Senior Director, Healthcare Service Portfolio Planning & Pricing
Address: 108 WILMOT ROAD,DEERFIELD,IL,60015-05108-00001-Y
Job ID 1628162BRJob Summary
This role leads pricing strategy for healthcare services within the early stages of the service design lifecycle, and market analysis and planning for longer term service initiatives for all commercial segments, including payers, providers/health systems, and pharma. This role is pivotal in establishing service development priorities, enhancing value creation of service offerings, and ensuring alignment with market needs and organizational growth objectives.
Job Responsibilities
- Defines and leads longer term strategy for health service portfolio. Includes determining business strategy for new growth areas, based on variable factors including market opportunity assessment and demand. In addition, this role will collaborate with VP of service development on roadmaps and prioritization recommendations for near term initiates.
- Conducts detailed market research and competitive assessments to uncover innovation and development opportunities to inform healthcare services near-term and long-term roadmaps.
Cultivates an innovative culture by promoting the adoption of novel ideas and creative problem-solving across teams. - Guides strategic and financial planning aspects of the product lifecycle, from ideation to launch. Collaborates with the Healthcare Service Design and Development teams to ensure offerings address customer needs and deliver business-aligned value.
- Develops and implements effective pricing models and contracting strategies that enhance profitability and sustain market competitiveness for both new and legacy services.
- Directs financial planning efforts including pricing, forecasting, and financial analysis across all healthcare service portfolios.
- Partners with marketing, sales, operations, and service development teams to ensure synchronized execution of strategies.
- Conducts ongoing reviews of existing services to ensure pricing strategies and value propositions maximize profitability and remain market competitive.
- Builds and maintains relationships with key stakeholders including customers, partners, and internal teams (including B2B Sales, Sales Enablement and Service Development) to incorporate valuable feedback into service planning.
- Defines and monitors KPIs to evaluate the success of portfolio growth initiatives, driving accountability and continuous improvement.
- Supports M&A activities by contributing to due diligence processes and seamless integration of newly acquired services and technologies
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.
Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions.
The actual salary an employee can expect to receive, plus bonus pursuant to the terms of any bonus plan if applicable, will depend on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law. To review benefits, please visit jobs.walgreens.com/benefits More Company information is available at www.walgreensbootsalliance.com.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 8 years of experience in healthcare service strategy, product management, or pricing leadership or High/School/GED and at least 11years of experience in healthcare service strategy, product management, or pricing leadership
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Healthcare Administration, or related field.
- Proven success leading cross-functional initiatives within a matrixed organization.
- Deep understanding of healthcare industry segments (payer, provider, pharma).
- Exceptional strategic thinking, analytical, and financial acumen.
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- At least 5 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
- At least 5 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross- functional team leadership
- Willing to travel up to 30% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state)
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA or advanced degree strongly preferred
- Experience with enterprise-level innovation frameworks
- Background in managing service portfolio transformation
- Proficiency in financial modeling, pricing analytics, and market assessment tools
- M&A integration experience is a strong plus
We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Salary Range: $186500 - $320000 / Salaried