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Option Care Health

Largest independent home infusion therapy provider

Senior Vice President - Specialty Operations

PharmacyUpdated on Nov 12
Full-timeBannockburn, IL, USA$207.2k - $345.4k

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 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 or more team members across multiple geographies and functions.
  • Proven ability to lead enterprise transformation initiatives involving digital technologies, automation, analytics, and artificial intelligence.
  • A strong history of delivering sustained growth, margin expansion, productivity improvement, and operational excellence.
  • Experience owning major profit-and-loss responsibility, including 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.
  • A bachelor's degree is required.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute a multi-year specialty operations strategy aligned with company growth objectives and specialty market expansion plans.
  • Lead national specialty pharmacy operations, including dispensing, fulfillment, patient onboarding, pharmacy services, care coordination, admissions, reimbursement support, and operational centers of excellence.
  • Establish scalable operating models supporting growth across chronic, rare, orphan, oncology, immunology, neurology, and other specialty therapeutic areas.
  • Drive operational consistency, service excellence, productivity, and patient outcomes across sites and functions.
  • Serve as a member of the Specialty and Enterprise Leadership Team and influence organizational strategy and long-term investments.
  • Own operational performance across specialty pharmacy and buy-and-bill revenue cycle functions.
  • Lead enterprise strategies to maximize reimbursement, accelerate cash collections, reduce revenue leakage, improve clean claim rates, and optimize gross-to-net performance.
  • Oversee patient access, benefits investigation, prior authorization, financial assistance, copay support, claims management, collections, and reimbursement operations.
  • Partner with Finance and Commercial leaders to drive profitable growth, margin expansion, and operating leverage.
  • Manage a multi-hundred-million-dollar operating budget and deliver against growth and EBITDA targets.
  • Provide executive oversight of dispensing operations across chronic, rare, orphan, oncology, immunology, inflammatory, pulmonary, neurology, and gene/cell therapy-adjacent therapeutic categories.
  • Drive patient experience, adherence, persistence, and therapy outcomes.
  • Ensure operational readiness for emerging specialty medications, limited distribution drugs, manufacturer programs, and innovative care models.
  • Lead network optimization and operational scalability to support national expansion.
  • Serve as executive sponsor for specialty operations digital transformation initiatives.
  • Champion enterprise automation strategies using artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics, robotic process automation, workflow intelligence, and patient engagement technologies.
  • Modernize specialty pharmacy operating models to improve efficiency, quality, productivity, forecasting, patient engagement, and workforce effectiveness.
  • Create a data-driven operating environment with real-time operational dashboards, predictive performance metrics, and advanced analytics.
  • Establish a culture of operational excellence using Lean, Six Sigma, process engineering, and continuous improvement methodologies.
  • Lead enterprise initiatives for productivity improvement, cycle-time reduction, capacity optimization, quality enhancement, and cost reduction.
  • Implement standardized performance management frameworks and enterprise key performance indicator governance.
  • Ensure accountability for operational, service, quality, compliance, and financial results.
  • Lead a large national organization comprising vice presidents, regional leaders, directors, pharmacists, operations leaders, revenue cycle teams, reimbursement specialists, and support functions.
  • Build and develop a high-performance leadership team to support sustained growth and future expansion.
  • Attract, mentor, retain, and develop executive and emerging leadership talent.
  • Foster a culture centered on accountability, innovation, patient focus, collaboration, and execution excellence.
  • Partner with the EVP of Specialty Sales & Solutions to support manufacturer, payer, provider, health system, and strategic growth initiatives.
  • Support diligence and integration activities related to acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and new business opportunities.
  • Translate market trends, competitive intelligence, and customer feedback into operational capabilities that create competitive advantage.
  • Represent the company with manufacturers, payers, health systems, accreditation organizations, and industry associations.
  • Ensure compliance with federal, state, and regulatory requirements governing specialty pharmacy operations.
  • Maintain accreditation readiness and operational excellence related to URAC, ACHC, NABP, and other applicable standards.
  • Oversee patient safety, pharmacy quality programs, audit readiness, and enterprise risk management activities.
  • Ensure operations adhere to legal, ethical, clinical, and regulatory standards.
  • Meet travel requirements of 25–40%.

Desired Qualifications

  • A master's degree is strongly preferred; life sciences is a preferred bachelor's-degree field.
  • An MBA, MHA, R.Ph, PharmD, or other advanced healthcare/business degree is highly desirable.
  • 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.

About the Company

Option Care Health

Largest independent home infusion therapy provider

Option Care Health is the largest independent infusion services provider in the United States, delivering infusion therapies at home and other alternate-site locations. A team of about 7,000 teammates, including 4,500 clinicians, supports patients with acute and chronic conditions across all 50 states. Clinicians visit patients at home or other approved sites to administer infusion therapies, manage care, and coordinate with care teams, aided by clinical leadership and national scale. Its goal is to expand access to infusion therapy and improve care quality by offering clinician-led services beyond hospital settings.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Bannockburn, IL
Founded
1979

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