Senior Contracts & Negotiations Leader

Aetna; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 27,552 - 41,328; Full time

Job summary

Aetna in Texas, USA is seeking a Senior Manager to lead contract negotiations and performance assessments for large market groups. You will drive pricing projects, assess contracts, and coordinate cross‑functional team efforts.

The role requires strong Excel skills, vendor recruitment, and deep knowledge of contracting and regulatory requirements with at least four years of related experience.

Qualifications

• Experience in business‑controlled care (contracting, clinical, recruitment, or plan sponsor management).
• Validated expertise in issuer monetary issues, competitor techniques, large/complex contracting alternatives, economic/contracting preparations and regulatory requirements.
• At least four years of associated experience and a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Negotiates, executes, conducts senior assessment and evaluation of contracts.
• Maintains and grows issuer networks while meeting accessibility and pricing goals.
• Recruits vendors to attain network growth and adequacy goals.
• Collaborates cross‑functionally to control company reimbursement and pricing improvement, and to support negotiation and modelling.

Skills

Contracting

Clinical

Recruitment

Plan sponsor mgmt

Regulatory requirements

Excel

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Aetna in Texas, USA is seeking a Senior Manager to lead contract negotiations and performance assessments for large market groups. You will drive pricing projects, assess contracts, and coordinate cross‑functional team efforts.

The role requires strong Excel skills, vendor recruitment, and deep knowledge of contracting and regulatory requirements with at least four years of related experience.