Senior Program Manager, Patient Services
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Job Description
Senior program manager leading governance, vendors, budgets, and operations for Keenova’s patient access and support services. Driving better therapy access for patients, care partners, and physicians.
Responsibilities:
- Provide day-to-day organizational oversight for the Patient Services team and activities
- Lead project management for patient service activities, including deliverables, meetings, timelines, status updates, and risk reporting
- Serve as the main point of contact for third parties, agencies, and patient material vendors
- Track and manage purchase orders and invoices for patient services programs
- Manage patient support materials through promotional resource committee workflows, including development, review, submission, approval communication, and expiry tracking
- Partner with IT and system teams to deploy patient service materials and roll them out to vendor end users
- Lead enterprise-level planning, governance, prioritization, and execution of strategic patient services initiatives
- Provide strategic oversight and performance management for external vendors and HUB partners, including KPI and SLA management
- Own budget forecasting, accrual management, expense tracking, and financial planning
- Develop executive dashboards, scorecards, and business reviews for senior leadership
- Lead root cause analyses, risk assessments, and complex issue resolution
- Lead process optimization, operational excellence, and change management initiatives
- Serve as a subject matter expert in reimbursement, patient access, affordability, and patient support operations
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum 8–10 years of progressive experience in patient services, reimbursement, access, affordability programs, HUB operations, or related pharmaceutical support services, including leadership of complex cross-functional initiatives
- Rare disease experience strongly preferred
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Excellent problem-solving abilities using process mindset and analytics
- Strong collaboration, project management, organizational, and detail-orientation skills
- Understanding of benefit designs, payer processes, prior authorization, and appeal processes
- Expertise in patient services operations, reimbursement support models, affordability programs, specialty pharmacy operations, and HUB services
- Mastery in cross-functional leadership, executive communication, stakeholder influence, and program governance
- Strong executive presence and ability to influence decisions without direct authority
- Master’s degree, MBA, PMP certification, or equivalent advanced professional designation preferred
- Must be willing to travel and work long and/or irregular work hours as necessary
- Dedication to helping improve patient lives
Benefits:
- Competitive pay and benefits through a Total Rewards package
- Bonus eligibility in accordance with the applicable program


















