Senior Director, Pharmacy Consulting

Location: New York

As a Pharmacy Senior Director, you will contribute to new strategic and innovative directions for our pharmacy business while leading large, highly visible client engagements. You will serve as a key voice to the marketplace of one of the world’s leading HR consulting firms and have the ability to contribute to the evolution of pharmacy and broader health care delivery in North America.

You will grow our solutions portfolio with a focus on driving client value and revenue.  The ideal candidate brings influence and strategic thinking to address unique client needs in the pharmacy space and to more broadly evolve our practice.  You will collaborate with a strong team of highly experienced consultants within the pharmacy practice as well as engage in cross functional activities with other health and benefits colleagues and subject matter experts who together deliver unparalleled value to our clients and the broader pharmacy community.  

A pharmacist degree and license in good standing is preferred for this role, or significant pharmacy consulting experience.

The Role:

Deliver tangible and measurable contributions around pharmacy innovation that can be leveraged nationally.  Also serve as part of a team of consultants as the lead pharmacy strategic partner and trusted advisor to large, complex clients in the design and management of their pharmacy benefit programs including:  Spearhead the development of new pharmacy approaches; collaborate with executive leadership at vendors and clients in creation of the next generation of solutions Meet with vendors to understand the opportunities for strategic partnerships and pharmacy solution opportunities including potential for technology enablement.

Contribute to marketing of WTW by speaking at conferences, writing articles and otherwise promoting the company

Pharmacy benefit consulting on a national basis to complex, forward-thinking employers. Role includes:

Driving new relationships and sales

Designing and executing on innovative engagement design and approaches

Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM) vendor procurement and negotiation Audits of PBM performance (financial and operational)
Plan analysis, design, cost-savings and member engagement strategies

Strategy for effectively managing pharmacy benefits aligned with broader health care goals

Specialty drug management

Materially grow pharmacy benefits revenue through serving as the pharmacy benefits expert in new client pursuits by crafting and selling solutions to meet their needs Partner closely with the financial, actuarial and analytics, health equity and wellbeing, and other related cross functional WTW teams to define a multi-year strategy for expanding the comprehensiveness of our integrated pharmacy and clinical offerings

Own product research, development, deployment and outcomes measurement within the assigned time period and with an assigned goal Contribute pharmacy and related perspectives to broader health and benefits strategy and growth

Support strategic partnerships, including launch, maintenance and enhancements of partnership offerings

Demonstrate extensive leadership ability by directly managing and/or mentoring other consultants 10+ years’ experience and success in the design/management of large group pharmacy benefit plans gained in a consulting or brokerage environment

Proven ability to generate revenue

Track record of success in managing and growing large client relationships

Proven experience in successfully leading a global team and projects, and strategic partnership development and growth

An executive presence with polished and well developed written and oral communication skills with an ability to communicate complex ideas simply and effectivelyA dynamic strategic thinker not afraid to…