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Distribution Center Manager roles qualify for TN visa sponsorship under the USMCA's Industrial Engineers category when the position requires a qualifying engineering or business degree and involves managing logistics systems, not just supervising staff. Canadian citizens can apply at any port of entry; Mexican citizens process through a U.S. consulate.
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Reports to Director, Brown University Health Retail Pharmacy Services or Director, Specialty Pharmacy Services as applicable. Responsible for managing all operational, professional, and clinical activities for pharmacy operations at assigned Brown University Health Pharmacy (LP) site. Serves as the designated Pharmacist-in-Charge and Registrant for assigned Brown University Health Pharmacy site and is personally accountable to the Rhode Island (RI) Department of Health (DoH) and federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for the entire scope of activities intrinsic to these designations. Ensures compliance with state, federal, organizational, and accrediting organization requirements. Ensures appropriate clinical pharmacist, pharmacy technician, and student intern scheduling. Ensures budgetary adherence for labor, payroll, sales, script count, inventory levels, and expenses. Completes annual performance appraisal for clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and student interns and serves as coach and mentor to develop staff. Oversees and closely reviews the work of clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and student interns. Collaborates with multidisciplinary care providers to monitor, assess, and intervene as needed to ensure safe, appropriate, and cost-effective medication use.
Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization’s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence, as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers, and one another. In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done. The core Success Factors include:
- Instill Trust and Value Differences
- Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate
In addition, our leaders will demonstrate an aptitude for:
- Ensure Accountability and Build Effective Teams
- Drive Vision and Purpose and Optimize Work Processes
By applying core and leadership competencies, leaders help Brown University Health achieve its strategic goals.
Responsibilities
Pursuant to Pharmacist-in-Charge and Registrant designations at the assigned Brown University Health Pharmacy licensed site is responsible to:
- Ensure the assigned LP licensed site meets the requirements set forth by federal and state law, RI Board of Pharmacy rules and regulations, and other applicable state regulations, including those pertaining to:
- All pharmacy licensed employee activities, including those beyond direct and indirect reports.
- All medication use and storage areas under the pharmacy license.
- All dispensing, compounding, order review, collaborative practice, and pharmacy clinical services being performed at the licensed location, even where no direct oversight.
- All pharmacy related policies, procedures, laws, rules and regulations and the activities performed under them.
- Any controlled substance loss or diversion at the assigned LP licensed location, regardless of role of individual diverting.
- All reports of significant controlled substance loss or diversion to State Board of Pharmacy and local Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
- Completion of biennial controlled substance inventory and maintenance of required records pertaining to receiving, dispensing, transferring, and reverse distribution of all control substances on site.
- Environmental conditions of all medication areas and assurance of pharmacy staff safety.
- Maintains knowledge of and compliance with regulations related to compounding including those promulgated by the Rhode Island Department of Health, Rhode Island Board of Pharmacy Rules and Regulations, United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) Chapters 795 and 800, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
- Ensures the highest standards of customer service are consistently executed, and that clinical pharmacist and pharmacy technician scheduling is adequate to meet patient/customer needs.
- Ensures clinical pharmacists consistently execute all established standards of service.
- Ensures budgetary adherence for labor, payroll, sales, script count, inventory levels, and expenses.
- Ensures new budgeted programs, initiatives, and technology are successfully implemented.
- Oversees compliance with the 340B drug purchasing program for pharmacies that serve as a contract pharmacy for one or more 340B covered entities.
- Ensures quality assurance standards are met, continually seeks out measures for improvement.
- Ensures staff participation in quality assessment and improvement activities and total quality management initiatives, including the adverse drug reaction, pharmacist clinical intervention, and medication incident reporting programs.
- Ensures staff is appropriately trained, follow policies and procedures, and complete required continuing education and corporate compliance learning modules.
- Precepts pharmacy interns and residents. Serves as a coach and mentor for all staff by assigning projects and establishing goals while providing continuous feedback.
- Completes annual performance appraisals for clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and student interns. Initiates and conducts corrective action plans, when appropriate.
- Interviews and hires new staff, ensures new employee on-boarding is completed.
