Director, Pharmacy Data and Analytics

Blue Shield of CA; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Shield of California is seeking a Director, Pharmacist - Pharmacy Data & Analytics to lead the pharmacy data strategy and enterprise analytics across all lines of business.

You will partner with key teams to develop advanced analytics solutions, improve affordability, clinical outcomes, and member experience, while guiding regulatory reporting and BI initiatives.

Qualifications

• Active California Pharmacist license (RPh).
• PharmD degree from an accredited U.S. school.
• 10+ years in healthcare, pharmacy analytics, BI, or data science.
• 6+ years of people management with direct reports.
• Experience with large healthcare datasets and BI tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead analytics strategy for pharmacy data and spend over $5B annually.
• Translate complex data into actionable insights to drive affordability and outcomes.
• Partner with Pharmacy Strategy, Formulary, Clinical, Finance, and vendors on analytics solutions.
• Develop performance metrics, trends, and regulatory reporting.

Job description

Your Role

The Blue Shield of California (BSC) Pharmacy team comprises more than 350 dedicated professionals who are passionate about transforming pharmacy care and improving the health and well-being of the members we serve. Ensuring every member has safe, equitable access to high-quality and sustainably affordable pharmacy benefits is at the core of everything we do.

As the Director, Pharmacist - Pharmacy Data & Analytics, you will lead the pharmacy organization's data, reporting, analytics, and business intelligence strategy to support informed decision-making across a pharmacy spend portfolio exceeding $5 billion annually. This role is responsible for translating complex pharmacy and healthcare data into actionable insights that drive affordability, clinical outcomes, operational performance, and member experience improvements across all lines of business. You will provide strategic leadership for enterprise pharmacy analytics, partnering closely with Pharmacy Strategy, Formulary, Clinical, Finance, Actuarial, Product, Operations, and external vendor partners to develop advanced analytical solutions, reporting, or data transfers that support key business priorities. This includes responsibility for developing performance measurement frameworks, leading trend and cost-of-healthcare analyses, evaluating data, and regulatory reporting.

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.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a currently active and unrestricted California Registered Pharmacist (RPh) license
• Requires a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree from an accredited school of pharmacy in the U.S.
• Requires 10 years of prior relevant experience in healthcare, pharmacy, analytics, business intelligence, reporting, or data science
• Requires 6 years of prior people management experience with direct responsibility for supervising, coaching, and evaluating direct reports
• Experience working with large healthcare datasets, including pharmacy claims, medical claims, eligibility, provider, and financial data
• Experience with data visualization and business intelligence tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, Business Objects, or similar platforms
• Experience with SQL and healthcare data warehousing environments
• Experience with cloud-based data environments such as Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, or Google Cloud
• Understanding of healthcare quality measures, STAR ratings, HEDIS, and/or regulatory reporting
• Excellent presentation, verbal and written skills with ability to understand and convey complex ideas to audience with diverse backgrounds
• Detail-oriented with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Exhibit a "can do" attitude and solution-oriented approach to resolve challenges

Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.
Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.