Contracts Specialist – Pharmacy

Opportunities with Genoa Healthcare.  A career with Genoa Healthcare means you’re part of a collaborative effort to serve behavioral health and addiction treatment communities. We do more than just provide medicine: we change lives for the better. People with serious mental or chronic illness – and those who care for them – have moving stories, and at Genoa we become their voice, their partner. Working as part of a coordinated care team, we partner with community-based providers and others to ensure that people with complex health conditions get the right medications and are able to follow their treatment plans. Our personalized services – in-clinic pharmacies, medication management and more – are leading the way to a new level of care.

Genoa is a pharmacy care services company that is part of Optum and UnitedHealth Group’s family of businesses. We are part of a leading information and technology-enabled health services business dedicated to making the health system work better for everyone. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

This role reports to the pharmacy contracts manager and assists with contract drafting and editing, RFP responses and backup support.

Candidate is preferred to live in or around the Minneapolis MN area.

 

Primary Responsibilities:

Contract Administration:

• Contract Drafting/Lifecycle Management
• Prepare agreement drafts for national sales team using company templates
• Prepare affiliation agreements for new internship arrangements 
• Prepare contract amendments as needed 
• Monitor the lifecycle of all pharmacy agreements and leases to ensure timely renewals
• Monitor existing RFP expirations and customer webpages for RFP releases
• Assist customers and operations teams with questions on agreement terms

Sales Support:

• RFP/RFI Support
• Review all Requests for Proposals/Information for new core pharmacy services, format the response and prepare standard responses and completing all required forms and documentation gathering.

General Document Drafting 

• Prepare letters and notices as required by the field 

General Support

• Provide status updates on pending agreements to various teams weekly
• Coordinate calls with legal and operations to support resolve issues with customers
• Ensure customer data is up to date in CRM 

 

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:

• 5+ years of paralegal or contract management experience, preferably in a healthcare setting 
• Experience drafting and editing contracts and leases
• Proven knowledge of healthcare law (HIPAA and privacy laws)
• Proven excellent written and verbal communication skills, excellent organizational and time management skills; clear, concise, and logical writing style
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with other business departments
• Demonstrated proficiency in MS365 suite (ppt, MS Word, Excel)
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 

 

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

 

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $58,800 to $105,000 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable. 

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

 

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

 

 

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

 

UnitedHealth Group is a drug – free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.