Drug Utilization Management Specialist - Pharmacy 500P (Full-Time, 8-Hour Day Shifts)

Strategic Thinking And Leadership Development

This position is focused on strategic thinking and leadership development at SHC and SHC Tri-Valley. Responsibilities include ensuring medication use aligns with evidence-based best practices and regulatory standards, coordinating clinical education across various healthcare settings, including clinics, hospitals, and contracted providers, and implementing cross-departmental clinical initiatives.

Locations Stanford Health Care What you will do

• Continuous Improvement in Medication Utilization Identify, design, analyze complex datasets, and implement clinical pharmacy interventions focused on driving evidence-based, safe, and cost-effective drug use. Identify and anticipate major therapeutic changes that impact enterprise-wide drug utilization patterns. Perform in-depth reviews of drug information to ensure safety and efficacy of drug utilization initiatives. Develop and drive clinical and operational strategies to shift drug utilization and promote high quality and cost-effective care. Direct, coach and support operational leaders, pharmacists, pharmacy residents, and pharmacy students to ensure optimal performance of medication utilization initiatives; this may include overseeing the drug use management process and data collection activities. Collaborate and coordinate with pharmacy operational leaders to identify and develop strategic initiatives aimed at advancing value-based care and ensuring financial sustainability of the department and organization. Create and implement policies related to clinical pharmacy practices, formulary, and medication management.
• Performance Monitoring and Education Develop appropriate KPIs and maintain report cards and dashboards for medication utilization initiatives to ensure the effectiveness of clinical pharmacy interventions and identify opportunities to maximize prescribing performance. Run, review, and perform audits to identify gaps in medication use patterns, training knowledge, and areas for staff performance improvement. Educate health care professionals regarding recent innovations in pharmaceutical practice, drug cost issues, clinical outcomes issues, etc via presentations, digital communications, formal utilization review, and one-on-one conversations. Provide training, analytical support, and ongoing performance feedback to providers and staff regarding initiative outcomes. Oversee the development, documentation, provision, and preparation of training information, ensuring that materials are updated to meet the training needs of operational leaders, clinical pharmacists, pharmacy residents, and interdisciplinary staff. Assist the Director of Drug Utilization with development and implementation of clinical pharmacy protocols, policies, and procedures.

Education Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy with Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree.

Experience Qualifications

• 5-7 years of clinical pharmacy experience in a health system required, including but not limited to, managed care pharmacy experience.
• ASHP-accredited pharmacy residency or equivalent experience required.
• Pharmacy leadership with supervisory experience preferred.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical pharmacy practice, pharmacy operations, and the use of electronic health records.
• Evidence of past leadership experience with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across multiple departments.
• Excellent analytical skills to interpret and drive trends, assess budget impact, and conduct financial forecasting.
• Excellent presentation, management, and communication skills, particularly with indirect reports, including pharmacists, residents, and operational leaders.
• Proficiency in developing educational content and training programs for pharmacy staff.
• Ability to think strategically and develop business/clinical tactics that optimize drug utilization while ensuring safety and compliance.
• Knowledgeable in performance improvement concepts including identifying improvement opportunities, setting goals, tracking results, and driving performance.
• Strong interpersonal skills to effectively function within the department and organization, with skills in prioritization, problem-solving, team building, collaboration, conflict resolution, and decision-making.
• Ability to work in a complex team environment and collaborate with external and internal professionals.

Licenses and Certifications

• CA-RPH (Register Pharmacist) required

These principles apply to ALL employees: SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford's patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery. You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family's perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $83.98 - $111.27 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.