Pharmacy Manager - Outpatient Ambulatory Care
About The Position
The Outpatient Pharmacy Manager at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California provides strategic and operational leadership for the outpatient, discharge pharmacy, overseeing nearly 30 staff members, ensuring high-quality performance, compliance, and professional development. This role serves as the pharmacist-in-charge, responsible for regulatory compliance, and monitors key quality, safety and financial performance indicators. This role oversees and optimizes automation and technology supporting outpatient pharmacy workflows and ensures compliance with controlled substance regulations. Additionally, the manager actively participates in medical center and medical staff committees, quality improvement projects, and precepts pharmacy residents and students to foster clinical excellence and professional growth. The manager partners closely with nursing, case management, physicians, and specialty pharmacy teams to ensure consistent, high-quality service delivery across the care continuum. The role requires strong leadership, communication, and analytical skills, as well as a demonstrated commitment to patient care, teamwork, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Graduate Degree - Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy - Minimum.
- California Pharmacist license - required
- Minimum of 2-year experience in outpatient pharmacy setting; hospital outpatient pharmacy experience preferred.
- Patient Experience: Possesses excellent patient service skills prioritizing patient care needs to support safe effective medication use.
- Team Skills: Collaborates effectively with internal teams and stakeholders to achieve program goals.
- Analytical: Apply critical thinking to analyze and interpret information and/or data. Ability to analyze qualitative and quantitative information for decision support.
- Analytical: Demonstrates good decision-making/problem solving skills. Exhibits good clinical reasoning skills and judgments in managing patients with the highest medical complexity/acuity.
- Communication: Ability to convey and/or receive written/verbal information to/from various audiences in different formats. Communicates effectively and engages in positive inter/intra departmental interaction with peers, physicians, staff and patients.
- Project Management: Initiate, plan, design, implement, and monitor project(s) Ability to manage projects, establish timeliness, analyze data relevant to areas of responsibility. Ability to function independently, ability to plan, Aorganize, direct, monitor and evaluate assigned work.
- Regulatory: Ability to interpret and apply knowledge of State, Federal and Agency standards to comply with regulations.
- Technical: Ability to learn and adapt to the use of software, technology, and automated information systems in daily practice.
Nice To Haves
- Completion of an ASHP accredited residency program
- Advanced Practice Pharmacist License
- Board certification in a relevant area of practice
- Previous supervisory or management experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provides strategic and operational leadership for the outpatient, discharge pharmacy
- Oversees nearly 30 staff members
- Ensuring high-quality performance, compliance, and professional development
- Serves as the pharmacist-in-charge, responsible for regulatory compliance
- Monitors key quality, safety and financial performance indicators
- Oversees and optimizes automation and technology supporting outpatient pharmacy workflows
- Ensures compliance with controlled substance regulations
- Actively participates in medical center and medical staff committees, quality improvement projects
- Precepts pharmacy residents and students to foster clinical excellence and professional growth
- Partners closely with nursing, case management, physicians, and specialty pharmacy teams to ensure consistent, high-quality service delivery across the care continuum
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
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