Senior Benefits Consultant - Pharmacy

Job Description

This job is responsible for the design, delivery, financial management, and administration of health, welfare, work/life, pharmacy and retirement programs. Key responsibilities include independently managing and evaluating program cost, effectiveness, and usage, and recommending improvements. Job expectations include applying expert judgment, leading strategic initiatives, and influencing benefit outcomes across the organization.

The Sr. Benefits Consultant will join the Global Benefits team that recently was awarded 2025 Best employers – excellence in Health & Well-being by the Business Group on Health. This individual will report to the Head of Benefits and be responsible for executing on the Pharmacy Benefits Strategy and driving all aspects of the design of benefit programs that support the health and wellness of employees and their family members, in the U.S. which may include but not limited to national medical plans for active employees and retirees.

The Sr. Benefits Consultant must have the ability to independently analyze data, market trends and business needs to evaluate cost effectiveness and implementation of existing programs to design recommended improvements and develop business cases of new programs. The role requires subject matter expertise in the design, implementation, and management of pharmacy benefits programs at large employers. Experience managing multiple work products simultaneously, strong communication skills, and ability to identify and work with multiple key stakeholders is critical.

• Benefits Design point of contact for designing, managing and implementing pharmacy benefits
• Manage and oversee all third parties and strategies to ensure program design and business objectives are being met.
• Responsible for assessing ongoing regulatory changes and how they impact pharmacy benefit offerings.
• Partner with multiple suppliers and internal partners (Benefits Service Delivery, Life Event Services, Legal, Communications, Finance, Sourcing, HR Reporting teams, HR leaders, etc.) to ensure pharmacy programs are delivered flawlessly to our teammates.

• Partner with multiple third-party service providers, platform administrator, Health & Insurance carriers as well as internal partners (Benefits Service Delivery, Life Event Services, Legal, Communications, Finance, Sourcing, HR Reporting teams, HR leaders, etc.) to ensure processes and services are delivered flawlessly to our teammates.
• Evaluate market trends and emerging products and approaches to drive pharmacy benefits.
• Ability to understand, translate and apply data analysis and market trends in the development of business cases to solve existing or emerging opportunities.
• Develop business cases to present to key stakeholders.
• Partner across multiple teams to ensure impacts, compliance requirements, business needs, and employee experience are identified in all program design recommendations.
• Ensure required regulations, and compliance activities being executed.
• Participation with vendor audits, claims reviews, annual meetings, development of business requirement documents and employee engagement approaches.
• Ability to understand, translate and apply changing legal and regulatory environment impacting programs.
• Drive change initiatives and implementations

• Minimum 7-10 years’ of Health Care Benefits and related Pharmacy experience either through Consulting, Brokerage, Insurance companies or employer. Ideally 3+ years of delivery experience of pharmacy benefits for a large organization.
• Experience with pharmacy market checks, annual audits, and program optimization
• Depth and knowledge of pharmacy benefit industry, market shifts and complex dynamics
• Must have excellent oral & written communication skills; ability to articulate complex concepts to a non-specialist audience.
• Ability to demonstrate facilitation, client service orientation, leadership, influence, teamwork, and collaboration across multiple different partners, both internal and external.
• Strong vendor relationship experience.
• Strong data analysis, used to help with industry benchmarking and build/develop business…