Vice President, Reputation and External Affairs Strategy - REMOTE

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Job Posting Title

Vice President, Reputation and External Affairs Strategy - REMOTE

Job Description

The Vice President Reputation & External Affairs Strategy is responsible for building and leading an enterprise-level reputation intelligence and strategy capability in support of Prime’s External Affairs organization. This role serves as the strategic hub for Prime’s reputation, policy, and issue advocacy strategy and serves as the strategic integrator across External Affairs functions, including Corporate Communications, Public Affairs and Government Advocacy, and State Government Affairs.

Responsibilities

• Provide work direction, mentoring, and strategic oversight to a team of research analysts and external affairs professionals; partner closely with other senior leaders to ensure alignment with enterprise risk considerations
• Direct and synthesize research related to Prime’s reputation, industry dynamics, and policy environment, and oversee the development of the corporate and issue messaging and External Affairs’ reputation benchmarking framework and metrics reporting
• Translate research and internal and client intelligence into decision-ready guidance, issue playbooks, and executive-level frameworks that support consistent and effective External Affairs engagement, providing real-time guidance and direction to ensure External Affairs activities, messaging and public positioning remain aligned with enterprise reputation and policy strategy
• Serve as a strategic counselor to senior executives and cross-functional leaders, aligning reputation strategy and intelligence with the company’s overall business and policy objectives
• Own and evolve Prime’s enterprise reputation and narrative framework, including stakeholder expectations, trust drivers, core messages, tone and response principles, escalation thresholds, and decision criteria used across External Affairs teams
• Support the buildout of a discrete sub-function focused on gathering and analyzing insights and translating intelligence into a reputation and advocacy strategy, with responsibility for cross-functional coordination, business impact assessment, and communication regarding reputational and political threats in alignment with client-facing teams and product/model innovation activity
• Lead early-warning, landscape-scanning, and real-time reporting across legislative, regulatory, policy, market, competitive, and media developments, including assessment of potential implications and likelihood of impact, issue diagnosis, reputational risk assessment, and scenario analysis to inform enterprise-level prioritization, positioning, and response/preparedness
• Advance Prime’s external thought leadership and policy communication in key forums and oversee proactive communications and crisis preparedness to strengthen reputation and stakeholder confidence
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in communications, public affairs, public policy, political science or related area of study, or equivalent combination of education and/or work experience; High school diploma or GED required
• 15 years of work experience in reputation strategy, strategic intelligence, research or corporate affairs
• 10 years of leadership/people management experience
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without the need for work visa or residency sponsorship

Additional Qualifications

• Strong understanding of the legislative and regulatory processes
• Strategic thinker with the ability to influence and drive change
• Excellent presentation, interpersonal, consultative and influencing skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience advising senior leaders on complex, high-risk issues within highly regulated or highly scrutinized industries
• Experience working closely with public affairs, government affairs, and corporate communications teams in complex organizations
• Experience in healthcare, pharmacy benefit management, health insurance, or other highly regulated industries

Every employee must understand, comply with and attest to the security responsibilities and security controls unique to their job, and comply with all applicable legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements and internal policies and procedures

Every employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the job and, if requested, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship. In addition, Prime retains the right to change or assign other duties to this job.

Potential pay for this position ranges from $217,000.00 - $369,000.00 based on experience and skills.

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Prime Therapeutics LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We encourage diverse candidates to apply, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other legally protected class under federal, state, or local law. _ _

We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives including qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records and any qualified applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in accordance with the law.

Prime Therapeutics LLC is a Tobacco-Free Workplace employer.

Positions will be posted for a minimum of five consecutive workdays.

At Prime Therapeutics (Prime), we are a different kind of PBM. We’re reimagining pharmacy solutions to provide the care we would want for our loved ones. That purpose energizes our team and creates limitless opportunities to make a difference.

We know that people make all the difference. If you’re ready for a purpose-driven career and are passionate about simplifying health care, let’s build the future of pharmacy together.

Prime Therapeutics LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We encourage diverse candidates to apply, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other legally protected class under federal, state, or local law.     

We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives including qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records and any qualified applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in accordance with the law.

Prime Therapeutics LLC is a Tobacco-Free Workplace employer.

If you are an applicant with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact Human Resources at 1.866.469.1257 or email [email protected].

If you have questions about this posting, please contact [email protected]