Pharmacy Manager Jobs in Oregon

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is also responsible for collaborating with other Acute Care Leaders to implement pharmacy strategic priorities and goals across all inpatient pharmacy practice settings; working closely with national, regional, and local pharmacy leadership to provide direction and oversight to teams on how to maintain and improve inpatient operational performance; ensuring multiple teams align to quality of pharmaceutical care and services across practice settings, with focus on inpatient pharmacy, and assure regulatory and corporate compliance; integrating and improving upon the organizations processes to assure the quality of pharmaceutical care and services across practice settings, with focus on inpatient pharmacy, and to assure regulatory and corporate compliance; establishing relationships with senior pharmacy leadership, Acute Care, and Infusion to evaluate consistent deployment of processes and tools to measure and ensure the quality of pharmaceutical care, operations, and service; assisting with strategic consultative feedback and recommendations to drug use management leadership to ensure appropriate use of pharmaceuticals, consistent implementations of drug use initiatives, and manage care management initiatives; working on the development of acute care pharmacy supervisory personnel in planning, developing, implementing, coordinating, and supervising services and functions provided by each pharmacy in area of responsibility including legal and regulatory requirements; maintaining and aiding to establish relationships with medical center leaders and staff (e.g., lab, nursing, physician partners/providers) to provide pharmaceutical consultative advice, oversight, and monitor execution of practices; synthesizing multiple objectives/strategic results and leading staff meetings, clinical practice meetings, and staff huddles to ensure alignment across teams; reviewing revisions and updates to compounding master formulas, manage formulary dispensing records and templates in Pharmacy dispensing programs; leading multiple teams, approving, and reviewing wide-spanning One link orders, recharges, and inventory to ensure drug availability and mitigate supply shortages across multiple service areas; and leading team and collaborating with internal and industry personnel to evaluate critical medical literature to validate, recommend, and implement updates to best practices and standards in drug therapy.

• 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.
• Oversees multiple teams to carry out implementation and development of drug therapy by: overseeing efforts for proper drug use management across a team, other managers and/or multiple locations; evaluating and facilitating high-impact content about utilization of medicine to senior leaders; collaborating with senior health care providers to gather relevant sources on potential changes within the market and upcoming new drugs; collaborating across teams and senior leaders to provide input and oversee complex pharmacotherapeutic drug regimen guidelines and trainings; 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.
• Oversees drug education and training efforts by: leading team to provide complex pharmacy and provider education to positively impact patient compliance and provider prescribing practices.
• Provides pharmaceutical patient care and drug therapy by: managing productive relationships with care providers and members; leading teams workflow and execution of comprehensive pharmaceutical information e.g., drug therapy, adverse effects, compliance, appropriate use, and handling); supervising implementation of therapeutic regimens and/or programs applicable across patients in multiple services while integrating patient-specific disease and drug information, current practice standards, ethical issues, and quality-of-life issues, and pharmacoeconomic principles; leading development, implementation, and coordination of regional, hospital, hospital-based, or ambulatory drug initiatives, other formulary management activities, and/or KP-related drug trials; facilitating implementation process, evaluating, and reporting utilization, as appropriate, of targeted medications and medication classes to senior managers, monitoring impact of initiative and novel work to assure safe, rational and cost-effective prescribing; managing processes to understand clinicians or department-level decisions, support, and feedback, strategizing further support for the drug use process; and leading improvements to and coordination of complex pharmaceutical care and optimal utilization of resources to and from hospital, acute, and ambulatory patient-care settings.
• Leads team to monitor services in compliance with state and federal laws, all regulatory bodies, established quality standards and organizational service standards by: leading adherence to all regulatory rules and regulations (e.g., Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA], State Board of Pharmacy, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA]) and relevant internal regional and national policies; driving team and self to maintain knowledge with policies and procedures and performs in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements and accreditation standards as they relate to the assigned department; managing investigation of, responses to, and resolution of complex escalated member inquiries and concerns from teams with innovation and ingenuity; and leading team to collaborate with physicians, other medical professionals, and health plan personnel to assess, resolve, and assure complex quality and process outcome measures.

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
• Attention to Detail
• Business Knowledge
• Communication
• Constructive Feedback
• Critical Thinking
• Cross-Group Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Dependability
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
• Drives Results
• Facilitation Skills
• Health Care Industry
• Influencing Others
• Integrity
• Leadership
• Learning Agility
• Organizational Savvy
• Problem Solving
• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
• Strategic Thinking
• Team Building
• Teamwork
• Topic-Specific Communication

• Sterile Compounding Quality and Regulatory Adherence
• Commercial Customer Quality
• Confidentiality
• Cost Optimization
• External Health Care Compliance
• Service Focus
• Stakeholder Management

• 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 AND minimum two (2) 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 four (4) years of experience as a Pharmacist and/or Pharmacist Intern in pharmacy or a directly related field.
• Minimum one (1) year of experience managing operational or project budgets.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.

• National Provider Identifier within 6 months of hire
  
• Pharmacist License (Oregon) required at hire

• Post-Graduate Year 2 (PGY2) residency or fellowship.
• Board Certified (e.g., Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS)).

PrimaryLocation : Oregon,Hillsboro,Westside Specialty Medical Offices
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 04:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-NW-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level : Manager with Direct Reports
Job Category : Pharmaceutical Services
Department : Westside Medical Cntr - Inpatient Pharmacy-1 - 1001
Travel : Yes, 5 % of the Time
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