Role : Director - Specialty Pharmacy Operations
Location : Washington, DC 20001
Must-Haves
- Pharmacist with PharmD or BS Pharm required.
- Requires licensure to practice pharmacy in the worked-in state.
- Leadership within a specialty pharmacy, health system, or managed care setting with a track record of transforming.
- Experience and understanding with clinical knowledge in specialty drugs and treatments.
- At least 3 years with relevant experience in research pharmacy.
Essential Responsibilities / Duties
- Leader and quarterback in enabling growth for the partner organization's new specialty pharmacy.
- Execute and develop goals, plans and tactics to ensure partner's specialty pharmacy program continuously improves in size and profitability.
- Develop, maintain and motivate Clearway Health on-site teams of specialty pharmacists, liaisons, and other staff to exceed goals and foster high patient and provider satisfaction; direct day-to-day oversight of those teams.
- Identify trends, leads problem resolution, and lead development of processes and initiatives to continuously grow specialty pharmacy integration within clinics.
- Owner of the relationship between Clearway Health and health system partner leadership and pharmacy teams.
- Coordinates and manages external relationships with pharmaceutical manufacturers, third-party payors and organizations related to specialty pharmacy on behalf of partner health system.
- Responsible for overseeing compliance to limited distribution drug and specialty pharmacy contract requirements in partnership with health system clients.
- Direct project management for all initiatives at partner health system site related to specialty pharmacy development; includes planning, development, timely project execution.
- Provide expertise in identifying improvements in pharmacy operations to ensure high levels of service within partner specialty pharmacy.
- Forecasting and preparation of specialty pharmacy operating and financial plans, including financial planning and decision support.
- Updating job expertise within specialty pharmacy by participating in educational forums and professional organizations, representing both the partner and Clearway Health.
- Work with Clearway Health corporate resources to leverage subject matter expertise and resources needed to execute and exceed plans.
- Willing to go above and beyond to do whatever is necessary for the betterment of the organization.
- Open to regional geographic responsibilities that may increase with company growth (travel up to 25-50% of time potentially).
- Other duties as assigned.
Education
- Pharmacist with PharmD or BS Pharm required. MBA or other business degree preferred.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations Required
- Requires licensure to practice pharmacy in the worked-in state.
- Multi-state licensure preferred.
Experience
- Dependent on education:
- Bachelors or PharmD Pharmacy (B.S. or PharmD): At least 7 years with relevant experience in research pharmacy.
- Doctorate (Plus residency if residency is non-research related): At least 5 years with relevant experience in research pharmacy.
- Doctorate + PGY2 Residency (if residency experience includes research): At least 3 years with relevant experience in research pharmacy.
- Prior leadership experience is preferred.
Knowledge And Skills
- Experience managing and successfully executing complex projects (preferably in a health system setting) while working with diverse stakeholders.
- Leadership within a specialty pharmacy, health system, or managed care setting with a track record of transforming.
- Been responsible for and successfully managed a P&L for a specialty pharmacy or large-scale pharmacy program.
- Clear and effective people management and communication skills.
- Excellent project management skills.
- Proactive approach to problem solving, high attention to detail.
- Project management skills.
- Proficiency in MS Office including Word, Excel, PPT, Outlook.
- Experience working in a clinical setting, ideally holding a PharmD, BS in Pharmacy, or another clinical credential (e.g., RN, MD).
- Firsthand experience in starting own specialty pharmacy or early-stage health care environments.
- Experience and understanding with clinical knowledge in specialty drugs and treatments.
- Proficiency with standard software used in a healthcare setting, such as EMR systems (e.g., EPIC, Cerner, Meditech), dispensing systems (e.g., QS/1, RX30, Liberty).
- Advanced degrees in healthcare-related field or business administration.
- Knowledge and direct experience in hospital, clinic or health system environment (bonus points for a background in 340B).
- Background in specialty pharmacy accreditation (application, process and maintenance of the accreditation at partner sites).
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