Lead Clinical Pharmacist

Arine

4d • $140,000 - $147,000 • Remote

About The Position

Based in San Francisco, Arine is a rapidly growing healthcare technology and clinical services company with a mission to ensure individuals receive the safest and most effective treatments for their unique and evolving healthcare needs.
Frequently, medications cause more harm than good. Incorrect drugs and doses costs the US healthcare system over $528 billion in waste, avoidable harm, and hospitalizations each year. Arine is redefining what excellent healthcare looks like by solving these issues through our software platform (SaaS). We combine cutting edge data science, machine learning, AI, and deep clinical expertise to introduce a patient-centric view to medication management, and develop and deliver personalized care plans on a massive scale for patients and their care teams.
Arine is committed to improving the lives and health of complex patients that have an outsized impact on healthcare costs and have traditionally been difficult to identify and address. These patients face numerous challenges including complicated prescribing issues across multiple medications and providers, medication challenges with many chronic diseases, and patient issues with access to care. Backed by leading healthcare investors and collaborating with top healthcare organizations and providers, we deliver recommendations and facilitate clinical interventions that lead to significant, measurable health improvements for patients and cost savings for customers.
Why is Arine a Great Place to Work?:
Outstanding Team and Culture - Our shared mission unites and motivates us to do our best work. We have a relentless passion and commitment to the innovation required to be the market leader in medication intelligence.
Making a Proven Difference in Healthcare - We are saving patient lives, and enabling individuals to experience improved health outcomes, including significant reductions in hospitalizations and cost of care.
Market Opportunity - Arine is backed by leading healthcare investors and was founded to tackle one of the largest healthcare problems today. Non-optimized medications therapies which cost the US 275,000 lives and $528 billion annually.
Dramatic Growth - Arine is managing more than 18 million lives across prominent health plans after only 4 years in the market, and was ranked 236 on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list and was named the 5th fastest-growing company in the AI category.
The Role:
We are looking for a Lead Clinical Pharmacist to assist in leading one of the clinical teams that uses the Arine platform to deliver excellent outcomes for our customers.
The Lead Clinical Pharmacist is part of a team of clinicians, analysts, clinical support staff, and trainees utilizing Arine’s software platform to help optimize patient outcomes for our clients. The purpose of the Lead Clinical Pharmacist position is to assist in managing a patient engagement program that achieves four and five-star results across a variety of Medicare Part C and Part D measures. The position leads and oversees expert level medication therapy consultation to patients and providers, collaborates with the Engineering team and leadership to improve Arine’s software platform, and supervises a team of Pharmacists who are directly reviewing medication profiles and counseling patients, interacting with other health professionals to help improve patient outcomes. The Lead Clinical Pharmacist partners with the Clinical Support Lead to achieve results by setting a strategic approach with Arine leadership and with other Clinical Care Leads to drive excellent medication outcomes and by engaging client teams and Arine Customer Success to align expectations and communicate roadblocks and progress.
This role encompasses all of Arine's Clinical Care team activities. Lead Clinical Pharmacists will be asked to:

Requirements

• At least 12 months experience in a Pharmacist role on Adherence or MTM projects, with a track record of excellence and demonstrated leadership (required)
• Team management and or coaching experience
• Excellent analytical skills
• Ability to quickly problem solve and triage both clinical and operational situations
• Ability to organize and set priorities which accurately reflect the relative importance of job responsibilities
• Excellent communication and project management skills
• Ability to engage with the patients, promote adherence and treat patients with empathy and compassion
• Strong grasp of standard workflows for medication adherence
• Ability to apply judgment and make informed decisions in order to work independently and meet deadlines
• Ability to work effectively within a team and foster effective working relationships and build consensus
• Eagerness to learn new skills in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Strong computer skills, including facility with Microsoft Word, Excel, Google Spreadsheets, and Google Documents
• An established private work area that ensures information privacy
• A stable high-speed internet connection for telephonic and/or remote work
• This role is remote, but you will be required to come to on-site meetings multiple times per year. This may be in the interview process, onboarding, and team meetings
• Ability to pass a background check
• Must live in and be eligible to work in the United States

Responsibilities

• Support oversight of goals, progress, and resource allocation of an Arine full-service clinical project
• Develop intervention strategies to optimize medication regimens to improve health outcomes (example, decrease hospitalizations, cost, and morbidity), support CMS quality measures (example adherence, SUPD and SPC), and other established goals
• Manage team productivity and timelines to ensure goals are met
• Ensure quality assurance standards are met
• Develop new workflows, best practices, and standards to drive continuous improvement in health outcomes, efficiencies, and insights to improve our product
• Prioritize project needs and be able to communicate the magnitude of potential impacts when escalating product asks, staffing requests, etc
• Represent Arine’s Clinical Care team at customer meetings, as well as lead internal staff meetings
• Hire, train, and schedule team members and help lead in the growth and development of the team
• Manage and conduct performance reviews for assigned team members
• Respond to questions by patients, providers, and other professional personnel and team members
• Comply with all company policies and state and federal rules and regulations

Benefits

• Joining Arine offers you a dynamic role and the opportunity to contribute to the company's growth and shape its future.
• You'll have unparalleled learning and growth prospects, collaborating closely with experienced Clinicians, Engineers, Software Architects, and Digital Health Entrepreneurs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed