Pharmacy Consultant - Employee Benefits

Pharmacy Program Consultant

Responsible for providing day-to-day pharmacy program expertise for the National Employee Benefits group. Contributes to new business initiatives, and supports the delivery of consulting projects to prospects and clients.

Essential duties and responsibilities include serving as the day-to-day subject matter expert in pharmacy working closely with other health benefit consultants; developing client strategies, preparing client deliverables; building and fostering relationships with clients and serving as a trusted advisor; reviewing Pharmacy Benefit Manager contracts and financial analysis of a proprietary Alliant pharmacy benefits purchasing model; working with team to prepare pricing models to evaluate the proposals for clients; participating in client conference calls or meetings to discuss work product; educating local region staff on pharmacy topics and identifying key sales opportunities for coordination with pharmacy and local consultant resources; reviewing pharmacy reports and identifying key trends with comparison to benchmarks; contributing to the development of new tools and products to deepen value with clients by developing expert knowledge and experience of pharmacy best practices, market trends and products and services in the marketplace; complying with agency management system data standards and data integrity (enters and maintains complete and accurate information); and other duties as assigned.

Qualifications include a bachelor's degree in health care or related industry or equivalent combination of education and experience, 8+ of recent relevant experience in a consulting firm or PBM, or in actuarial, underwriting, pricing, account management, or consulting role in a Health & Welfare consulting/brokerage firm, PBM or health insurance carrier; excellent verbal and written communication skills; strong analytical, organizational and prioritization skills; excellent problem solving and time management skills; ability to develop plans for execution of large, complex projects, seeing the big picture and leveraging other experts to contribute to the project as appropriate; willingness to go the extra mile to produce quality work, as client-ready as possible, with a fine attention to detail; self-starter attitude and ability to work with ambiguity; flexibility to work in a fast paced environment with consultants who maintain busy travel schedules; proficient in Microsoft Office Suite; and ability to work with large data sets in Excel, Access, or other large data manipulation software a plus.

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