Activate and Manage External Partnerships: Identify, evaluate, and engage targeted external stakeholders - such as transparent PBMs, benefit consultants, alternative reimbursement players, and other non-traditional market access partners - to inform PBM disruption opportunities, shape new model concepts, and accelerate readiness for pilot consideration. This leader translates emerging signals (e.g., PBMs, policy shifts, ecosystem changes, new technologies) into actionable innovation concepts and new business models, and activates external partnerships to accelerate development.