Use your strengths as a Director of Pharmacy at Wellmark!  About the role: As Director of Pharmacy, you will be a true change leader and help guide the vision and direction around internal operational efficiencies to align with Wellmark’s pharmacy strategy. Having a PharmD and managed-care experience is a plus as this role oversees teams dedicated to researching member and provider inquiries around pharmacy benefit, as well as compliance and auditing of this work. Cross-functional alignment is critical for Wellmark to continue innovating in our Pharmacy space, so you will engage and maintain transparent communication across the organization to bring all stakeholders along on our transformative journey. As a leader of leaders, you will guide, mentor, and build an evolving team of insightful, forward-thinking, data-driven pharmacy colleagues. You will encourage proactive solutions to innovate and drive new cost-effective and/or growth-focused pharmacy strategies.    About you: You believe health care can be better and are passionate about finding ways to influence our work centered around total cost of care. You are a self-starter, analytical, innovative, influential, and partner effectively with internal and external stakeholders. The unknown and opportunity to build something from scratch excites you, because to you it is just another challenge to overcome on the path of rewarding, strategic work. You’re an experienced people-leader who believes mentorship and team member growth is the key to success. You leverage your teams' strengths and subject matter expertise to drive results. You love to teach and understand the benefits of transparent, dedicated leadership, because your team members’ individual achievements mean success for Wellmark.  Top candidates will have PharmD.This position will work a hybrid schedule of at least 3 days in Wellmark's Des Moines office, with 2 days remote option. As a leader, there may be additional days in the office to meet business needs.   Internal title: Director Pharmacy 
