Director Pharmacy Informatics

Director of Pharmacy Informatics   Hybrid role (3 days/week in office) at our Salt Lake City, Boise, Fargo, Portland, Vancouver, Renton, Medford, Burlington, Lewiston, Springdale and Little Rock offices. Preference will be given to current employees and candidates who reside within a commutable distance from our Salt Lake City, Boise, Fargo, Lewiston, Springdale and Little Rock offices or who are willing to relocate. Build a career with purpose. Join our Cause to create a person-focused and economically sustainable health care system.    Who We Are Looking For:    Every day, Cambia’s dedicated team of Pharmacy Analysts is living our mission to make health care easier and lives better. As a member of the Pharmacy Informatics team, our The Director of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology leads a team that coordinates pharmacy financial performance reporting, strategic analysis, and decision support tools to improve the efficiency of Cambia's administrative and operational activities. The role is accountable for measuring and reporting PBM vendor contract deliverables, rebate oversight, client reporting, and performance guarantees, while also managing the financial payment cycles to the PBM and supporting health plan pharmacy benefit initiatives. The Director aligns pharmacy informatics with internal partners such as strategic finance, health informatics, underwriting/pricing, actuary, and compliance/audit, and uses analytical and statistical methods to guide staff in evaluating programs, delivering actionable insights, and serving as a content expert on healthcare data. The role also oversees technology systems, production support, automation, and agile delivery, leading the business process automation strategy and large initiatives on operational platforms. In doing so, the Director collaborates with Pharmacy Operations, DTS, Procurement, and Finance to ensure key systems run effectively and that supplier and vendor services align with Cambia's tactical and strategic objectives. – all in service of creating a person-focused health care experience.   Do you have a passion for serving others and learning new things? Do you thrive as part of a collaborative, caring team? Then this role may be the perfect fit.  What You Bring to Cambia:   Qualifications: The Director of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology would have a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Business, Computer Science, Accounting, or other related field plus 15 years of experience in health care contracting, pharmacy finance or data analysis and five years management experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. FTEs Supervised ·       Mgrs, multifunctional 10+ Skills and Attributes:  ·       Proven ability to plan, organize and lead the work of others; develop, document, implement and enforce processes and procedures; recognize process deficiencies and recommend and implement improvements. ·       Demonstrated advanced skills in data analysis applications (MS Excel, MS Access), data extraction ·       applications (such as SQL), and preferably application programming languages (Visual Basic). ·       Proven ability to think analytically, apply analytical techniques and to provide in-depth analysis and recommendations to pharmacy leadership team, senior management, consultants, and vendors, verbally and in writing, using critical thinking and sound judgment. ·       Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with internal and external financial and legal ·       departments, focusing on contract deliverables, vendor financial performance, cost/benefit analysis, and problem resolution. ·       Demonstrated ability to coordinate work on multiple complex projects supporting clinical, operations, finance, and audit across all lines of business simultaneously to ensure requirements are cleaR&Deadlines are met. ·       Demonstrated deep functional and technical knowledge of the Facets system and ancillary technologies that support operations including demonstrated experience managing technical services within a cross functional ecosystem. ·       Demonstrated business consulting skills, ability to collaborate with business and vendor partners to conceptualize solutions and define scope, deliverables and implementation plans. ·       Successful experience managing the delivery of technology services with high volume processing. ·       Experience leading change initiatives including planning, quality methodologies and executing organizational, process and technology change on a large scale. ·       Capability to manage internal and external suppliers ensuring they deliver value and meet agreed upon commitments using SWOT analysis, Service Level Agreements, Key Performance Indicators and improvements plans. ·       Demonstrated ability to lead high performing teams, manage managers, and direct vendors. ·       Strength in strategic thinking, identifying key business issues and opportunities, creating business strategies and driving results across internal teams and/or external partners. ·       Ability to coordinate initiatives and bring people together across multiple locations, lines of businesses, and functions. ·       Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing with all levels of the work force. ·       Demonstrated people development and coaching, including a track record of building and maintaining a culture that engages direct reports and employees. ·       Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools and resources to drive efficiency and innovation within area of expertise What You Will Do at Cambia:    ·       Provides oversight and measurement of partner PBM deliverables, contract guarantees, and milestones. Helps accelerate partner PBM performance improvement. ·       Lead cost and utilization analysis and competitive intelligence benchmarking to identify key trend drivers and facilitates disciplined and holistic management of cost of care trend