- Adjusts workflow to achieve maximal productivity and efficiency.
- Maintains appropriate documentation and records regarding drug purchasing, storage, preparation, and distribution as required by organizational procedures and/or applicable laws, rules, and regulations.
- Ensures that refrigerated and frozen medications are stored at optimal temperatures and that optimal temperatures are maintained until medications are delivered to the patient.
- Monitors and drives sales and script count goals; interprets financial and performance metrics on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis as applicable to the site. Understands key business metrics and executes best practices to improve these metrics (i.e., customer satisfaction scores).
- Participates in education and training of healthcare practitioners, including pharmacy students and technicians, physicians and other practitioners, nurses, other care providers, and patients/customers on matters relevant to medication use.
- Maintains professional competence through participation in pharmacy development and skills enhancement programs, ongoing independent study, education-related professional activities, and affiliations. May perform the duties of a clinical pharmacist as needed.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
- Effective utilization of resources
- Management of continuous quality improvement
- High quality, high value patient-focused services
- Resource productivity
- Fiscal responsibility
- Development and implementation of effective, quality programs
- Customer satisfaction
- Performance improvements year-to-year
- Positive feedback from colleagues and staff
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
QUALIFICATIONS – EDUCATION
- Bachelor of Science in pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an accredited college of pharmacy.
- Prior to start date, possesses current unrestricted licensure as a licensed pharmacist, or as a licensed 90-day temporary pharmacist, in the State of Rhode Island. Obtains full licensure prior to expiration of 90-day temporary pharmacist license, then possesses and maintains current unrestricted licensure as a licensed pharmacist in the State of Rhode Island.
QUALIFICATIONS - EXPERIENCE
- Three years progressively more responsible related experience, preferably gained in a similarly diverse and operationally complex health care environment is desired.
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, to interact appropriately with patients, families, colleagues, and others.
- Effective organizational and presentation skills.
- Knowledge of area/specialty specific technology, including, but not limited to, pharmacy information systems, automated dispensing technology, software, equipment, and automation. Experience with MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and web browsers.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY
- Direct supervision of up to 60 FTEs.
Pay Range
$134,035.20-$221,187.20
Location
795 Middle Street - 795 Middle Street Fall River, Massachusetts 02721
Work Type
M-F 7:00am-7:00pm
Work Shift
Day
Daily Hours
8 hours
Driving Required
No
Brown University Health is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a work environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.
SUMMARY
Reports to Director, Brown University Health Retail Pharmacy Services or Director, Specialty Pharmacy Services as applicable. Responsible for managing all operational, professional, and clinical activities for pharmacy operations at assigned Brown University Health Pharmacy (LP) site. Serves as the designated Pharmacist-in-Charge and Registrant for assigned Brown University Health Pharmacy site and is personally accountable to the Rhode Island (RI) Department of Health (DoH) and federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for the entire scope of activities intrinsic to these designations. Ensures compliance with state, federal, organizational, and accrediting organization requirements. Ensures appropriate clinical pharmacist, pharmacy technician, and student intern scheduling. Ensures budgetary adherence for labor, payroll, sales, script count, inventory levels, and expenses. Completes annual performance appraisal for clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and student interns and serves as coach and mentor to develop staff. Oversees and closely reviews the work of clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and student interns. Collaborates with multidisciplinary care providers to monitor, assess, and intervene as needed to ensure safe, appropriate, and cost-effective medication use.
Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization’s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence, as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers, and one another. In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done. The core Success Factors include:
- Instill Trust and Value Differences
- Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate
In addition, our leaders will demonstrate an aptitude for:
- Ensure Accountability and Build Effective Teams
- Drive Vision and Purpose and Optimize Work Processes
By applying core and leadership competencies, leaders help Brown University Health achieve its strategic goals.
Responsibilities
Pursuant to Pharmacist-in-Charge and Registrant designations at the assigned Brown University Health Pharmacy licensed site is responsible to:
- Ensure the assigned LP licensed site meets the requirements set forth by federal and state law, RI Board of Pharmacy rules and regulations, and other applicable state regulations, including those pertaining to:
- All pharmacy licensed employee activities, including those beyond direct and indirect reports.
