Gloria L Díaz is a driven senior leader with over 28 years of experience in pharmacy retail, healthcare contracting, business strategy transformation, complex negotiations, pharmacy operations, product development, and service delivery to high-impact external corporations. She is a skilled strategic negotiator who considers outcomes for all stakeholders involved.
Currently, she leads Health & Wellness business development at Walmart, Inc., where she has a strong track record of delivering P&L results in the growth and transformation of multi-billion-dollar businesses, leveraging retail, mail-order, and specialty pharmacy contracts to reduce total healthcare costs for self-insured employers. Her extensive expertise encompasses Pharmacy Benefit Manager negotiations, managed health care, network development, and direct-to-employer (DTE) business expansion.
Ms. Díaz’s many talents set her apart as a reputation warrior for Walmart’s Health & Wellness Programs with external and internal customers. She has worked tirelessly to establish Walmart as a leader in the health care industry, bringing innovative business and savings solutions to Fortune 100 companies, as well as state and locally run government institutions. Ms. Diaz was a key team member in the implementation of Walmart’s $4 Prescription Program in September of 2006, the first of its kind on-site pharmacy at Delta Airlines corporate office and Gulfstream Aerospace and Toyota Motors N America (TMNA). She developed a pet pharmacy program at the point of sale, unique in the industry, to date is currently offered at Walmart retail pharmacies only
Ms. Díaz has worked as Director of Sales for Option Care, in which she was responsible for developing and growing the influx of infusion patients and specialty pharmacy in all hospitals in Florida. Prior to working for Option Care, Ms. Díaz was a Sr Director & contract negotiator in the Network Management Division for United Health Care, where she was responsible for the negotiation and implementation of all hospital and ancillary contracts in the commercial sector, and the risk accounts for their Medicare products.
Ms. Díaz holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Miami and a master’s degree in business administration; she has two post-graduate degrees, in Health Care Administration and Global Management. Ms. Díaz is also a paralegal and a certified medical manager. She has been with Walmart since July 2006.