Category Administrator | Pharmacy

Location:

Integrated Services Center

Worker Type:

Regular

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Pay Range:

The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience.

$60,840.00 - $91,520.00

Position Highlights

You Belong at Avera

Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview
The Category Administrator – Pharmacy provides leadership for pharmacy contracting and spend optimization across NPPC/PACE member systems. The role turns aggregated purchasing into measurable financial results by aligning contracting strategy, utilization decisions, and performance governance with pharmacy and supply chain leaders.

What you will do

• Lead pharmacy contracting strategy at the portfolio, including development of contracting roadmaps aligned to pipeline launches, patent expirations, and biosimilar/generic entry.
• Serve as the primary contracting voice for NPPC Pharmacy category negotiations with manufacturers and key partners, ensuring consistent strategy, messaging, and decision support across member systems.
• Negotiate and structure agreements including rebates, price protections, conversion incentives, and multi-year terms in partnership with legal/finance/contracting.
• Review pharmacy purchasing and usage data to identify the highest-cost and highest-volume drugs, identify opportunities for facilities to use preferred contract products, and prioritize for contract savings and standardization.
• Establish, monitor, and report utilization baselines and performance (market share, compliance to preferred products/manufacturers, price compliance), including benchmarking and executive-level performance reporting.
• Design and coordinate conversion strategies for biosimilars/generics (pre-launch planning, timing, communications, adoption playbooks) in collaboration with pharmacy leadership and external partners.
• Drive standardization and adoption at scale by aligning pharmacy, supply chain, finance, and operational leaders on clinical constraints, standardization goals, and contracting priorities; build consensus and remove barriers to adoption.
• Provide clear contracting guidance and communications to facilities and affiliates on preferred manufacturers/products, purchasing expectations, exceptions handling, and when/why to communicate even when purchase volume may be low.
• Govern contract performance and financial integrity, including rebate tracking/validation, discrepancy resolution (e.g., missed/incorrect rebates), and renegotiation or exit of underperforming agreements.
• Identify and deliver measurable value, including savings attribution, leakage reduction, and efficiency/outcome enhancements tied directly to contracting strategy and adoption performance.

Essential Qualifications
The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Required Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

• Associate's in Business, Healthcare, Logistics, Public Health, Pharmacy related field and/or 4+ years combination of equivalent education and experience.
• 4-6 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

• Bachelor's in Business, Healthcare, Logistics, Pharmacy, or Public Health.
• Experience with contracts, vendor management, product selection, purchasing, supply chain operations.
• Experience with or working knowledge of legal terminology use in contracting within the healthcare industry.
• Working knowledge of Pharmacy operations.
• Experience working with product selection, vendors, contracts – including negotiating with MFG’s, GPO’s, and distributors.
• Experience in 340b purchasing.

Expectations and Standards

• Commitment to the daily application of Avera’s mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community.
• Promote Avera’s values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship.
• Uphold Avera’s standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.
• Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with, but not limited to, CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA if applicable.

Benefits You Need & Then Some

Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees. We support you with opportunities to help live balanced, healthy lives. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future.

• PTO available day 1 for eligible hires.
• Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement
• Career development guided by hands-on training and mentorship

Avera is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran Status, or other categories protected by law. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-605-504-4444 or send an email to talent@avera.org.