throughout the Supply Chain organization. The Principal will leverage analytical and clinical expertise along with strong healthcare industry knowledge to conduct strategic analyses contribute to enterprise planning and collaborate across clinical product operations analytics actuarial and finance teams to identify new opportunities expandcapabilities and strengthen competitive positioning and support long-term strategic priorities.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct external and internal reviews of the healthcare landscape (e.g. drug pipeline emerging trends regulatory activities and competitive dynamics) to identify trends opportunities and gaps

• Evaluate the performance of internal clinical strategies to determine enhancement

• Synthesize internal and external insights into innovative and actionable recommendations that drive enterprise objectives exceed clients needs and enable differentiation in the marketplace

• Utilize internal data and modeling to evaluate financial impacts of strategies

• Build strategic partnerships with key stakeholders to achieve key initiatives and goals

• Understand and partner with the Negotiator Team to negotiate contracting language to protect formulary and trend solutions from unintended conflicts across Commercial Medicare and product offerings that depend on those contracts

• Monitor strategy performance and outcomes following implementation

• Develop presentations and strategic updates that synthesize complex information for senior leadership

• Establish and execute internal SOPs and playbooks for the team.

IDEAL CANDIDATES WILL HAVE A COMBINATION OF THE FOLLOWING:

• Bachelors degree required; advanced degree (e.g. MBA MHA PharmD) preferred

• Licensed pharmacist in good standing if degree is Pharmacy

• Minimum of 8 years with experience in healthcare strategy (e.g. pharmaceutical contracting analytics formulary development product development business development)

• Experience using financial modeling tools including experience in interpreting and reviewing financial modeling results to evaluate the financial impacts of contract changes

• Strong financial acumen

• Demonstrated expertise in clinical strategy and healthcare innovation

• Knowledge of PBM industry managed care healthcare industry

• Comfortable working with complex data sets and queries

• Exceptional Strategic thinker with a track record of anticipating trends and translating insights into actionable plans.

• Experience working effectively in a matrixed organization with strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills

• Strong detail orientation organization and management of multiple parallel projects with fluid timelines

• Demonstrated initiative with commitment and ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

About Evernorth Health Services

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race color age disability sex childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran or military status religion national origin ancestry marital or familial status genetic information status with regard to public assistance citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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