Hybrid Pharmacy Vendor Partnerships Manager

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina; Little Rock (AR); Hybrid; USD 74,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Health and wellness programs

Parental leave and surrogacy/adoption

Tuition reimbursement

401k match

Career development programs

Job summary

Blue Cross NC is seeking a Vendor Manager to support the pharmacy division's vendor management portfolio by implementing and managing value-driven vendor partnerships. This role will ensure smaller and/or less complex outsourced relationships deliver the expected value through effective onboarding, business process alignment, operational performance reporting, and issue resolution support.

The Vendor Manager will serve as a liaison between business leads, vendors, and internal teams; provide

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required).
• 3+ years of experience in related field.
• In lieu of degree, 5+ years of experience in related field.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day relationship between business and vendor to ensure seamless and effective delivery of outsourced services.
• Primary communicator/liaison between vendor and business stakeholders to answer questions, provide performance metrics updates, manage capacity and demand, and remediate escalations as needed.
• Facilitate vendor onboarding process through effective communications, site visits and training to educate the vendor on program/product/operational details and successfully transition business processes and/or operations.
• Partner with business leads to understand evolving service needs and expectations, define business requirements, and work with the vendor to improve capabilities.
• Analyzes information to determine if there are gaps in performance and how to best address through process improvements, training and/or other interventions.
• Review vendor work for quality issues and manage service improvement plans.
• Provides inputs to vendor contract negotiations to ensure vendor contracts align to business strategy.
• Collaborate with internal business partners on vendor strategy discussions, providing data, knowledge and feedback on vendor operations from the business perspective.

Skills

Vendor management

Contract negotiations

Performance metrics

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or advanced degree

Experience in related field (5+ years in lieu of degree)

Job description

Blue Cross NC is seeking a Vendor Manager to support the pharmacy division's vendor management portfolio by implementing and managing value-driven vendor partnerships. This role will ensure smaller and/or less complex outsourced relationships deliver the expected value through effective onboarding, business process alignment, operational performance reporting, and issue resolution support.

The Vendor Manager will serve as a liaison between business leads, vendors, and internal teams; provide