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St. Peter's Health Partners · 1 day ago

Regional Chief Pharmacy Officer - Albany/Syracuse

Albany, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$89.46/hr - $143.14/hr

10+ years exp

St. Peter's Health Partners is a healthcare organization seeking a Chief Pharmacy Officer for Trinity Health New York, overseeing pharmacy services in Albany and Syracuse. The role involves strategic and operational leadership in clinical pharmacy practice, regulatory compliance, and patient-centered care across multiple healthcare institutions.

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Responsibilities

Provides leadership & retains accountability for delegation, choices, decisions, and outcomes

Directs alignment and standardization for Pharmacy operations across the continuum of care to provide high-quality, cost-effective patient care in accordance with professional standards, regulatory and licensing agency policies, and federal and state laws related to the practice of Pharmacy

Acts independently and appropriately within license, scope of knowledge and experience in practice area

Exhibits agility and willingness to take on new and additional responsibilities

Embraces new ideas and cultural differences while managing competing priorities

Provides guidance with executive leaders, medical staff, and healthcare team to develop strategy, goals, objectives, and operational standards to ensure services and priority alignment

Responsible for the successful achievement of strategic objectives and goals and optimizing resources to achieve the desired outcomes

Creates and promotes a culture based on the principles of continuous quality improvement

Establishes standards and provides oversight for monitoring quality assurance activities and issues

Identifies opportunities and creates corrective action plans to improve operational effectiveness

Ensures appropriate operational and capital budgets are prepared for Pharmacy related services

Influences effective, judicious, and financially responsible use of resources

Responsible for identifying analytics and metrics to demonstrate baseline and performance improvement targets

Creates scorecards for key performance indicators (KPIs) and drives tactics and implements action plans

Innovator for Pharmacy business development and revenue integrity activities

Responsible for medication safety measures and efficient operational processes

Initiates and supports business development and revenue integrity activities

Ensures compliance with the 340B program regulations, recommends opportunities, promotes community benefit, and optimizes contracting

Optimally utilizes and integrates technology and centralized support services

Orchestrates a growth strategy and for Clinical Pharmacy services integrated into ambulatory care services Clinically Integrated Network (CIN) activities to demonstrate value-based care

Accountable for the discovery of and development of new partnerships with external business partners and continuum of care partners

Acts as a strategic partner with the executive leaders to position Trinity Health for the immediate and long-term future

Communicates appropriate medication use recommendations to appropriate committees and aligns with System guidance

Responsible for training, education, coaching, and assessment of pharmacist competencies

Participates in own professional development by maintaining required competencies, licenses, and certifications, identifying learning needs and seeking appropriate assistance or educational offerings

Creates a work climate that empowers colleagues and values colleagues’ contributions

Streamlines Pharmacy procurement activities across the continuum of care to minimize impact from drug shortages and decrease costs

Optimizes technology resources to facilitate monitor inventory and contract compliance

Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, Trinity Health’s Organizational Integrity Program, Standards of Conduct, as well as other policies and procedures to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior

Qualification

Pharmacy managementClinical Pharmacy servicesFinancial operationsLeadership skillsBusiness acumenQuality improvementChange managementAnalytical skillsMicrosoft OfficeCommunication skillsTeam collaboration

Required

Advanced Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D.) required

Minimum of ten (10) years' experience as a pharmacist

Minimum seven (7) years of pharmacy management experience

Previous director level experience

Management within a health-system required

Current pharmacist state licensure where employed

Proven leadership skills in relationship to motivating and empowering staff

Familiarity with the change acceleration process and ability to successfully influence and maintain large scale change initiatives

Ability to manage all aspects of Pharmacy services for inpatient and outpatient including retail pharmacies, infusion centers, mail order services, specialty pharmacy

Experience in managing a highly complex pharmacy enterprise and experience leading large scale pharmacy operations and performance improvement projects

Business acumen essential to operate effectively within the health system and advance the profession and practice of pharmacy

Ability to plan, develop and implement programs and services that improve pharmaceutical care and services

Able to identify opportunities, facilitate work groups, and develop new processes

Able to develop and maintain relationships with a variety of types of positions, disciplines and individuals at the system, region, and ministry levels

Analyze interrelated elements of problems and works systematically to solve them, uses sound judgment to develop efficient and feasible resolutions to challenging issues

Knowledge of current trends and developments in the Pharmacy practice and changing hospital and health care environment

Strong analytical and cognitive skills necessary to prepare operating budgets and interpret financial trends, define system problems, develop alternatives, and implement new procedures that are cost effective and continuously improve quality

Critical thinking skills ad ability to develop innovative programs and strategies to effectively respond to a rapidly changing health care environment

Ability to apply continuous quality improvement principles to define system problems, develop alternatives, implement solutions, and measure the outcome

Working knowledge of Microsoft office products, including word, Excel, PowerPoint and other graphics or presentation software

Must possess a personal presence that is characterized by a sense of honesty, integrity, and caring with the ability to inspire and motivate others to promote the philosophy, mission, vision, goals, and values of Trinity Health

Preferred

Master's degree strongly preferred (MBA, MHA)

Preferred experience working in an organization of comparable size and complexity, preferably in healthcare

Company

St. Peter's Health Partners

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St Peters provides health care services.

Founded in 2011

Albany, New York, USA

10001+ employees

http://sphp.com/

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