Ambulatory Pharmacy Director (Clinical Pharmacy) (Los Angeles)

Job Summary :

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is responsible partnering with leading physicians to develop, maintain, and implement advanced clinical practice standing orders, drug therapy management protocols and guidelines (e.g., collaborative protocols with providers), that drive growth and success of Pharmacy Services; identifying, developing, and optimizing complex direct patient care, drug utilization, and educational programs related to ambulatory care across multiple multidisciplinary teams to positively impact patient adherence and outcomes and provider prescribing practices by coordinating multiple teams; removing roadblocks, connecting with senior leadership to develop, and planning for long-term strategic priorities for medication selection, dosage titration, drug monitoring, patient engagement, medication adherence counseling, side effect management, medication discontinuation in alignment with strategic priorities and mission work; driving development and maintenance of senior level relationships with providers to align drug conversion, drug tapering, and discontinuation initiatives and determine opportunities; leading initiative development and championing actionable measurement follow up and minimization of gaps to drive implementation of processes and workflow enterprise-wide; championing enterprise-wide initiatives and resolution of drug utilization management issues, resolving high-impact formulary concerns with industry leading knowledge, owning development of relationships with physician chief partnerships, and influencing formulary adherence enterprise-wide; championing innovative initiatives and clinical services, gaining senior leadership physician engagement to reduce practice variation, and leading alignment throughout implementation of initiatives; encouraging and enabling innovative advancements in new / existing services for a disease state or care grouping / specialty (e.g., MTM) and developing advanced strategies based on patient results after changes are applied.

Essential Responsibilities :

• Prepares individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; builds internal collaborative networks for self and others. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Demonstrates continuous learning; oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Stays up to date with organizational best practices, processes, benchmarks, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives. Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact.
• Oversees the operation of multiple units within a department by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and / or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Gains cross-functional support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and fosters resolution of escalated issues. Communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; prioritizes and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives.
• Oversees drug education and training efforts by :

identifying, developing wide-impact, and optimizing educational needs for patients and providers to positively impact patient compliance and provider prescribing practices.

developing improvements to high-impact content and training sessions about utilization of medicine to senior leaders; closely collaborating with senior health care providers to gather relevant sources on potential changes within the market and upcoming new drugs and analyzes trends to forecast the impacts of new drugs on the