- All medication use and storage areas under the pharmacy license.
- All dispensing, compounding, order review, collaborative practice, and pharmacy clinical services being performed at the licensed location, even where no direct oversight.
- All pharmacy related policies, procedures, laws, rules and regulations and the activities performed under them.
- Any controlled substance loss or diversion at the assigned LP licensed location, regardless of role of individual diverting.
- All reports of significant controlled substance loss or diversion to State Board of Pharmacy and local Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
- Completion of biennial controlled substance inventory and maintenance of required records pertaining to receiving, dispensing, transferring, and reverse distribution of all control substances on site.
- Environmental conditions of all medication areas and assurance of pharmacy staff safety.
- Maintains knowledge of and compliance with regulations related to compounding including those promulgated by the Rhode Island Department of Health, Rhode Island Board of Pharmacy Rules and Regulations, United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) Chapters 795 and 800, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
- Ensures the highest standards of customer service are consistently executed, and that clinical pharmacist and pharmacy technician scheduling is adequate to meet patient/customer needs.
- Ensures clinical pharmacists consistently execute all established standards of service.
- Ensures budgetary adherence for labor, payroll, sales, script count, inventory levels, and expenses.
- Ensures new budgeted programs, initiatives, and technology are successfully implemented.
- Oversees compliance with the 340B drug purchasing program for pharmacies that serve as a contract pharmacy for one or more 340B covered entities.
- Ensures quality assurance standards are met, continually seeks out measures for improvement.
- Ensures staff participation in quality assessment and improvement activities and total quality management initiatives, including the adverse drug reaction, pharmacist clinical intervention, and medication incident reporting programs.
- Ensures staff is appropriately trained, follow policies and procedures, and complete required continuing education and corporate compliance learning modules.
- Precepts pharmacy interns and residents. Serves as a coach and mentor for all staff by assigning projects and establishing goals while providing continuous feedback.
- Completes annual performance appraisals for clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and student interns. Initiates and conducts corrective action plans, when appropriate.
- Interviews and hires new staff, ensures new employee on-boarding is completed.
- Adjusts workflow to achieve maximal productivity and efficiency.
- Maintains appropriate documentation and records regarding drug purchasing, storage, preparation, and distribution as required by organizational procedures and/or applicable laws, rules, and regulations.
- Ensures that refrigerated and frozen medications are stored at optimal temperatures and that optimal temperatures are maintained until medications are delivered to the patient.
- Monitors and drives sales and script count goals; interprets financial and performance metrics on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis as applicable to the site. Understands key business metrics and executes best practices to improve these metrics (i.e., customer satisfaction scores).
- Participates in education and training of healthcare practitioners, including pharmacy students and technicians, physicians and other practitioners, nurses, other care providers, and patients/customers on matters relevant to medication use.
- Maintains professional competence through participation in pharmacy development and skills enhancement programs, ongoing independent study, education-related professional activities, and affiliations. May perform the duties of a clinical pharmacist as needed.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
- Effective utilization of resources
- Management of continuous quality improvement
- High quality, high value patient-focused services
- Resource productivity
- Fiscal responsibility
- Development and implementation of effective, quality programs
- Customer satisfaction
- Performance improvements year-to-year
- Positive feedback from colleagues and staff
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
QUALIFICATIONS – EDUCATION
- Bachelor of Science in pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an accredited college of pharmacy.
- Prior to start date, possesses current unrestricted licensure as a licensed pharmacist, or as a licensed 90-day temporary pharmacist, in the State of Rhode Island. Obtains full licensure prior to expiration of 90-day temporary pharmacist license, then possesses and maintains current unrestricted licensure as a licensed pharmacist in the State of Rhode Island.
QUALIFICATIONS - EXPERIENCE
- Three years progressively more responsible related experience, preferably gained in a similarly diverse and operationally complex health care environment is desired.
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, to interact appropriately with patients, families, colleagues, and others.
- Effective organizational and presentation skills.
- Knowledge of area/specialty specific technology, including, but not limited to, pharmacy information systems, automated dispensing technology, software, equipment, and automation. Experience with MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and web browsers.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY
- Direct supervision of up to 60 FTEs.
