Director, Health Care Provider Partnerships

Job summary

The Director will lead the development, negotiation, and implementation of strategic partnerships with healthcare providers to improve patient health outcomes and drive business growth. They will also manage existing relationships, lead a team, and collaborate across departments to ensure contractual commitments and performance goals are met.

Job details

The Role: Director, Health Care Provider Partnerships What you are looking for: * A closely connected culture * A total rewards package meant to enhance your work-life flexibility * Fully utilizing your talent * Professional growth and development via challenging projects and assignments * Warm and fuzzy feelings knowing you have helped your community, your team, the business and social causes through the Rexall Care Network Reporting to the VP, Pharmacy Business Development, the Director, Health Care Provider Partnerships is the strategic and business lead to develop, negotiate, and implement new partnerships with health care providers such as primary care physicians, specialists, nurses and overall hospitals. This individual will fill an existing vacancy on the team and will also lead the current primary care relationships to ensure that we retain and expand on these vital partnerships. These partnerships will be aligned to the Rexall strategy and enable our pharmacy teams to improve patient health outcomes, patient experience, patient loyalty and to drive growth. What you’ll be doing: * Be the leader for prospective healthcare partnerships, build out business cases, and ensure successful execution of such partnerships. * Lead existing priority partnership business reviews while also investigating strategies to expand the partnership. * Work closely with Rexall’s Operations Leadership, Real Estate, Legal and local Pharmacy teams to develop and execute plans to track and improve partnership business performance. * Collaborate with other pharmacy business development leads, particularly the Director, Specialty Business Development, Director, Employer and Payor Partnerships, and the Director Brand Pharmaceutical Partnerships to develop programs, maximize business results and help to deliver the best customer experience. * Lead development of internal and external marketing materials outlining the value of provider and healthcare partnerships * Develop key performance indicators and reporting suite to measure execution of programs and partnerships. * Ensure regular partnership review meetings are arranged to track partnership performance and identify new opportunities for growth * Collaborate with other business units, such as Central Pharmacy Operations, Marketing and Be Well / Loyalty teams, to ensure execution of partnerships and programs, as per contractual commitments. * Lead a team to ensure that Rexall’s strategic and growth goals are achieved. * Attend industry functions designed to increase relationships, grow Rexall’s reputation and expand awareness of Rexall’s capabilities and assets * Monitor and maintain awareness of retail health, pharmacy and other health systems trends to inform new partnership opportunities and to guide contract negotiations. * Demonstrate leadership, influence, agility and accountability to achieve objectives. * Participate in other strategic partnerships with hospitals, healthcare providers and/or researchers where aligned with programs and initiatives * Perform other duties as assigned in support of Rexall Pharmacy Group Ltd. Knowledge, Skills and Experience: * 6+ years in the healthcare sector; Retail pharmacy experience an asset * Skilled negotiator, experienced in developing strategic partnerships and agreements * Experience in negotiating contracts, prices and terms * Excellent organizational, communication, analytical and interpersonal skills * Advanced skills utilizing Microsoft Applications including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. * University degree in Business, Science or Healthcare * Comfortability with regular travel * Must be able to work independently and in a team environment At Rexall, we are better together. We serve our customers, partners, and patients best—we are our best—when everyone brings their true self to work. Our connected, inclusive culture celebrates our lived experiences, backgrounds, expertise, and self-expression to let us win as one team. Leveraging our differences distinguishes us and brings out our best performance. Are you #ALLin? Our hiring process uses AI-enabled tools to assist with the assessment of applications based on job-related criteria. All decisions are made by the hiring team. Rexall Pharmacy Group is committed to providing an accessible environment for all of our customers, employees, and job applicants. Rexall Pharmacy Group will make available to any selected applicants’ accommodations and/or accessible formats should they require. Candidates are encouraged to discuss any accommodation they may need in order to allow fo

What you’ll do

The Director will lead the development, negotiation, and implementation of strategic partnerships with healthcare providers to improve patient health outcomes and drive business growth. They will also manage existing relationships, lead a team, and collaborate across departments to ensure contractual commitments and performance goals are met.

Requirements

Candidates must have at least 6 years of experience in the healthcare sector and a university degree in Business, Science, or Healthcare. Strong negotiation skills, proficiency in Microsoft Office, and the ability to travel regularly are required.

Benefits

• Total rewards package
• Work-life flexibility
• Professional growth and development

Listed skills

• Leadership · Preferred
• Microsoft Excel · Preferred
• Communication · Preferred
• Microsoft Word · Preferred
• Project management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Strategic partnerships
• Contract negotiation
• Business development
• Relationship management
• Healthcare sector knowledge
• Analytical skills
• Communication
• Leadership
• Project management
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Market analysis
• KPI development
• Retail pharmacy
• Interpersonal skills
• External Marketing
• Retail Pharmacy
• Influencing Skills
• Pharmacy Operations
• Influencing Without Authority
• Accountability
• Business Results
• Research
• Artificial Intelligence
• Business Development
• Business Science
• Customer Service
• Contract Negotiation
• Health Systems
• Marketing
• Interpersonal Communications
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Negotiation
• Operations
• Organizational Communications
• Pharmaceuticals
• Primary Care
• Real Estate
• Strategic Partnership
• Plan Execution

Job areas

• Healthcare
• Management & Leadership
• Retail
• Consulting
• Sales
• Health Care Provider
• Clinical Director
• Health Service Managers
• Medical and Health Services Managers