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As a Senior Director, Pharmacy STARS for the National Personal Pharmacy Program within UHC Government Programs, you will lead a team of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and clinical administrators in order to improve health quality outcomes (i.e. medication adherence, appropriate drug utilization). In addition, you will lead efforts for operational, clinical, and logistical improvements. This is your opportunity to grow within a pharmacy team focused on clinical and business collaboration.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead operational, member-facing national team of clinical pharmacists and pharmacy technicians supporting Part D STAR measures
• Provide leadership to and is accountable for the performance of managers and/or senior level professional staff
• Owns an end to end process
• Identifies and resolves technical, operational, and organizational problems outside own team
• Product, service, or process decisions are most likely to impact entire functions and/or customer accounts (internal or external)
• Work on program implementation teams and contribute to business process design and systems set-up, trouble shooting, and updates
• Analyze data and prepare management summaries related to work stream results and performance management results
• Focus on continual employee engagement
• Perform other duties as required to support projects contributing to departmental goals

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• PharmD with Residency
• Registered Pharmacist with license in good standing in IL
• 5+ years of leadership experience guiding teams, initiatives, or products
• 5+ years of clinical program management and/or population health management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with precepting and/or training
• WebEx or other Virtual Training Platform experience
• Knowledge of STARS, Medicare Part D, and Medicaid management
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (specifically Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Excellent time management and prioritization skills
• Ability to collaborate with multiple areas of the company

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment

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