District Director, Pharmacy

About the role

The Pharmacy group focuses on exceptional customer service and meeting the pharmacy needs for hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, long-term acute care hospitals, and other specialized care centers nationwide. If you're passionate about service excellence and top-quality care, join our team and apply today!

Responsibilities

• Oversees Pharmacy Directors in assigned region and participates in training and orientation of newly hired/promoted pharmacy directors.
• Implements, oversees, and monitors new and existing directives.
• Manages the P & L for pharmacies in the assigned district, including preparation of the annual expense and capital budgets.
• Works with Regional VP of Operations to set the strategic direction and ensures that each pharmacy in the assigned district achieves budgeted profit, unit cost, bed retention and other goals.
• Identifies pharmacies that are not performing to standard and develops and implements plans of corrective action.
• Participates in implementation of new business start-ups and manages to a successful outcome.
• Directly responsible for customer service level commitments. Takes timely and decisive action to address, correct and/or prevent service failures.
• Ensures that employees in the district understand and adhere to compliance, regulatory and Company processes, procedures and regulations.
• Participates in monthly operations reviews, responds to corporate and regional reporting requests, and provides district profitability and expense forecasts.
• Promotes customer growth and retention by working with Account Management and Sales.
• Analyzes inventory management processes and inventory turn results and takes action to optimize inventory levels to have a positive effect on COGS and cash flow.
• Performs administrative tasks including Pharmacy Director performance evaluations and corrective actions; researches and prepares Capital Expenditure Requests.
• Participates and oversees internal and external audit activities.
• Performs other tasks as assigned.

Qualifications

• Required: Four year college degree.
• Required: Minimum of three years of management experience with significant P&L responsibility. Multi-site management experience.
• Desired: RPh or PharmD, MBA.
• Desired: Long-Term Care/Healthcare experience preferred. Prior leadership experience at director level within the industry is preferred.

Skills/Knowledge

• Required: Strategic Planning experience, Strong business growth orientation, background in healthcare.

Behavior Competencies

• Required: Strategic Planning, Business Growth, Financial Operations Knowledge, Results Oriented, Leadership, Analytical Thinking, and People Management.

About Our Line of Business

Pharmacy Alternatives®, an affiliate of PharMerica, is a specialized pharmacy provider focused on serving individuals with cognitive or intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Pharmacy Alternatives offers long-term pharmacy solutions specializing in serving special-needs populations who live in intermediate care facilities, waiver homes, group homes, assisted living, supported-living or foster care. Our state-of-the-art approach includes packaging technology specially designed for the population we serve and electronic medication management that helps people live their best lives. For more information, please visit www.pharmacyalternatives.com. Follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn.