Strategic Pharmacy Consultant; Remote Eligible

Position: Strategic Pharmacy Consultant (Remote Eligible)
Location: Chesterfield

Who We Are:

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Job Summary:

The Strategic Pharmacy Consultant position serves as a critical member of the Valued Pharmacy Services (VPS) account team. This role directly supports the broker(s) during the after-sales phase of the business. Once the account is acquired, this role assumes complete responsibility for maintaining an extremely positive relationship between VPS and our clients. Coordinates VPS services to assigned clients, while representing the clients' interests with the providers, and serving as the clients' liaison to providers and other internal and external partners.

The Strategic Pharmacy Consultant also plays a major advisory role, by providing client consultation regarding Pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM) industry fundamentals, clinical opportunities, emerging trends, and best practices.

This position is also responsible for the education of the internal staff to advance VPS' efforts to increase market share by providing innovative cost-effective benefit designs that help maximize the client's effort to provide an affordable pharmacy benefit while minimizing disruption to the member. We are open to remote candidates with strong industry experience.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities / Essential Functions:

Develop and maintain effective working relationships in a strategic liaison role between clients and internal and external partners, such PBMs, brokers, and other account staff.

Communicate with external clients and brokers with clinical insights and clinical program recommendations

Responsible for understanding each assigned client's business model and organizational structure and keeping in the loop on client news and changes.

Proficiently know the VPS and PBM marketplace, including carrier contacts and services, as well as carrier underwriting requirements.

Keep account team and Vice President fully informed of all important activities on client accounts.

Present and explain quotes and contracts, benefits and rates to clients; research and answer questions presented by the client regarding quotes and contracts.

Review of contracts, claims processing, and audit benefit designs, financial reports, etc., to ensure their accuracy and high quality.

Prepare and obtain client employee materials and present employee benefits via webinars, benefit fairs, face-to-face enrollment meetings and enroll employees in the appropriate services in a timely manner.

Represent company as a clinical pharmacy benefit subject matter expert at conferences which may include public speaking events

Assist in the communication of employee benefits in client enrollment meetings and webinars with the appropriate clients and PBM companies.

Liaise between client, brokers, and PBM companies to independently resolve all service problems. Specifically, assist the client in resolving billing, claim, eligibility, COBRA, and customer service problems.

Serve as liaison to VPS' PBM partners to resolve problematic clinical issues

With input from external partners, independently manage client benefit implementations, including creation and distribution of booklets, enrollment kits, enrollment forms, letters and checklists that are that are on-brand with VPS and meet company standards.

Accountable for accurate and timely preparation of work orders, as well as overall high-quality implementation, reporting and auditing on all assigned accounts.

Make regular service/relationship calls to clients; establish and promote goodwill with customer.

Review client history and follow up with client on a regular basis.

Host clients in the VPS and/or carrier facilities, as needed.

Prepare reports deemed necessary by the Vice President and/or broker.

Keep all information on accounts accurate and up to date in the Zoho CRM software or any other client management…