Staff VP Specialty Product Strategy IngenioRX

Description

Your Talent. Our Vision. At Anthem, Inc., it's a powerful combination, and the foundation upon which we're creating greater access to care for our members, greater value for our customers, and greater health for our communities. Join us and together we will drive the future of health care.

This is an exceptional opportunity to do innovative work that means more to you and those we serve at one of America's leading health care companies and a Fortune Top 50 Company.

Location: For this role we prefer candidates located close to an Anthem/IngenioRX office, but we are willing to consider candidates outside of this preference within the Continental United States.

Position Summary

Reporting to the VP, Product Strategy, this position provides leadership for the IngenioRx Specialty Pharmacy Product Strategy, Development, Management and Operations, delivering innovative new products targeted to ASO and Fully Insured clients that drive results and improve operating gain via product portfolio expansion. The leader of our Product portfolio has oversight of our PBM solutions innovations and development for all Specialty Pharmacy offerings to meet current and emerging market needs.

This position engages significantly with matrixed resources (Clinical, Operations, Pricing, Product, IT, Business Development etc.) that collaborate to develop, produce, pilot, implement, and service new products. In this capacity, the leader will create both standalone pharmacy and integrated pharmacy/medical solutions that bring value across the total addressable market: clients/prospects within Anthem as well as carve out payor agnostic strategic solutions designed to meet current and emerging market needs and drive significant profitable growth and retention of our market base.

Primary interfaces include Integrated Segment resources such as the IngenioRx PBM leadership, Sales and account teams, Commercial Plan market segment leaders, Commercial Product, Pharmacy Clinical Account Services, Marketing, Pricing team, Underwriting, Product and Medical Account Services, and Pharmacy Operations, Analytics, IT, Legal and Compliance.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop strategic plans and execution needs for new and emerging solutions, driving business case development, market trends and insights and securing funding to grow and retain business, creating a differentiated position in the market.
• Partner with current client base to assure retention, satisfaction and growth within a highly accountable and visible framework focused on driving results to plan.
• Development of the strategy, profitability and maintenance of all Specialty product offerings, ensuring operational excellence across the product lifecycle.
• Develop executive level relationships (higher-wider-deeper) directly as well as drives plan execution throughout the organization.
• Provide executive leadership, working closely with the Commercialization team, Marketing and Training/L&D partners for the development of training materials/forums to educate Account Mgmt. associates on IngenioRx products and how to effectively sell groups on the pharmacy value proposition.
• Leadership of best practices for pilots, prioritization, development, production, implementation and measurement of success for clients, members and IngenioRx/Commercial FI plan.
• Attend select best & final presentations to supplement the prospective account team.
• Leadership of the product portfolio alignment and business cases for funding, including the foundational ideation/concept development for pilots, soft launches and full rollout

• Product Lifecycle process and phase gates management for all product development, execution and market introductions through strategic recommendation for mature offerings
• Leadership of product strategic input at stakeholder meetings, including steering committee review
• Development of Product plans that meet/exceed IngenioRx goals to achieve the membership growth and profitability targets
• Issue management for product development and operationalization and client implementations
• Evaluate new opportunities for revenue growth such as new product expansions
• Develop strong collaborative relationships with all key stakeholders critical to the successful launch of differentiating products and services across Pharmacy Sales/Account Directors, and all IngenioRx cross functional partners/resources that support the PBM business
• Exceed the retention, satisfaction and product expansion goals by focusing on key product opportunities, including key performance indicators such as member NPS, Client NPS, Cost of Care reduction and profitable growth
• Driving Talent Development and cultural expectations to recruit, inspire and retain high performing staff, deepening the talent bench and leading succession planning.

Qualifications

• Requires a BA/BS or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background .
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Specialty Pharmacy, PBM or Medical health care experience with strong general business management skills, P&L ownership, product strategy methodology, product management including design and use of market research to direct and execute new product innovations
• Experience with healthcare and pharmacy benefit management
• Experience leading cross functional initiatives and executing within a large matrixed organization
• Minimum 8 years' experience leading high performing teams in a product/solution or general business management growth function

Skills, Knowledge, & Experience

• Successful experience developing and executing short and long-term strategic growth plans
• Experience presenting to C-suite leadership
• PharmD
• Clinical and HC Operational acumen

Applicable to Colorado Applicants Only

Annual Salary Range*: $162,240 - $202,800

Actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education and/or skill level.

• The hourly or salary range is the range Anthem in good faith believes is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. The Company may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in Colorado. This range may be modified in the future. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Anthem. We require all new candidates to become vaccinated against COVID-19. If you are not vaccinated, your offer will be rescinded unless you provide - and Anthem approves - a valid religious or medical explanation as to why you are not able to get vaccinated that Anthem is able to reasonably accommodate. Anthem will also follow all relevant federal, state and local laws.

Anthem, Inc. has been named as a Fortune Great Place To Work in 2021, is ranked as one of the 2021 World's Most Admired Companies among health insurers by Fortune magazine, and a Top 20 Fortune 500 Companies on Diversity and Inclusion. To learn more about our company and apply, please visit us at careers.antheminc.com. Anthem is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact ability@icareerhelp.com for assistance.