Blue Shield Of California

Director, Pharmacy Operations

Blue Shield Of California$140K — $180K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • College degree or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years in health plan or pharmacy benefit manager operations.
  • 6+ years managing teams in pharmacy claims processing and vendor management.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially for technical subjects.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams and discussions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead team to ensure accurate and timely pharmacy benefit operations across all business lines.
  • Monitor performance and resolve issues involving multiple vendors, including IT and pharmacies.
  • Provide consultative services for escalated pharmacy-related questions from members and clients.
  • Develop performance metrics to report on and explain pharmacy operations effectiveness.
  • Negotiate with vendors to resolve operational issues and ensure adherence to contracts.
  • Mentor team members to build a high-performing workplace.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with two in-office days per week.
  • Flexible in-office time for employees over 50 miles from the office.
  • Opportunities for mentorship and leadership development.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Your Role

The Pharmacy Operations team provides management and end-to-end oversight of Pharmacy operations, incident management, and driving resolution from identification to resolution within a matrixed environment. The Director, Pharmacy Operations will report to the Senior Vice President / Chief Pharmacy Officer. In this role you will lead a team who are responsible for providing excellent pharmacy operations services, resolving pharmacy-related incidents, providing pharmacy expertise for members and clients, developing business requirements for incident resolution and project implementation, providing vendor oversight over operations and leading annual pharmacy benefit implementations.

Responsibilities

Your Work
In this role, you will:
  • Lead a team to track and drive accurate, timely and exceptional pharmacy benefit operations for all lines of businesses. The scope includes but not limited to pharmacy benefit claims processing, integrated accumulators, pharmacy networks, annual pharmacy benefit implementation and business requirements development and maintenance
  • Monitor ongoing performance and drive solutioning and timely resolution of issues that may involve multiple vendors, including information technology (IT), claims processing, retail, home delivery, and specialty pharmacies
  • Provide accurate and timely pharmacy benefit research and consultative services to support escalated pharmacy-related questions from members and employer group clients
  • Develop end-to-end performance metrics and measurements to monitor, report, and explain pharmacy operations performance to internal stakeholders
  • Lead, drive and/or negotiate with vendors and teams where necessary to facilitate development of timely and thorough work plan to resolve operational issues, support benefit implementation, and adherence to contract requirements and expectations
  • Mentor a team of managers, supervisors, and individual contributors and build a high performing workplace to do meaningful work


Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience
  • Requires a college degree or equivalent experience
  • Requires 10 years of health plan and/or pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) operations experience
  • Requires 6 years of experience managing teams in pharmacy claims processing, pharmacy benefit implementation, and vendor management
  • Requires excellent written and verbal communication skills. Experience and skills in presenting complex operational subjects to executive and non-technical audiences is preferred
  • Experience with leading and driving cross functional team consensus and discussions, including internal business partners and external vendors is preferred

Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.

Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.

About the Team

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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About Blue Shield Of California

Blue Shield of California is a not-for-profit health plan provider that has been providing Californians with access to high-quality healthcare for over 80 years. The company offers a range of health insurance products and services to individuals, families, and employers. Blue Shield of California is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of its members and the communities it serves. The company is also committed to sustainability and has implemented a number of initiatives to reduce its environmental impact.
Learn more about Blue Shield Of California
Size
7,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1981

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