Pharmacist-System Specialist, FT Days

Prisma Health•Richland, WA

About The Position

The Pharmacist-System Specialist leads and manages projects and systems, ensuring delivery within scope, quality, schedule, and cost constraints. The role serves as a clinical subject matter expert and may participate in selecting, planning, and executing products, services, and outcomes beyond regular departmental duties. The specialist may also initiate projects, under pharmacy administration’s direction, to improve existing operations. The position works regularly with pharmacy executives, directors, functional managers, clinical pharmacists, and non-pharmacy clinical, ancillary, information services, and marketing teams. It coordinates project team members and evaluates productivity, communication, and teamwork while overseeing multiple concurrent projects or systems and ensuring their integration across the department. The role identifies project and system strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and risks. Remote work is permitted at the discretion of the reporting operational leader. This is a non-management role in Acute Care Informatics Support, reporting to a supervisor, manager, director, or executive. The position is based at the Corporate facility in Richland and works the day shift.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from an ACPE-approved College of Pharmacy.
Two years of experience in project management, system management, project coordination, and/or general business management.
Licensed to practice as a pharmacist, or eligible to become licensed within four months of hire, in the state where the team member works.
Interpersonal skills.
Problem-solving ability.
Ability to work in dynamic interdisciplinary team situations and handle urgent, stressful conditions.
Ability to communicate effectively with subordinates, peers, supervisors, and people outside the department.
Knowledge of medical and pharmacy terminology.
Mathematical skills.
Computer skills.
Understanding of BOP, DHEC, and DEA rules and regulations.

Nice To Haves

PharmD degree.
Pharmacy experience.

Responsibilities

Assess project or system feasibility through research and stakeholder engagement.
Collect requirements, objectives, and acceptance criteria from sponsors and stakeholders.
Ensure project objectives align with department and enterprise objectives.
Identify, prioritize, and schedule deliverables, milestones, and required activities.
Work with operational leadership to estimate resources, activity durations, and costs.
Prepare and update project documentation, including charters, work breakdown structures, sign-offs, and lessons learned.
Follow established reporting and documentation standards and procedures.
Work with operational leadership to recruit or assign team members to tasks.
Evaluate individual and team performance and provide feedback to operational leadership.
Monitor project and system activities and ensure information accuracy, quality, and integrity.
Perform risk assessments and implement mitigation plans.
Ensure project and system results meet agreed business objectives.
Facilitate project closure by archiving documentation and conducting review sessions with stakeholders.
Work with operational leadership to transition deliverables to functional teams.
Evaluate operational workflows and develop process improvement initiatives.
Anticipate, mitigate, and solve workflow problems.
Incorporate feedback from patients, clinical staff, ancillary staff, and leaders to improve performance.
Standardize and customize workflow initiatives for individual clinical sites.
Facilitate collaboration and communication among operational, clinical, and ancillary staff.
Guide and educate project, system, and operational stakeholders.
Help resolve and prevent conflict among teammates.
Recognize individual and team achievements and encourage leadership and professional development.
Perform other duties as assigned.