# Principal, Drug Trends and Pipeline Strategy

**Company**: Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $139,700 - $232,900 per year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Principal, Drug Trends and Pipeline Strategy will be responsible for developing and executing clinical strategies across multiple therapeutic areas to create market-differentiating solutions and drive market adoption and growth.

The Principal plays a key role in ensuring alignment and collaboration amongst cross-functional business units throughout the Supply Chain organisation.

The Principal will leverage analytical and clinical expertise, along with strong healthcare industry knowledge, to conduct strategic analyses, contribute to enterprise planning, and collaborate across clinical, product, operations, analytics, actuarial, and finance teams to identify new opportunities, expand capabilities, and strengthen competitive positioning, and support long-term strategic priorities.

**Responsibilities:**

- Conduct external and internal reviews of the healthcare landscape to identify trends, opportunities, and gaps

- Evaluate the performance of internal clinical strategies to determine enhancement

- Synthesise internal and external insights into innovative and actionable recommendations that drive enterprise objectives, exceed clients' needs, and enable differentiation in the marketplace

- Utilise internal data and modelling to evaluate financial impacts of strategies

- Build strategic partnerships with key stakeholders to achieve key initiatives and goals

- Understand and partner with the Negotiator Team to negotiate contracting language to protect formulary and trend solutions from unintended conflicts

- Monitor strategy performance and outcomes following implementation

- Develop presentations and strategic updates that synthesise complex information for senior leadership

- Establish and execute internal SOPs and playbooks for the team

**Ideal candidates will have:**

- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree (e.g., MBA, MHA, PharmD) preferred

- Licensed pharmacist in good standing, if degree is Pharmacy

- Minimum of 8 years with experience in healthcare strategy (e.g., pharmaceutical contracting, analytics, formulary development, product development, business development)

- Experience using financial modelling tools, including experience in interpreting and reviewing financial modelling results to evaluate the financial impacts of contract changes

- Strong financial acumen

- Demonstrated expertise in clinical strategy and healthcare innovation

- Knowledge of PBM industry, managed care, healthcare industry

- Comfortable working with complex data sets and queries

- Exceptional strategic thinker with a track record of anticipating trends and translating insights into actionable plans

- Experience working effectively in a matrixed organisation with strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills

- Strong detail orientation, organisation, and management of multiple parallel projects with fluid timelines

- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, demonstrate accountability for deliverables, and effectively balance multiple priorities

The salary range for this position is $139,700 - $232,900 per year, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

Benefits include medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioural health programs, 401(k), company-paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence.

## Skills

### Required
- clinical strategy
- healthcare innovation
- financial modelling
- strategic thinking
- relationship-building
- stakeholder management

### Nice to have
- MBA
- MHA
- PharmD
- licensed pharmacist

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