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Lead Director, Specialty Trade Relations

CVS Health

$100,000 - $231,540
Sep 24, 2025
Northbrook, IL, US
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CVS Health is a leading specialty pharmacy and needs to maintain and grow its leadership in this space by developing and executing key strategies and initiatives with specialty pharmaceutical manufacturers. This involves optimizing procurement, distribution, acquisition economics, and specialty services to ensure continued success and profitability.

Requirements

  • 8 years experience in specialty pharmacy, healthcare, contracting or pharmaceutical industry required.
  • Successful experience in business development and contracting
  • 5 years experience in managing specialty/biologic manufacturer relationships preferred.
  • 2 years experience with contract negotiations and successful completion of contracts strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

  • development and execution of key strategies and initiatives with specialty pharmaceutical manufacturers
  • Strategies will include procurement of products, distribution strategies, acquisition economics, specialty services such as data and reporting services, adherence programs and other performance services.
  • direct account responsibilities for established manufacturers
  • manage pharma relationships at a leadership level
  • be accountable for the cost of goods of pharmaceutical manufacturer products, and improvement in the reduction of these costs
  • identifying and exploiting new opportunities for current and new manufacturers
  • balancing multiple priorities at a time, such as when dealing with multiple contract negotiations and multiple manufacturer initiatives.

Other

  • 10+ years of overall professional work experience
  • experience effectively presenting in front of large, executive level customer audiences required.
  • Ability to travel, up to 20% of the time, as needed, per business needs
  • MBA Preferred
  • Bachelor's degree required; equivalent combination of experience and/or education may be considered.