Senior Vice President, Specialty Operations
$268,136–$446,876 year
On-siteBannockburn, Illinois, United States
Job Summary
Lead national specialty pharmacy operations, including dispensing, fulfillment, patient onboarding, and buy-and-bill revenue cycle management. Develop multi-year strategies to maximize reimbursement, accelerate cash collections, and deliver aggressive EBITDA targets while managing a multi-hundred-million-dollar budget. Champion digital transformation through AI, automation, and analytics to modernize operating models and drive productivity. Establish scalable processes for chronic, rare, orphan, and oncology therapeutic areas, ensuring compliance with URAC, ACHC, and NABP standards. Partner with Commercial, Clinical, and Finance leadership to support acquisitions, market expansion, and sustained growth across 70 pharmacies and 100 treatment sites.
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in specialty pharmacy, healthcare operations, specialty therapeutics, infusion services, or related sectors
- Significant executive leadership experience overseeing national, multi-site specialty pharmacy operations
- Extensive experience leading specialty pharmacy revenue cycle management, reimbursement, patient access, and buy-and-bill operations
- Demonstrated success managing large-scale national organizations with 1,000+ team members across multiple geographies and functions
- Proven ability to lead enterprise transformation initiatives involving digital technologies, automation, analytics, and artificial intelligence
- Strong history of delivering sustained growth, margin expansion, productivity improvement, and operational excellence
- Experience owning major P&L responsibility with accountability for revenue, EBITDA, budgets, and capital planning
- Deep expertise in specialty therapeutics, including chronic, rare, orphan, oncology, immunology, neurology, and other complex disease states
- Demonstrated success implementing Lean, Six Sigma, operational excellence, and process transformation initiatives
- Bachelor's degree
- life sciences
- Master's degree
- MBA, MHA, R.Ph, PharmD, or other advanced healthcare/business degree
Desired Qualifications
- Executive leadership experience within a national specialty pharmacy organization, PBM specialty platform, integrated healthcare delivery organization, specialty infusion company, or large pharmaceutical services organization
- Experience supporting limited distribution drug networks, manufacturer services programs, and specialty commercialization efforts
- Experience integrating acquisitions and scaling enterprise operations during periods of rapid growth
- Black Belt or Master Black Belt certification
- Specialty Pharmacy Expertise
- Revenue Cycle Optimization
- Digital & AI Transformation
- Financial Acumen
- Growth Mindset
- Change Leadership
- Talent Development
- Executive Presence
- Customer & Patient Centricity
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
Hiring someone like this?
Get your role in front of qualified candidates on Sorce.