Pharmacy Manager Jobs in Georgia
Pharmacy Manager jobs in Georgia are in strong demand, concentrated in retail pharmacy chains, hospital systems, and integrated health networks across a range of levels from staff pharmacist to senior pharmacy director. Atlanta, Savannah, and Augusta lead hiring activity, anchored by large employers such as Piedmont Healthcare, Wellstar Health System, and CVS Health, which maintain significant operations throughout the state. The most consistently sought specialties are ambulatory care, specialty pharmacy, and clinical pharmacy management. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Top employerWalgreens
Top cityAtlanta, GA
Cities hiring36
Work type67% On-site
Top industryRetail
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Manager, Pharmacy Operations, Clinical Utilization & Intelligence
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Kaiser Permanente
Manager, Pharmacy Operations, Clinical Utilization & Intelligence
Atlanta, Georgia
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Pharmacy Operations Manager - Oncology and Ambulatory Infusion
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Wellstar Health System
Pharmacy Operations Manager - Oncology and Ambulatory Infusion
Hiram, Georgia
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Pharmacy Network Manager
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ProCare RX
Pharmacy Network Manager
Gainesville, Georgia
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Pharmacy Operations Manager
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Walgreens
Pharmacy Operations Manager
Warner Robins, Georgia
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Pharmacy Operations Manager
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Walgreens
Pharmacy Operations Manager
Stonecrest, Georgia
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Manager, Pharmacy Operations, Clinical Utilization & Intelligence
Kaiser Permanente·Atlanta, Georgia
Job functions:
$212k - $245k/yr
Bachelor's degree
10,000+ employees
Job Description
Job Summary:
In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is also responsible for leveraging an advanced understanding of the drugs coming into the market and informing the organization which drugs to use; managing the documentation for pharmacists to aid in the decision-making of drug administration; developing the agenda and ensuring the execution of the Pharmacist and Therapy committee, approving agenda items, policy creations, and guiding physicians on deciding the drugs to use within KP; overseeing the review of trends by forecasting and identifying incoming drugs within the next five years; overseeing the review of recommendations for pricing, usage, budgeting, and display of new drugs; consulting with the utilization team leaders to identify if the drugs are equally efficacious and safe; identifying gaps in research and overseeing the review of research of niche drugs (i.e., limited benefit coverage and FDA coverage) to provide recommendations to physicians, promoting novel drugs to gain approval of niche drug(s) to support the physician(s) usage of the drug(s); managing the creation of training materials for the PGY2 Residency Program and providing guidance to residents; collaborating with regional pharmacy, therapeutics committees. and physicians to develop guidelines to support patient care and recommendations on best practices; and managing the creation and review of policies and educating physicians on how best to use gene drug interactions; managing the documentation of insights on how drug(s) are currently being used, what areas are using the drug(s), and pulling from additional data sources; leading cost-effective initiatives within KP, ensuring drugs are high quality, safe, work efficiently and cost-effective; managing the rollout of new drug(s), ensuring proper usage and successful implementation across KP; leading the proper packaging of the clinical evidence summaries from the data to promote the drug(s); mentoring others on the creation of promotional content (e.g., messaging in KP Health Connect, send electronic messaging to the physicians) to introduce new drugs; managing the integration of new drugs once physicians review and approve them, managing the process of moving patients to the new cost-effective drug; and resolving and addressing concerns to reduce cost through internal and external partnerships.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Provides developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works closely with employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; develops and provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations. Leads, adapts, implements, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance, and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making.
- Manages designated work unit or team 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. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; determines and ensures processes and methodologies are implemented; resolves escalated issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures progress. Fosters the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives.
- Manages teams in creation of strategies and concepts to support pharmacy and healthcare professionals by: teaching team members on the usage of analytics and informatics to track prescription use data; leading in meetings of regional pharmacy and therapeutics committees to develop support for front-line operations; and exercising a patient focus throughout ones leadership and coaching team members on how to identify patient related issues, challenges, possible improvements and encourages team members to escalate patient related safety issues for quick resolution.
