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Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

Lead a team of product managers and data analysts to develop strategies and manage programs to reduce drug spending on behalf of our clients. Specialize in drugs billed under the medical benefit .

Bloomington, Mn

Lead a diverse and strategic team with the goal of lowering health plan spend and trend for drugs billed under both medical and pharmacy benefits. - Site of Care: designed and launched Prime's first ever Site of Care program, shifting patients receiving infusions from high-cost hospital outpatient facilities to lower-cost and more convenient sites of care- Medical Drug Rebates & Biosimilars: complex financial modeling evaluating lowest net-cost drug opportunities. - Physician Fee Schedules: analyze competitiveness of provider reimbursement rates and adjust fee schedules to properly incentivize doctors to use the most cost-effective drugs - Specialty Drug Strategy Committee: co-founder and key contributor to Prime's quarterly Specialty Drug Strategy Committee which evaluates complex specialty classes across medical and pharmacy for cost savings opportunities.

• Manage the $250M Specialty Pharmacy P&L; achieved 25% year-over-year increase in sales dollars and 11% year-over-year increase in scripts• Innovated pharmacy operating model by customizing pharmacist training to align with local patient population needs; received Target’s SVP award of recognition in innovation for strategy development• Negotiate contracts to buy pharmacy patient files from competitor pharmacies; 2014 file acquisitions resulted in incremental sales +27% better than goal • Lead prescription file divestiture process when Target Pharmacies close; 2014 file divestitures resulted in contribution margin +7% better than goal

Target Canada

• Led 25 person cross functional team to reduce overstock inventory from Target Canada’s distribution centers; efforts reduced distribution center inventory by 30% • Implemented process improvement that enabled all Target Canada distribution centers to warehouse and process merchandise without the use of third party offsite warehouses; saved more than $6M per year

Target Canada

Led cross-functional team to develop process optimization and cost reduction strategies for Target’s first ever international expansion into Canada. Presented all recommendations to Target Canada President and SVPs. • Led strategy development for over-the-counter pharmacy in creating an operating model which exceeded all Canadian federal and provincial compliance regulations • Developed a unique consignment operating model for Target Mobile that saved over $3.5M in store payroll expenses per year o Recognized by Target Canada President with Solves Problems Award• Created a unique methodology to alleviate need for third party storage; initiative saved over $4M annually

• Negotiated 1% increase to Kids Bedding product margin over prior year despite 30-50% increase in raw material costs •Drove a 5.7% instock improvement over last year by improving forecasting accuracy and holding vendors accountable to on-time shipping

• Developed strategy to launch reusable shopping bags to support Target’s sustainability initiative which alleviated the need for more than 7 million Target plastic bags• Saved over $500k in the phase out of a pasta vendor by proving negligence in their inventory management

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

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