Drug Utilization Management Specialist - Pharmacy 500P (Full-Time, 8-Hour Day Shifts)

Stanford Health Care • Palo Alto, CA

8d • $84 - $111 • Onsite

About The Position

This position is focused on strategic thinking and leadership development at SHC and SHC Tri-Valley. Responsibilities include ensuring medication use aligns with evidence-based best practices and regulatory standards, coordinating clinical education across various healthcare settings, including clinics, hospitals, and contracted providers, and implementing cross-departmental clinical initiatives.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy with Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree.
• 5-7 years of clinical pharmacy experience in a health system required, including but not limited to, managed care pharmacy experience.
• ASHP-accredited pharmacy residency or equivalent experience required.
• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical pharmacy practice, pharmacy operations, and the use of electronic health records.
• Evidence of past leadership experience with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across multiple departments.
• Excellent analytical skills to interpret and drive trends, assess budget impact, and conduct financial forecasting.
• Excellent presentation, management, and communication skills, particularly with indirect reports, including pharmacists, residents, and operational leaders.
• Proficiency in developing educational content and training programs for pharmacy staff.
• Ability to think strategically and develop business/clinical tactics that optimize drug utilization while ensuring safety and compliance.
• Knowledgeable in performance improvement concepts including identifying improvement opportunities, setting goals, tracking results, and driving performance.
• Strong interpersonal skills to effectively function within the department and organization, with skills in prioritization, problem-solving, team building, collaboration, conflict resolution, and decision-making.
• Ability to work in a complex team environment and collaborate with external and internal professionals.
• CA-RPH (Register Pharmacist) required

Nice To Haves

• Pharmacy leadership with supervisory experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Identify, design, analyze complex datasets, and implement clinical pharmacy interventions focused on driving evidence-based, safe, and cost-effective drug use.
• Identify and anticipate major therapeutic changes that impact enterprise-wide drug utilization patterns.
• Perform in-depth reviews of drug information to ensure safety and efficacy of drug utilization initiatives.
• Develop and drive clinical and operational strategies to shift drug utilization and promote high quality and cost-effective care.
• Direct, coach and support operational leaders, pharmacists, pharmacy residents, and pharmacy students to ensure optimal performance of medication utilization initiatives; this may include overseeing the drug use management process and data collection activities.
• Collaborate and coordinate with pharmacy operational leaders to identify and develop strategic initiatives aimed at advancing value-based care and ensuring financial sustainability of the department and organization.
• Create and implement policies related to clinical pharmacy practices, formulary, and medication management.
• Develop appropriate KPIs and maintain report cards and dashboards for medication utilization initiatives to ensure the effectiveness of clinical pharmacy interventions and identify opportunities to maximize prescribing performance.
• Run, review, and perform audits to identify gaps in medication use patterns, training knowledge, and areas for staff performance improvement.
• Educate health care professionals regarding recent innovations in pharmaceutical practice, drug cost issues, clinical outcomes issues, etc via presentations, digital communications, formal utilization review, and one-on-one conversations.
• Provide training, analytical support, and ongoing performance feedback to providers and staff regarding initiative outcomes.
• Oversee the development, documentation, provision, and preparation of training information, ensuring that materials are updated to meet the training needs of operational leaders, clinical pharmacists, pharmacy residents, and interdisciplinary staff.
• Assist the Director of Drug Utilization with development and implementation of clinical pharmacy protocols, policies, and procedures.

Benefits

• Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.
• You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective: Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

What This Job Offers

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