Director, Clinical Pharmacy Services; Mount Sinai Health Systems; Full Time; Days

Mount Sinai Health System • New York, NY

13h • Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services provides strategic and operational leadership for enterprise clinical pharmacy programs that advance safe, evidence-based, and fiscally responsible medication use across the health system. Reporting to the Executive Director, this leader is responsible for formulary management, clinical practice standardization, medication-use optimization, and the development of innovative pharmacy services that improve patient outcomes, quality, and value. The Director partners with physician, nursing, operational, and executive leaders to implement system-wide clinical initiatives, oversee Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Committee operations, drive medication stewardship and utilization management strategies, and ensure alignment of medication-use processes across the continuum of care. The role also provides leadership for analytics, regulatory readiness, workforce development, residency training, and research while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, continuous improvement, and clinical excellence.

Requirements

• Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) or Advanced Pharmacy degree required
• PGY1 Pharmacy Residency required
• Minimum 7-10 years of progressive pharmacy leadership experience
• Demonstrated experience developing or managing Formulary committees, clinical programs or other related medication management processes
• Experience in health system clinical pharmacy operations and therapeutic outcomes assessment
• Strategic healthcare leadership
• Application of clinical knowledge to patient care
• Clinical program development
• Data-driven quality improvement
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Health system operations
• Health Outcomes Assessment
• Change management

Nice To Haves

• PGY2 Residency in Ambulatory Care, Internal Medicine, Critical Care, Health-System Pharmacy Administration, or related field preferred
• Board Certification (BCPS, BCACP, BCCCP, or equivalent) preferred

Responsibilities

• Provides operational and strategic leadership for formulary management, medication stewardship, utilization management, and clinical program development.
• Ensures that medication decisions are clinically appropriate, fiscally responsible, and consistently applied across all sites of care through oversight of Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Committee activities and implementation of evidence-based medication-use strategies.
• Supports the organization's ability to achieve system-wide standardization while maintaining flexibility to address local operational needs.
• Evaluates clinical value, monitors utilization, and ensures safe adoption of pharmaceutical therapies, including specialty medications, biosimilars, gene therapies, and high-cost emerging treatments.
• Serves as a key driver of strategic clinical pharmacy growth by identifying, developing, and implementing innovative pharmacy services that improve patient outcomes, enhance medication safety, support workforce optimization, and align with organizational priorities.
• Facilitates enterprise-wide initiatives that advance both patient care and organizational performance through collaboration with medical staff, nursing leadership, quality departments, and operational stakeholders.
• Strengthens the organization's ability to meet regulatory, accreditation, and quality requirements by overseeing medication-use analytics, performance dashboards, policy development, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Provides critical leadership in workforce development, residency training, succession planning, and professional advancement by supporting recruitment, competency development, and scholarly activity.
• Translates enterprise medication-use strategy into measurable clinical, quality, and financial outcomes.

Benefits

• Improved medication safety and patient outcomes through standardized, evidence-based medication-use practices.
• Reduced unwarranted variation in prescribing and formulary utilization across the health system.
• Enhanced medication stewardship and value optimization resulting in improved financial performance.
• Accelerated implementation of innovative clinical pharmacy services and system strategic initiatives.
• Strengthened regulatory readiness and accreditation compliance.
• Improved enterprise analytics to support data-driven decision-making.
• Development of future pharmacy leaders through residency, mentoring, and professional development programs.
• Greater alignment of pharmacy services with organizational goals related to quality, safety, operational efficiency, and value-based care.

What This Job Offers

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