District Director, Pharmacy

Our Company

Pharmacy Alternatives

Overview

Our Pharmacy group focuses on providing exceptional customer service and meeting the pharmacy needs for hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, long-term acute care hospitals, and other specialized care centers nationwide. If your passion is service excellence and top-quality care come join our team and apply today!

We Offer

• Medical, Dental & Vision Benefits plus, HSA & FSA Savings Accounts
• Supplemental Coverage – Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Company paid Life and AD&D Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Employee Discounts
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Time Off & Holidays
  
  

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
• Works with Account Management and Sales to promote customer growth and retention
• 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

Education/Learning Experience:

• Required: Four year college degree
• Desired: RPh or PharmD, MBA
  
  

Work Experience

• Required: Minimum of three years of management experience with significant P&L responsibility. Multi-site management experience
• 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
  
  

Licenses/Certifications

• Desired: Pharmacist License
  
  

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 .