- Leads team members engaged in specific operational activities focused on a specific area or set of pharmacies by: leading interdisciplinary teams to implement and evaluate pharmacotherapy safety practices and initiatives; implementing pharmacy operations initiatives and programs that directly support the day to day functioning across pharmacies and provides guidance to team members on the rollout, staffing, education, etc. requirements; and overseeing a broad set of operational needs (e.g., workflow management, policy management, systems improvement, etc.), ensuring and developing policy compliance standards, and encouraging team members to identify possible process or system improvements.
- Contributes to service, affordability, people, quality of care, and regulatory pharmacy goals by: guiding teams to create, designing, helping to implement strategic plan to support improve service, quality, people, affordability, and regulatory initiatives; reviewing recommendations and guiding implementation from teams to support the creation of tools and dashboards to enable implementation of new programs and initiatives; modeling and ensuring team conducts sweeps of new laws and rules from regulatory agencies and ensures application into operations (e.g., FAQs to markets); building and socializing new tools to ensure awareness and use; evaluating inputs into for accuracy and monitors building accountability dashboard to ensure rules are followed; and overseeing team output and operational goals in adherence to key affordability metrics.
- Serves as the lead subject matter expert for quality improvement processes and regulations within assigned areas or teams by: providing consultation on the interpretation and interaction of current policies, and how they interact with the current climate, and potential changes to regulations and legislation; serving and/or leading on committees and projects to draw guidelines on improvement practice and specific improvement initiatives; implementing set strategies and approving integrations of teams suggestions towards quality improvements for medication safety; reviewing multiple teams research and reports that display innovation and promise; and empowering team patients to anticipate issues and weighs practical and technical considerations in addressing issues and coordinates with the appropriate stakeholders to develop resolutions; collaborating with senior health care providers to gather relevant sources on potential changes within the market and upcoming new drugs; guiding teams to use strategies to ensure member, patients and/or healthcare providers understand appropriate use, application, and interactions of prescribed medication and provides drug information to relevant healthcare providers; driving application of strategies to ensure achievement of the member financial and therapeutic objectives; and evaluating service areas reports of member data to assess overall plan outcomes and carrying out actions plans to affect change.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Doctorate of Pharmacy or equivalent degree (e.g., Bachelors of Pharmacy from a School of Pharmacy) AND minimum one (1) year of experience as a Pharmacist and/or Pharmacist Intern or a directly related field.
- Minimum three (3) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports
-
Pharmacist License (from any state) required at hire
- Pharmacist License (Georgia) within 12 months of hire
Additional Requirements:
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Confidentiality; Health Care Compliance; Health Care Policy; Stakeholder Management; Vendor Management; Service Focus; Workplace Safety Awareness; Crisis Management
Preferred Qualifications:
- Completion of a PGY1 residency.
- Three (3) years of experience in clinical utilization processes.
