Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Trend & Affordability (Hybrid)

Premera Blue Cross; Manchester (NH); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, dental

Life and disability insurance

401K with employer match

Pension plan

Wellness incentives

Tuition assistance

On-site parking

On-site activities

Fitness & well-being center

Shuffleboard/Ping Pong on campus

Job summary

Premera Blue Cross is seeking a Senior Clinical Pharmacist to lead trend management strategies, affordability initiatives, and clinical program development for high‑impact medications. This role supports pharmacy savings, member affordability, and cross‑functional product development.

The ideal candidate will drive initiatives across the company, collaborating with multiple stakeholders to lead broader leadership, management, and strategic deployment of clinical programs.

Qualifications

• Pharmacist with an advanced degree or 6 years work experience.
• 4+ years of clinical program development/management/consultation in managed care.
• Experience in managed care pharmacy.
• Experience with project management.
• Health Plan claims analytics experience.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple complex projects.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing; MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook skills.
• Familiarity with local and regional health care issues.

Responsibilities

• Develop clinical programs and products to manage cost and utilization trends of high impact medications.
• Monitor utilization and cost trend of high impact medications under both pharmacy and medical benefits; investigate and prepare trend management options.
• Develop, implement and measure affordability improvement programs with cross-functional collaboration.
• Manage relationships with service vendors supporting high impact drug management; monitor program performance.
• Partner with Rx Product Managers on pricing, reporting, and program maintenance.
• Collaborate with Rx functional areas in designing and executing high impact drug strategies.
• Create trend and pipeline reports and insights to inform pharmacy strategies.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Project management

Verbal & written communication

Education

Advanced degree (PharmD, MBA, MHA, MPH) or 6 years experience

Tools

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook

Job description

Premera Blue Cross is seeking a Senior Clinical Pharmacist to lead trend management strategies, affordability initiatives, and clinical program development for high‑impact medications. This role supports pharmacy savings, member affordability, and cross‑functional product development.

The ideal candidate will drive initiatives across the company, collaborating with multiple stakeholders to lead broader leadership, management, and strategic deployment of clinical programs.