[Hiring] PBM Operations Associate @Rightway

Role Description

Our pharmacy benefit management (PBM) offering represents an important growth area for Rightway. Helping clients better manage pharmacy spend to make drugs more affordable for their employees and dependents is critical to their business sustainability. Rightway is responsible for designing, building, and operating a new-to-the-world PBM model based on our core tenets: fairness & transparency, unlocking the supply chain, supporting the physician-patient relationship, and utilizing navigation to empower consumers.

The PBM Operations Associate is a member of the Rightway Data Operations team, reporting to the Manager, Data Operations. This role provides day-to-day support of eligibility, accumulator, and claims extract file feeds and data — ensuring files are received, processed, and delivered accurately and on time.

What You'll Do

• Support the execution of eligibility and accumulator file feeds and interfaces, from implementation through ongoing operations and maintenance.
• Support claims extract file feeds, helping ensure data is accurate, complete, and delivered to external stakeholders on schedule.
• Serve as a day-to-day resource for eligibility, accumulator, and claims extract data needs.
• Collaborate with engineering, client success, implementations, benefit administration, and other internal stakeholders to ensure eligibility, accumulator, and claims extract functions operate in accordance with requirements.
• Monitor downstream vendor feeds (e.g., ID card fulfillment) and third-party integrations (e.g., health plans, TPAs, medical vendors) to help ensure deliverables are met on time; escalate and assist in troubleshooting issues as they arise.
• Perform research and support troubleshooting of day-to-day inquiries or issues related to eligibility, accumulators, and claims extract/data feeds.
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date documentation of eligibility, accumulator, and claims extract processes and internal controls.
• Additional responsibilities may be assigned as business needs evolve. Please note that during peak seasons, such as open enrollment and plan renewals, this role may require additional hours to help meet critical deadlines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred. Relevant experience considered for exceptional candidates.
• 2-4 years of experience in healthcare operations, PBM, health plan, or data/eligibility operations; entry-level candidates with strong analytical skills are encouraged to apply.
• Detail-oriented, organized, strong sense of ownership, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities, comfortable learning new systems and platforms, consultative with internal and external stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of Excel; ability to research and troubleshoot data discrepancies; eligibility, accumulator, or claims file feed experience.

Compensation

• $65,000 - $85,000 annually, in addition to bonus and equity.
• Compensation offered will be determined by geographic location, experience, and qualifications.

Cybersecurity Awareness Notice

In response to ongoing and industry-wide fraudulent recruitment activities (i.e., job scams), Rightway wants to inform potential candidates that we will only contact them from the @rightwayhealthcare.com email domain. We will never ask for bank details or deposits of any kind as a condition of employment.

Company Description

Rightway is on a mission to harmonize healthcare for everyone, everywhere. Our products guide patients to the best care and medications by inserting clinicians and pharmacists into a patient’s care journey through a modern, mobile app. Rightway is a front door to healthcare, giving patients the tools they need along with on-demand access to Rightway health guides, human experts that answer their questions and manage the frustrating parts of healthcare for them.

• Since its founding in 2017, Rightway has raised over $200mm from investors including Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, and Tiger Global.
• We’re headquartered in New York City, with satellite offices in Denver and Dallas.
• Our clients rely on us to transform the healthcare experience, improve outcomes for their teams, and decrease their healthcare costs.

How We Live Our Values to Our Teammates

• We are human, first.
• We redefine what is possible.
• We debate then commit.
• We cultivate grit.
• We seek to delight.

Rightway is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer that believes in the strength of diverse thought, beliefs, backgrounds, and education. We foster an inclusive culture where differences are celebrated to drive the best business decisions possible. We do not discriminate on any basis protected by applicable law. All employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, need, and performance.