PrimaryLocation : Georgia,Atlanta,Regional Office - 10 Piedmont
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun
WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-GA-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level : Manager with Direct Reports
Job Category : Pharmaceutical Services
Department : Regional Office - 10 Piedmont - Clinical Pharm- Admin - 2808
Travel : No
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
Kaiser Permanente
Manager, Pharmacy Operations, Clinical Utilization & Intelligence
Atlanta, Georgia
Added 3d ago10,000+ employees
Job functions:
$212k - $245k/yr
Bachelor's degree
Job Description
Job Summary:
In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is also responsible for leveraging an advanced understanding of the drugs coming into the market and informing the organization which drugs to use; managing the documentation for pharmacists to aid in the decision-making of drug administration; developing the agenda and ensuring the execution of the Pharmacist and Therapy committee, approving agenda items, policy creations, and guiding physicians on deciding the drugs to use within KP; overseeing the review of trends by forecasting and identifying incoming drugs within the next five years; overseeing the review of recommendations for pricing, usage, budgeting, and display of new drugs; consulting with the utilization team leaders to identify if the drugs are equally efficacious and safe; identifying gaps in research and overseeing the review of research of niche drugs (i.e., limited benefit coverage and FDA coverage) to provide recommendations to physicians, promoting novel drugs to gain approval of niche drug(s) to support the physician(s) usage of the drug(s); managing the creation of training materials for the PGY2 Residency Program and providing guidance to residents; collaborating with regional pharmacy, therapeutics committees. and physicians to develop guidelines to support patient care and recommendations on best practices; and managing the creation and review of policies and educating physicians on how best to use gene drug interactions; managing the documentation of insights on how drug(s) are currently being used, what areas are using the drug(s), and pulling from additional data sources; leading cost-effective initiatives within KP, ensuring drugs are high quality, safe, work efficiently and cost-effective; managing the rollout of new drug(s), ensuring proper usage and successful implementation across KP; leading the proper packaging of the clinical evidence summaries from the data to promote the drug(s); mentoring others on the creation of promotional content (e.g., messaging in KP Health Connect, send electronic messaging to the physicians) to introduce new drugs; managing the integration of new drugs once physicians review and approve them, managing the process of moving patients to the new cost-effective drug; and resolving and addressing concerns to reduce cost through internal and external partnerships.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Provides developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works closely with employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; develops and provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations. Leads, adapts, implements, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance, and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making.
- Manages designated work unit or team 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. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; determines and ensures processes and methodologies are implemented; resolves escalated issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures progress. Fosters the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives.
- Manages teams in creation of strategies and concepts to support pharmacy and healthcare professionals by: teaching team members on the usage of analytics and informatics to track prescription use data; leading in meetings of regional pharmacy and therapeutics committees to develop support for front-line operations; and exercising a patient focus throughout ones leadership and coaching team members on how to identify patient related issues, challenges, possible improvements and encourages team members to escalate patient related safety issues for quick resolution.
- Leads team members engaged in specific operational activities focused on a specific area or set of pharmacies by: leading interdisciplinary teams to implement and evaluate pharmacotherapy safety practices and initiatives; implementing pharmacy operations initiatives and programs that directly support the day to day functioning across pharmacies and provides guidance to team members on the rollout, staffing, education, etc. requirements; and overseeing a broad set of operational needs (e.g., workflow management, policy management, systems improvement, etc.), ensuring and developing policy compliance standards, and encouraging team members to identify possible process or system improvements.
- Contributes to service, affordability, people, quality of care, and regulatory pharmacy goals by: guiding teams to create, designing, helping to implement strategic plan to support improve service, quality, people, affordability, and regulatory initiatives; reviewing recommendations and guiding implementation from teams to support the creation of tools and dashboards to enable implementation of new programs and initiatives; modeling and ensuring team conducts sweeps of new laws and rules from regulatory agencies and ensures application into operations (e.g., FAQs to markets); building and socializing new tools to ensure awareness and use; evaluating inputs into for accuracy and monitors building accountability dashboard to ensure rules are followed; and overseeing team output and operational goals in adherence to key affordability metrics.
- Serves as the lead subject matter expert for quality improvement processes and regulations within assigned areas or teams by: providing consultation on the interpretation and interaction of current policies, and how they interact with the current climate, and potential changes to regulations and legislation; serving and/or leading on committees and projects to draw guidelines on improvement practice and specific improvement initiatives; implementing set strategies and approving integrations of teams suggestions towards quality improvements for medication safety; reviewing multiple teams research and reports that display innovation and promise; and empowering team patients to anticipate issues and weighs practical and technical considerations in addressing issues and coordinates with the appropriate stakeholders to develop resolutions; collaborating with senior health care providers to gather relevant sources on potential changes within the market and upcoming new drugs; guiding teams to use strategies to ensure member, patients and/or healthcare providers understand appropriate use, application, and interactions of prescribed medication and provides drug information to relevant healthcare providers; driving application of strategies to ensure achievement of the member financial and therapeutic objectives; and evaluating service areas reports of member data to assess overall plan outcomes and carrying out actions plans to affect change.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Doctorate of Pharmacy or equivalent degree (e.g., Bachelors of Pharmacy from a School of Pharmacy) AND minimum one (1) year of experience as a Pharmacist and/or Pharmacist Intern or a directly related field.
