Account Specialist, Rx Solutions

AON PLC; Chesterfield (MO); Hybrid; USD 54,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

PTO & paid holidays

401(k) with match

Health & wellness programs

Job summary

NFP Rx Solutions — the pharmacy benefit consulting arm of NFP — seeks a client-focused professional to liaison with PBMs, brokers, and internal teams. The role requires PBM knowledge, strong communication, and analytical skills to optimize pharmacy benefits for self-funded employers and health plans.

The position emphasizes a hybrid in-office schedule in the U.S. and offers competitive salary with incentives. Candidates with 3+ years PBM experience are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• PBM knowledge and benefits industry familiarity.
• Strong research and data interpretation skills.
• Proven ability to read complex policies and contracts.
• Experience responding to client inquiries with accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain relationships between clients, PBMs, brokers, and partners.
• Understand client business models, goals, and PBM implications.
• Advise leadership on client activities and performance metrics.
• Coordinate market reprice analyses and contract terms.

Skills

PBM knowledge

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

MS Excel

Education

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Associate’s degree or equivalent

Tools

MS Excel

MS Word

MS Outlook

PowerPoint

Job description

Posting Description

Who We Are

NFP, an Aon company, is a multiple Best Places to Work award winner in Business Insurance. We are an organization of consultative advisors and problem solvers. We help companies and individuals around the globe address their most significant risk, workforce, wealth management and retirement challenges through custom solutions and a people-first approach. To learn more, please visit: https://www.NFP.com.

Position Overview

NFP Rx Solutions — the pharmacy benefit consulting arm of NFP — is one of the largest full-service pharmacy benefit consulting practices in the U.S. We deliver customized Rx solutions to self-funded employers, health plans, and coalition clients, combining contract negotiation, clinical expertise, and advanced analytics to meaningfully reduce pharmacy spend and improve member outcomes. We are prioritizing local candidates who are excited to collaborate with colleagues through a hybrid in-office schedule.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain effective working relationships as liaison between clients, internal teams, and external partners, such PBMs, brokers, and other third party staff.
• Understand each assigned client’s business model, organizational structure, business goals, pharmacy benefit intent, and forecasted changes.
• Knowledgeable in the PBM marketplace.
• Advise leadership of all important activities on client accounts.
• Coordinate market reprice analyses, contract terms, and rate dependencies for internal teams.
• Research and respond to pharmacy benefit related questions within deadline requirements.
• Assist in the communication of employee benefits in client enrollment meetings and webinars with the appropriate PBM representation.
• Assist the client in resolving billing, claim, eligibility, and other customer service problems.
• Partner with PBM teams to resolve problematic benefits issues.
• Management and execution of client benefit requests, benefit changes, program implementations, new groups, and terminations.
• Assist director with preparing annual detailed pharmacy benefit performance reports for clients showing client metrics in comparison to industry benchmarks along with recommendations for plan improvement.
• Review pharmacy benefit utilization trends and outliers with client as needed.
• Keep all information on book of business accurate and up to date in the CRM software.
• Supervise client billing and payments, and ensure that proper billing procedures are followed.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of department resources, job aids, training materials, etc.

Required Education, Experience, and Certifications/Licenses:

• Prefer Bachelor’s degree. Associate’s degree or equivalent from two-year college, minimum requirement.
• Prefer three years of PBM related industry experience.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Knowledge of the Employee Benefits industry, and PBM specifically
• Excellent research skills
• Ability to read and interpret industry policies and contract documents, as well as proposals and other documentation and correspondence
• Ability to respond efficiently and accurately to common inquiries or complaints from customers or carrier
• Ability to effectively present information to insured clients and their respective carriers
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and command of the English language
• Ability to apply basic mathematical concepts such as percentages, adding, subtracting, multiplying and division to required tasks
• Strong critical thinking, organizational, and decision-making abilities
• Ability to define problems, collect and analyze data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• High degree of diligence and attention to detail
• Ability to function independently with minimal direction
• Ability to prioritize multiple projects and meet objectives and deadlines established by supervisor and clients, often with short turnaround times
• Ability to maintain positive and beneficial relationships with department staff, numerous internal departments, external customers, agents, and subscribers
• Proficient in MS Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint
• Professional telephone skills and e-mail etiquette
• Ability to follow company confidentiality requirements as well as with HIPAA and other applicable government regulations

Travel

• Ability to travel up to 5% of the time, with occasional overnight trips.

What We Offer

We're proud to offer a competitive salary, PTO & paid holidays, 401(k) with match, exclusive discount programs, health & wellness programs, and more. Our PeopleFirst culture focuses on building and nurturing lifelong relationships with our employees because, at the end of the day, we exist to be there for others. The base salary range for this position is $53,500 – $70,000. The base salary offered will be determined by factors including, but not limited to, experience, credentials, education, certifications, skill level required for the position, the scope of the position, and geographic location. Actual base salary offered will be determined on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the base salary, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.

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