Pay Range
$134,035.20-$221,187.20
Location
795 Middle Street - 795 Middle Street Fall River, Massachusetts 02721
Work Type
M-F 7:00am-7:00pm
Work Shift
Day
Daily Hours
8 hours
Driving Required
No
Brown University Health is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a work environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding TN Visa Sponsorship as a Distribution Center Manager
Match your degree to the industrial engineer category
TN visa approval for Distribution Center Manager roles depends on your degree field, not just your job title. A bachelor's in industrial engineering, operations management, or systems engineering maps cleanly to USMCA's Industrial Engineers category. A general business degree often triggers an RFE.
Target employers with recent visa filing experience
Search for companies with recent visa filings in industrial engineer or operations manager roles. Employers experienced with visa sponsorship processes move faster and require less internal education from you. Since TN sponsorship relies on employer support letters rather than government filings, working with companies already familiar with work visa sponsorship can streamline your application at the port of entry or consulate.
Document your scope of work before the offer stage
Prepare a role summary that ties your daily responsibilities to industrial engineering functions: workflow analysis, capacity planning, process optimization. Distribution centers that need warehouse supervisors won't qualify; those redesigning fulfillment systems will. Getting this framing right before negotiations starts saves time later.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified TN-sponsoring employers
Search Migrate Mate to identify distribution and logistics employers that have sponsored TN visas for operations and engineering roles. Filtering by sponsorship history cuts out employers who will stall on the question and connects you directly to hiring managers already comfortable with the process.
Prepare a support letter that addresses specialty occupation
The employer's support letter must explain why the Distribution Center Manager role requires a degree in a specific technical field, not just management experience. USCIS and CBP officers look for that connection explicitly. A vague letter citing years of experience instead of degree requirements is a common denial trigger.
Understand the Mexican TN cap before accepting an offer
Mexican citizens face a 5,500 annual TN allocation, unlike Canadians who face no cap. If you're a Mexican national, confirm your employer is prepared to file early in the fiscal year and has a backup plan, such as TN renewal timing, if the cap is reached before your start date.
Distribution Center Manager TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Distribution Center Manager role qualify for a TN visa?
It depends on how the role is defined. TN visas for this title are most commonly approved under the Industrial Engineers category, which requires that the position involve engineering-level work such as process design, systems optimization, or capacity planning. A role focused primarily on supervising warehouse staff without a technical engineering component is unlikely to qualify. Your employer's support letter and job description must make the engineering connection explicit.
How does TN compare to H-1B for Distribution Center Manager positions?
TN has no annual lottery and no cap for Canadian citizens, so approval is determined by eligibility, not random selection. H-1B visa requires entering a lottery with roughly a 25% selection rate before a petition is even reviewed. For Canadian professionals, TN is a faster and more predictable path. Mexican nationals face a 5,500 annual TN cap, but this is still far less restrictive than H-1B competition. Neither visa requires PERM labor certification, which keeps the employer's process simpler.
How can I find Distribution Center Manager jobs with TN visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search. You can filter by TN-eligible roles and find employers with documented sponsorship history in logistics, distribution, and operations. This removes the guesswork of approaching employers who have never sponsored a TN and won't know how to start. Focusing your search on employers already familiar with the process significantly shortens your time to an offer.
What documents does my employer need to prepare for my TN application?
Your employer must provide a support letter that states your job title, describes how the role meets the USMCA specialty occupation definition, confirms you have a qualifying degree, specifies your intended start date, and certifies the terms of employment. Canadian citizens present this letter directly to a CBP officer at the port of entry. Mexican citizens submit it as part of the consular appointment package. The letter must be on company letterhead and signed by an authorized representative.
Can I switch employers after getting a TN visa in a Distribution Center Manager role?
Yes, but you cannot start working for the new employer before your new TN is approved. Canadian citizens can go to a port of entry with a new support letter and apply for a new TN on the same day. Mexican citizens must schedule a new consular appointment. There is no grace period that allows you to work for a new employer while a new TN is pending, so timing the transition carefully with both employers is essential.