Yolanda Baez

About Yolanda Baez

Yolanda Baez is a Regional Director of Acquisitions at CVS Health where she develops and executes strategies to identify, negotiate and secure independent retail pharmacy acquisitions within the New England market. As the director of acquisitions, Yolanda’s goals are to identify acquisition opportunities which maximize potential retention, script growth, margin, and profitability. Her responsibilities in this role include evaluating the value of pharmacy volume and retention of independent pharmacies to purchase, completing due diligence to investigate instances related to disciplinary actions, controlled substance diversion, and third-party plan exclusions and partnering and communicating with legal, marketing, real estate, community relations, pharmacy operations, and inventory departments to maximize retention and protect the company from exposure to liability or risk. Yolanda’s prior experience includes a background in information technology and retail pharmacy. Prior to joining the Acquisitions team at CVS Health. Yolanda was the Senior IT Usability Manager at CVS Health where she led a team which collaborated with stakeholders across the business to optimize the CVS pharmacy computer system priorities and projects. Yolanda is a registered pharmacist in the State of Rhode Island and has worked at several CVS Pharmacy retail locations throughout the state of Rhode Island.Yolanda received her Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Rhode Island.

Experience

1. Regional Director of Acquistions

   CVS Health

   Aug 2015 — Present · US

   Develop and execute strategies to identify, negotiate, and secure Independent Pharmacy Acquisitions within New England and Florida that maximizes potential retention, script growth, margin, and profitability.• Evaluate the value of pharmacy volume and retention of independent pharmacies to purchase by using a financial return on investment model that will increase script growth and (EBITDA). • Complete due diligence to investigate instances related to disciplinary actions, controlled substance diversion, and third-party plan exclusions. • Factor into the audit process lease “tie-up” arrangements and remodel costs. • Partner and communicate with legal, marketing, real estate, community relations, pharmacy operations, and inventory departments to maximize retention and protect the company from exposure to liability or risk. • Achieve targeted file-buy goals as determined by VP Real Estate, including number of deals, number of scripts, and retention percentages. • Align with Division VP to identify strategic partnership opportunities, maximize efficiencies, and keep acquisitions fully aligned in support of team imperatives. • Partnered with the finance team to provide valuation process for Multi-Dose Packaging prescription services. • Created a simplified monthly status update for the Division VP to provide reporting on acquisitions in the division. o The template created has been used as a base for colleagues to provide status updates for other DVPs.

Education

• University of Rhode Island

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Pharmacy

  1990 — 1994

• University of Rhode Island

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

  2011 — 2014

• Human Factors (HFI)

  CUA (Certified Usability Analyst)

  2013 — 2013

Skills

• Usability Testing
• Morae
• Prototype
• Public Speaking
• English
• Card Sorting
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Photoshop
• Rapid Prototyping
• Human Factors
• User Scenarios
• Pharmacy
• Windows
• Outlook
• User Acceptance Testing
• User Experience
• Adobe Captivate
• Persona Creation
• Wire Framing
• Customer Service
• Healthcare
• Negotiation
• Microsoft Office
• Sales
• Visio
• User Interface Design
• Facilitations
• End User Training
• Research
• Management
• Team Building
• Microsoft Word
• Spanish
• Teaching
• Eye Tracking