Overview
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Manager of Inpatient Pharmacy Operations to lead and optimize pharmacy services within a high-acuity hospital environment. This pivotal role involves overseeing daily inpatient pharmacy functions, ensuring medication safety, regulatory compliance, and delivering exceptional patient care. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in clinical pharmacy, hospital operations, and team leadership, driving continuous improvement in pharmacy workflows and patient outcomes. Join us to make a meaningful impact on patient health through innovative pharmacy management and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate all inpatient pharmacy operations, including medication dispensing, compounding, and distribution across various hospital units.
- Ensure adherence to pharmaceutical regulatory standards and hospital policies to maintain compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
- Creates and advocates for developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works with leaders and employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; hires, trains, and develops talent for growth opportunities; strategically evaluates talent for succession planning; sets performance management guidelines and expectations across teams / units. Oversees implementation, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams; motivates teams to meet business objectives. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making; fosters access to stakeholders.
- Manages designated units or teams by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed; partners with key stakeholders and business leaders to ensure products and/or services meet requirements and expectations while aligning with departmental strategies. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; assumes responsibility for decision making; fosters direct reports to resolve escalated issues as appropriate.
- Communicates goals and objectives; incorporates resources, costs, and forecasts into team and unit plans; ensures matrixed resources are fulfilling service or performance requirements across reporting lines. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams and units to operate in alignment with operational and business objectives.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Doctorate of Pharmacy or equivalent degree (e.g., Bachelors of Pharmacy from a School of Pharmacy) AND completion of a Post-Graduate Year 1 (PGY1) residency at time of hire
- Minimum three (3) years of experience as a Pharmacist and/or Pharmacist Intern in pharmacy or a directly related field OR Doctorate of Pharmacy or equivalent degree (e.g., Bachelors of Pharmacy from a School of Pharmacy) AND minimum five (5) years of experience as a Pharmacist and/or Pharmacist Intern in pharmacy or a directly related field.
- Pharmacist License (Washington) required at hire
- National Provider Identifier within 6 months of hire
- Minimum two (2) year of experience managing operational or project budgets.
- Minimum three (3) years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
Join us as a Senior Manager of Inpatient Pharmacy Operations to lead transformative initiatives that enhance patient safety and elevate the standard of inpatient pharmaceutical care!
Pay: $231,000.00 - $268,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Relocation assistance
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Do you have experience in inpatient pharmacy operations? if so How many years?
Do you Hold Pharmacist License (Washington)?
Work Location: In person
