Forus
Strategic Partnerships Lead
New York office · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 30 days ago
Business DevelopmentNegotiationSupply ChainResearchLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- You will work with payers, PBMs, pharmacies, wholesalers, GPOs, and other relevant industry organizations.
- This is not a traditional business development role focused on accumulating partnerships
- success means creating durable strategic value through commercial agreements, integrations, operating coordination, data exchange, and broader ecosystem alignment.
Responsibilities
- We already support patients across more than 80% of ZIP codes and partner with 5 of the 10 largest biopharma companies in the world.
- We raised $160M+ from leading investors to build an exceptional team and unlock the full scale of the opportunity.
- As Strategic Partnerships Lead at Forus, you will build the relationships that allow us to operate and scale across the complex infrastructure surrounding medication access.
- You will determine which relationships can materially accelerate our growth, expand our capabilities, or remove barriers for providers and patients, then own those partnerships from initial strategy through execution.
- Develop a deep understanding of each partner's incentives, priorities, and constraints, and use that understanding to structure mutually valuable relationships
- Own partnerships end-to-end, including sourcing, strategic assessment, negotiation, implementation, governance, and expansion
- Track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals
Compensation
- We provide competitive compensation with meaningful equity (for full-time employees).
Benefits
- 7-12 years of experience in healthcare partnerships, business development, investing, strategy, consulting, or an operating role involving complex external relationships
- Deep understanding of the healthcare ecosystem, ideally including payers, PBMs, pharmacies, wholesalers, health technology infrastructure, or medication access
- Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance.
- Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody.
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO) and 16 weeks of parental leave.
- 401K plan setup, FSA option, commuter benefits, and DashPass.
- Develop Forus' partnership strategy across payers, PBMs, pharmacies, wholesalers, GPOs, and other healthcare organizations
- Build trusted relationships with senior leaders across complex and highly matrixed healthcare organizations
Company info
- Forus is building an AI-powered network that connects doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma to accelerate new science to patients.
- Our platform automates the complexity between a doctor prescribing a medicine and a patient starting treatment, including insurance coverage, financial assistance, and supply chain navigation. We provide this support free to doctors and patients, helping them get life-changing medicine faster, cheaper, and easier. The resulting network enables biopharma companies to design better research, launch new drugs more effectively, and invest in harder-to-treat conditions.
- Forus has exceptional product-market fit and is growing rapidly through organic adoption:
- Accelerating scale: We already support patients across more than 80% of ZIP codes and partner with 5 of the 10 largest biopharma companies in the world.
- Our platform automates the complexity between a doctor prescribing a medicine and a patient starting treatment, including insurance coverage, financial assistance, and supply chain navigation.
- We provide this support free to doctors and patients, helping them get life-changing medicine faster, cheaper, and easier.
- The resulting network enables biopharma companies to design better research, launch new drugs more effectively, and invest in harder-to-treat conditions.
- AI-native, durable model: Our business becomes stronger as AI improves, as every new doctor, patient, and partner makes the network more valuable.
- Backing to build for the long term: We raised $160M+ from leading investors to build an exceptional team and unlock the full scale of the opportunity.
- Our number one priority is scaling to market demand.
- We are looking for individuals who are high horsepower, high throughput, and hyper resourceful to help us increase capacity and grow.
- We move fast and need to move faster.
- If we succeed, science will be the only limit to medicine.
- All full-time roles are in person in New York.
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