Specialty Pharmacy Operations Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Leads assigned Specialty Liaison team, managing and directing activities essential to providing the highest quality experience for patients in specialty clinics
• Coach and develop liaison team and instill Shields culture at health system partner site
• Provide consistent, timely and ongoing performance coaching, feedback, training, and development to liaison teams
• Facilitate effective communication between liaison, Shields functional group, pharmacy, and clinic teams
• Maintain and exceed site operational targets surrounding clinic service, growth, and patient satisfaction & outcomes
• Proactively identify and implement improvement initiatives at health system partners to drive growth and efficiency
• Engage with Shields functional group leadership to ensure operational targets are met and drive growth and efficiency
• Establish credible relationships with stakeholders at health system partners including clinic leadership and pharmacy teams up to Manager and Director levels
• Ensure a high level of partner satisfaction by proactively communicating the value of Shields' clinic operations team, addressing concerns responsively, and providing regular updates to clinic leadership
• Collaborate with regional leadership teams to implement strategic growth initiatives including new clinic launches, workflow changes, and other growth initiatives
• Provide performance updates to Shields leadership team
• Ensures Specialty Liaison team accountability and the consistent use of best practices for execution of the following critical responsibilities: prior authorizations, patient financial assistance, medication refills, patient appointments, and patient outreach
• Ensures coverage for Specialty Liaisons when absent from work
• Effectively solve problems within clinics and with support staff within the home office
• Identifies issues within a clinic and works with their manager to create tangible action plans to improve performance and ensures timely implementation of improvement efforts
• Collaboratively partners with the data analytics team and Patient Support Center to execute on identified opportunities
• Identifies, assesses and contributes to continuous process improvement and optimization initiatives
• Provides subject matter expertise to hospitals and clinics within their span of control
• Other duties as assigned

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required with a minimum of 2 years supervisory/management experience preferred
• 5 years working in a healthcare or pharmacy environment with direct patient and clinician contact required
• National Certification as a CPhT (or equivalent) and prior experience as a licensed pharmacy technician would be optimal in this role
• Experience working within a retail, hospital or provider type setting communicating with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals (preferably in an outpatient or medical clinic setting) is a plus.
• Strong communication skills, highly proficient in Microsoft Office particularly Excel and Word
• This candidate will be able to quickly learn other programs and extract relevant information
• Possess strong organizational skills is a must
• Able to manage the performance of individuals against quantitative metrics without compromising clinical quality
• Patient-centered, organized, high-integrity, motivational, attention to detail, dependable, quality focus, empathetic, good listener/communicator, a good teacher, able to lead a group of individuals
• Energetic, highly motivated, team player with excellent attention to detail; discretion and confidentiality essential as position deals with highly sensitive and private health information
• Motivates and inspires
• Results orientation
• Relationship builder
• Collaborative, team player
• A passion to help people
• Drive to succeed