Job: Director ? Pharmacy Program Management

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Jobing Description

Role Description: Our Program Development and Management jobs are vital to our success and are leaders in driving the future growth of Optum Rx. Success in these careers relies on many factors: your ability to deal with ambiguity, your ability to adapt and embrace change, and a long-term commitment to making health care better for everyone.

The Director, Pharmacy Program Management is responsible for program planning and execution throughout the product/program development lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with IT, pharmacy operations, sales, marketing and support teams to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. The Program Management Director's job also includes ensuring that the products developed and programs managed support the company's overall strategy and goals.


Responsibilities:

Key leader of cross-functional team focused on managing existing pharmacy products and programs and bringing new innovative products to market that leapfrog the competition and position OptumRx as the clear leader in the field.

Ability to turn business strategy into action - drives the discovery, prioritization, design, implementation and go-to-market strategy for new products and management of existing products and programs in a complex, high volume environment.

Define the product strategy and roadmap

Deliver Marketing Requirements Documents and Product Requirements Documents with prioritized features and corresponding justification

Work with external third parties to assess partnerships and licensing opportunities

Synthesize customer insights, quantitative and qualitative data, and business strategy into product concepts and requirements

Focusing on emerging technologies such as barcode scanning, image recognition, OCR, ePrescribing, voice recognition and mobile applications

Manage the product lifecycle's of a full portfolio of products

Serves as a product spokesperson to both internal and external audiences.

Accountable for product financials and profitability.

Gathers competitive market intelligence to influence product design and development

Anticipates customer needs and proactively develops solutions to meet them.

Identify appropriate target markets for the products. Regularly interact with customers, prospects and industry analysts and conducts surveys to determine market requirements for functionality, packaging and pricing. Develops business plans, including pricing models, revenue projections and associated costs

Solves complex problems and develops innovative solutions.

Reviews work performed by others and provides recommendations for improvement.

Forecasts and plans resource requirements.

Authorizes deviations from standards.

Motivates and inspires other team members.

At OptumRx, you will perform within an innovative culture that's focused on transformational change in the health care system. You will leverage your skills across a diverse and multi-faceted business. And you will make contributions that will have an impact that's greater than you've ever imagined.

Skills / Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in healthcare, science, technology, or Marketing, M.B.A highly preferred

7 years of product/program development management experience within a matrix organization. Healthcare experience highly preferred.

Experience bringing new products to market, from concept to implementation

Demonstrated exceptional communication, presentation, leadership and influencing skills

Strong financial and analytical acumen - experience optimizing productivity, ROI and revenue

Demonstrated ability to manage people and prioritize deliverables

Proven organizational skills with ability to be flexible and work with ambiguity

Pharmacy / PBM industry experience strongly preferred.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Must be able to travel 30% of the time

Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority

Proficient in MS Office - high level of proficiency in excel

Able to operate in a matrix environment in coordinating people and technical resources from multiple areas of the company

OptumRx is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.

If you're ready to talk about groundbreaking interactions, let's talk about what happens when a firm that touches millions of lives decides to gather results from millions of prescriptions every month and analyze their impact. Let's talk about smart, motivated teams. Let's talk about more effective and affordable health care solutions. This is caring. This is great chemistry. This is the way to make a difference. We're doing all this, and more, through a greater dedication to our shared values of integrity, compassion, relationships, innovation and performance.

OptumRx is an empowering place for people with the flexibility to help create change. Innovation is part of the job description. And passion for improving the lives of our customers is a motivating factor in everything we do. In the largest and most personal sense, your impact can be greater than even you thought at OptumRx.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.