Senior Director - Acute Care Pharmacy

• →Creates short- and long-term industry-leading pharmacy strategy that is focused on providing care/services safely for our patients while increasing system pharmacy prescription capture rate and associated revenue. Strategy will be focused on improving patient experience within the health system, implementing operational efficiencies and actions focused on providing a best-in-class patient care and experience.
• →Develops, maintains, communicates and executes a vision and plan for continual improvement and provision of exceptional quality pharmacy services.
• →Develops and maintains system standardized pharmacy labor and automation models that are based on patient volume and patient experience, with a focus on leveraging available resources.
• →Provides guidance for the financial operations through recommendations for appropriate contracting, use of prescription assistance programs, establishment of billing, appropriate pricing updates, and assures quality functions for financial performance success.
• →Foster collaborative relationships with peers and stakeholders to understand and meet medication safety, and pharmacy automation and compliance requirements for the Pharmacy and support services for the health system.
• →Maintain and apply current knowledge of industry standards, best practices, trends, and advancements to serve as SME in thought leadership, business development, and other efforts as needed.
• →Provides effective leadership and strategically identify, internalize, and communicate the critical success factors necessary to support organizational goals.
• →Develop and empower teams to achieve goals and objectives through effective hiring, onboarding, development, coaching, and performance management practices.
• →Effectively uses the appropriate financial concepts and tools to analyze situations and make financial decisions that support the achievement of short and longer-term departmental objectives.
• →Supports/coordinates the health system’s educational mission with the School of Pharmacy.
• →Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• →These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

• Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy
• High School Graduate

• Pharmacy Doctorate Pharmacy, Health Administration or Business Administration
• Completion of an accredited pharmacy residency

• Licensed Pharmacist - State Board of Pharmacy

• Membership in regional & national pharmacy organization(s)

• The health system is an equal employment opportunity employer.  Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally-protected status.  See also Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

• The health system provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.  If you need to request reasonable accommodations for your disability as you navigate the recruitment process, please let our recruiters know by requesting an Accommodation Request form using this link asktalentacquisition@kumc.edu.

• Employment with the health system is contingent upon, among other things, agreeing to the health-system-dispute-resolution-program.pdf and signing the agreement to the DRP.

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