Pharmacy Placement Specialist (US Shift)

Summary of Role

As a Pharmacy Placement (Rx Placement) Specialist, you will be responsible for providing support to US based Health and Benefits Consultants. In this role, you will collect and analyze information that informs strategic business decisions. You will be expected to produce several clients facing deliverables efficiently and accurately.

Your individual role will include a wide variety of complex projects involving design, financing and ongoing management of pharmacy benefit programs.

You will interact regularly with other members of our United States Health and Benefits Consulting practice via email and phone. You will continually learn about North America health and benefits concepts and principles and apply these skills in a global environment. You will materially contribute to a client’s benefits strategy through managing the carrier bid, procurement, and negotiation process. You will have the ability to significant grow your benefits acumen, and financial, client and project management skills by working on cutting edge projects alongside leaders in the industry.

The Role

You will collaborate with U.S. Specialists within the Pharmacy Community of Expertise. To support the delivery of that strategy, you will: 

• Partner with consultants and team members to support clients’ benefits strategies through carrier/vendor bid, procurement, and negotiation process for clients 
• Perform member impact analyses for formulary and pharmacy network differences among the bidders
• Develop client-facing outputs for WTW clients and prospects including presentations 
• Analyze and compare vendor products, services, and contracts
• Design, distribute and evaluate responses to RFPs 
• Support the pharmacy practice on intellectual capital initiatives 
• Utilize onshore-provided templates to facilitate various steps in the Rx Placement process
• Coordinate with Onshore Team regarding sending requests, timing, status and follow-up
• Prepare deliverables within time critical schedules
• Monitor due dates, timelines and deliverables including when there are conflicting priorities
• Manage follow-up questions / requests from Onshore Team
• Participation in project status calls as needed
• Attend internal and client kick off meeting with the Onshore Team and/or other stakeholders
• Schedule meetings and coordinate efforts of colleagues
   

In addition to this direct client work, you will:

• Attend training, meetings and/other educational events to increase understanding of trends, regulations, and developments in the market
• Conduct Internal Peer Reviews for other colleague’s work
• Develop an awareness of the insurance carrier and vendor marketplace, specifically Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM)
• Understand and effectively articulate carrier / vendor specific strengths and weaknesses
• Receive training from experienced consultants and assist to review client needs
• Comply with internal excellence and compliance requirements 
   

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