- Minimum three (3) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports
-
Pharmacist License (from any state) required at hire
- Pharmacist License (Georgia) within 12 months of hire
Additional Requirements:
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Confidentiality; Health Care Compliance; Health Care Policy; Stakeholder Management; Vendor Management; Service Focus; Workplace Safety Awareness; Crisis Management
Preferred Qualifications:
- Completion of a PGY1 residency.
- Three (3) years of experience in clinical utilization processes.
PrimaryLocation : Georgia,Atlanta,Regional Office - 10 Piedmont
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun
WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-GA-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level : Manager with Direct Reports
Job Category : Pharmaceutical Services
Department : Regional Office - 10 Piedmont - Clinical Pharm- Admin - 2808
Travel : No
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
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Where Georgia roles are concentrated, by current openings.
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1 jobGainesville
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1 jobStone Mountain
1 jobPharmacy Manager Job Market in Georgia
A snapshot from current Georgia openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Walgreens19
- CVS Health8
- Walmart3
- Ingles Markets3
- Piedmont Healthcare3
Top Industries Hiring
- Retail
- Insurance
What Georgia Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in pharmacy manager jobs across Georgia.
- Active pharmacist license in good standing with the Georgia State Board of Pharmacy
- Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an ACPE-accredited college of pharmacy
- At least two years of supervisory or lead pharmacist experience in a retail or clinical setting
- Current or eligible DEA registration and applicable controlled substance certifications
- Proficiency with pharmacy management systems such as PioneerRx, QS/1, or McKesson
- Strong knowledge of Georgia-specific dispensing regulations and state Board of Pharmacy rules
Pharmacy Manager Jobs in Georgia: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a pharmacy manager in Georgia?
You become a pharmacy manager in Georgia by first earning a Doctor of Pharmacy degree, passing the NAPLEX and MPJE licensure exams, and obtaining an active license from the Georgia State Board of Pharmacy. Most employers require at least two years of staff or lead pharmacist experience before moving into a management role. Completing a PGY-1 or PGY-2 pharmacy residency strengthens candidacy considerably, particularly for hospital and health system positions.
Which companies hire pharmacy managers in Georgia?
Employers hiring pharmacy managers in Georgia right now include Walgreens, CVS Health, and Walmart, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of October 2026. Georgia's density of large integrated health systems and major retail pharmacy networks means consistent openings appear across both clinical and community pharmacy settings throughout the state.
Which Georgia cities have the most pharmacy manager jobs?
Atlanta, Macon, and Dalton have the most pharmacy manager openings in Georgia. Atlanta dominates because of its concentration of major health systems, corporate pharmacy headquarters, and specialty pharmacy operations, while Augusta and Savannah see steady demand driven by academic medical centers, regional hospital networks, and growing outpatient clinic infrastructure in those metro areas.
Are there remote pharmacy manager jobs in Georgia?
Yes, but they're rare. About 33% of pharmacy manager openings tied to Georgia are remote or hybrid as of October 2026, reflecting how hands-on and site-dependent most pharmacy management roles are by nature. The parts of the role most likely to allow remote work are administrative functions such as formulary review, prior authorization oversight, and compliance reporting for specialty or managed care pharmacy operations.
How can I get hired as a pharmacy manager in Georgia with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is completing a PGY-1 pharmacy residency, which large Georgia employers such as Wellstar Health System, Emory Healthcare, and Augusta University Health actively offer to new graduates. From there, moving into a lead or relief pharmacist role builds the supervisory record most hiring managers require. Candidates who lack residency experience can pursue assistant pharmacy manager positions at retail chains, where advancement to manager is structured and common.
Where can I find and apply to pharmacy manager jobs in Georgia?
You can find and apply to pharmacy manager jobs in Georgia on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings across the state. Find roles that fit your experience and specialty focus, then apply directly to the employers posting them.
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