AVP, Ambulatory Pharmacy Operations and PBM

BHS • La Grange, KY

15d

About The Position

Baptist Health is looking for an AVP, Ambulatory Pharmacy Operations and PBM to join their System Pharmacy team! The AVP, Ambulatory Pharmacy Operations & PBM provides enterprise-wide leadership for the planning, coordination, and execution of ambulatory pharmacy operations, specialty pharmacy services, and PBM strategy across the health system. This role is responsible for developing and implementing strategic initiatives that advance clinical quality, operational efficiency, financial performance, and patient experience within specialty and ambulatory pharmacy services. The AVP leads enterprise PBM strategy for Baptist Health employees and dependents, including oversight of utilization management, formulary governance, and coordination of PBM operational processes with system specialty pharmacy, central pharmacy, and community pharmacy leadership. The role ensures alignment between ambulatory pharmacy operations and PBM functions to improve access, affordability, and outcomes, while monitoring key performance indicators and executing performance improvement initiatives across the enterprise. This position is accountable for establishing and enforcing standardized operational policies, procedures, and governance structures that drive efficiency, cost containment, and regulatory compliance across ambulatory and specialty pharmacy services. The AVP provides executive oversight for specialty pharmacy accreditation, regulatory readiness, and quality assurance, while ensuring adherence to federal, state, and payer requirements. In partnership with the Chief Pharmacy Officer, the AVP develops and executes external ambulatory and specialty pharmacy strategy, including expansion of partnerships with health systems, employers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, payers, and other strategic organizations to support growth, prescription fulfillment, and enterprise pharmacy objectives. If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now! Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or Pharm D from accredited College of Pharmacy
• Current Kentucky and Indiana Pharmacist License or eligible
• 5+ years of related community pharmacy experience required
• 3+ years of related community pharmacy management experience required
• Experience with and proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint and other pharmacy related applications (Omnicell, Epic, Parata) preferred

Nice To Haves

• Completion of PGY-1/PGY-2 ASHP-accredited Pharmacy Residency in administration preferred
• Board certification or other advanced certification preferred
• Master’s Degree preferred

Responsibilities

• Provides enterprise-wide leadership for the planning, coordination, and execution of ambulatory pharmacy operations, specialty pharmacy services, and PBM strategy across the health system.
• Developing and implementing strategic initiatives that advance clinical quality, operational efficiency, financial performance, and patient experience within specialty and ambulatory pharmacy services.
• Leads enterprise PBM strategy for Baptist Health employees and dependents, including oversight of utilization management, formulary governance, and coordination of PBM operational processes with system specialty pharmacy, central pharmacy, and community pharmacy leadership.
• Ensures alignment between ambulatory pharmacy operations and PBM functions to improve access, affordability, and outcomes, while monitoring key performance indicators and executing performance improvement initiatives across the enterprise.
• Establishing and enforcing standardized operational policies, procedures, and governance structures that drive efficiency, cost containment, and regulatory compliance across ambulatory and specialty pharmacy services.
• Provides executive oversight for specialty pharmacy accreditation, regulatory readiness, and quality assurance, while ensuring adherence to federal, state, and payer requirements.
• Develops and executes external ambulatory and specialty pharmacy strategy, including expansion of partnerships with health systems, employers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, payers, and other strategic organizations to support growth, prescription fulfillment, and enterprise pharmacy objectives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive