Manager Pharmacy - Investigational Drug Services

American Addiction Centers • Park Ridge, IL

4d • $68 - $102 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Manager, Investigational Drug Services (IDS) provides leadership and operational oversight for IDS pharmacy services across Illinois and Wisconsin. This role supports both inpatient and outpatient investigational drug programs, oversees IDS team members, and collaborates with pharmacy, research, and clinical stakeholders to ensure compliant and efficient study operations. The Manager, Investigational Drug Services (IDS) provides leadership and operational oversight for IDS pharmacy services across Illinois and Wisconsin. This role supports both inpatient and outpatient investigational drug programs, oversees IDS team members, and collaborates with pharmacy, research, and clinical stakeholders to ensure compliant and efficient study operations.

Requirements

• Current Registered Pharmacist (RPh) license.
• Minimum 3-5 years of Investigational Drug Services (IDS) pharmacy experience.
• Experience reviewing and implementing clinical trial protocols.
• Strong organizational, communication, and leadership skills.
• Pharmacist license issued by the state in which the team member practices.
• Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy.
• Typically requires 5 years of experience in a health system pharmacy practice as a pharmacist.
• Includes 1 year of supervisory experience in management of staff and in overseeing of budgets.
• Demonstrates leadership skills and abilities including problem solving, prioritization, decision making, delegation, team building, patient service, and conflict resolution.
• Advanced knowledge of pharmacy practice, clinical skills, pharmacy reimbursement, and an understanding of heal care and hospital trends and issues.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with providers, staff and patients.
• Must be detailed-oriented with the ability to handle multiple demands simultaneously.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills.
• Intermediate computer skills including experience in using pharmacy automation and point-of-sale systems.
• Strong aptitude in human resource management.
• Life support training courses may be required dependent on department discretion.

Nice To Haves

• Previous leadership or supervisory experience.
• Pharmacy residency training.
• Sterile compounding experience.
• Experience with budgeting and financial planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead IDS pharmacy operations across multiple Midwest locations.
• Provide direct and/or indirect supervision of IDS staff.
• Oversee budgeting, operational planning, and resource management.
• Review protocols, pharmacy manuals, study documents, and other clinical trial materials.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, institutional, and research requirements.
• Support quality improvement and program growth initiatives.
• Participate in on-call, weekend, and holiday coverage as needed.
• Manages and oversees daily operations by establishing priorities, providing work direction, resolving problems and monitoring department performance. Ensures that services are safe and high quality.
• Ensures pharmacy services align with local, state, and federal rules and regulations. Ensures that accepted standards of practice as outlined by accrediting bodies, ASHP, USP, and ISMP are followed. Complies with all requirements of OSHA and the Department of Public Health.
• Ensures appropriate department staff levels and oversees scheduling. Monitors productivity and makes appropriate adjustments. Ensures optimal use of supplies for cost-effectiveness and efficiency.
• Identifies quality and safety risks in department operations and clinical practices. Establishes and implements quality and safety improvements. Ensures medication safety event reporting is completed.
• Supports pharmacy and interdisciplinary goals at both the system and site level. Leads the implementation of system initiatives and policies, and monitors compliance at the site. Collaborates with other site leaders to meet site goals, provide interdisciplinary services and resolve site issues.
• Ensures team members perform identified clinical and operational pharmacy services to support patient care. Collaborates effectively with other site leaders and departments. Monitors effectiveness of department services. Leads quality improvement projects within the department and site.
• Identifies, plans and develops new and improved services through evaluation and innovation.
• Performs human resources responsibilities for staff which include interviewing and selection of new employees, promotions, staff development, performance evaluations, compensation changes, resolution of employee concerns, corrective actions, terminations, and overall employee morale.
• Develops and recommends operating and capital budgets and controls expenditures within approved budget objectives.
• Responsible for understanding and adhering to the organization's Code of Ethical Conduct and for ensuring that personal actions, and the actions of employees supervised, comply with the policies, regulations and laws applicable to the organization's business.

Benefits

• Comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs
• Competitive compensation
• Generous retirement offerings
• Programs that invest in your career development
• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program

What This Job Offers

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