Program Manager

Your Role

The Cost of Health Care (COHC) & Specialty Drug Management Pharmacy team is responsible for managing the Specialty Drug strategies across the pharmacy and medical benefit and leading and implementing cost of health care initiatives.

The Program Manager, Principal will report to the Director, Pharmacy COHC & Specialty Drug Management.  In this role you will be responsible for coordinating COHC operations, supporting cross-functional pharmacy affordability forums, and driving implementation of selected pharmacy initiatives that advance trend, savings, quality, and operational performance objectives. This role partners closely with pharmacy leadership, analytics, lines of business, product, actuarial, network, clinical, and COHC governance stakeholders to maintain a clear initiative roadmap, monitor program performance, and ensure timely execution of priority work.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Responsibilities

Your Work 
In this role, you will:

• Lead COHC operations support, including tracking of pharmacy affordability initiatives, coordination of initiative status updates, and follow-through on operational deliverables
• Coordinate COHC forums, including agenda development, stakeholder preparation, meeting facilitation support, action item tracking, and alignment with related governance and line-of-business forums
• Organize stakeholder deep dives on material trend drivers, emerging pharmacy opportunities, medical and pharmacy benefit drug initiatives, and priority affordability topics requiring cross-functional input
• Develop, maintain, and distribute COHC program performance reporting, including initiative performance, savings versus plan, trend drivers, biosimilar adoption, implementation milestones, risks, and executive-ready summaries
• Support implementation of key COHC pharmacy initiatives, including specialty drug management, biosimilar strategies, site-of-service opportunities, rebate and vendor strategies, and other roadmap priorities
• Maintain the pharmacy initiative roadmap and COHC program portfolio, ensuring initiatives are documented, prioritized, assigned to accountable owners, updated for status and milestones, and aligned to annual and multi-year financial targets

Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience