Pharmacy Manager - Community Pharmacy

Pharmacy Manager

Opportunities with Genoa Healthcare. A career with Genoa Healthcare means you're part of a collaborative effort to serve behavioral health and addiction treatment communities. We do more than just provide medicine: we change lives for the better. People with serious mental or chronic illness - and those who care for them - have moving stories, and at Genoa we become their voice, their partner. Working as part of a coordinated care team, we partner with community-based providers and others to ensure that people with complex health conditions get the right medications and are able to follow their treatment plans. Our personalized services - in-clinic pharmacies, medication management and more - are leading the way to a new level of care.

Genoa is a pharmacy care services company that is part of Optum and UnitedHealth Group's family of businesses. We are part of a leading information and technology-enabled health services business dedicated to making the health system work better for everyone. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Pharmacy Manager is a key position that has a substantial impact with our consumers and clinic partners by partnering and advising both on our pharmaceutical care services and benefits. This individual is responsible for the financial, clinical and quality for pharmacy services and will oversee the daily operations of a pharmacy including dispensing prescription medication and spending one-on-one time with the consumers. Coaching, developing and managing pharmacy staff is also a key responsibility of this role. The manager will act as a talent steward and proactively seek top talent for the pharmacy roles.

Location: Santa Barbara County Department of Behavioral Health, 4444 Calle Real, Santa Barbara, CA

Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5:00pm

Primary Responsibilities:

• Creates a great consumer and clinic partner experience and continually builds strong relationships with both groups to proactively meet their needs
• Serves as an expert to the clinical staff and proactively meets with their team on meeting their clinical outcomes
• Counsels and educates patients on the usage of medications, adverse effects, schedules and any personal questions from the consumers
• Ensures the pharmacy and team members follow policies and standards in accordance with state and federal laws
• Performs wellness services such as immunizations, flu shots and other preventive services
• Responsible for financial profitability and identifies opportunities to drive growth in the pharmacy
• Motivates, develops and coaches all pharmacy staff to ensure they are meeting their potential and delivering exceptional service
• Creates an engaging team environment which promotes compassion and models our core values and culture amongst the team
• Proactively promotes opportunities and recruiting top talent at our pharmacies
• Reviews key performance indicators with pharmacy staff and identifies trends and opportunities for improvement
• Conducts workforce planning and business planning to have operational excellence at the site
• Builds strong relationships with the community, stakeholders and clinic partners to ensure we are meeting all needs and promote the pharmacy business
• Drives marketing plans and materials to promote all pharmacy offerings

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy or PharmD
• Current pharmacist's license in the state of California
• Certified immunizer or willing to become an immunizer within 3 months of hire
• Willing to complete LAI Training and administer LAIs
• Willing complete PIC Training

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of pharmacy leadership experience
• Bilingual in Spanish

Management Success Practices:

• Being customer centric: These leaders are finding out what their customers want, then design processes and plan the work to create a better customer experience.
• Developing Others: Managers need to make sure that the right talent is in the right job, with capabilities aligned to the demands of the work. Managers who set the conditions for development act as talent stewards. By providing ongoing coaching and feedback and supporting mobility into other roles or development experiences, they help employees achieve fulfilling results.
• Communicating enterprise purpose: This includes communicating vision, values, culture, strategy, objectives and goals. The manager and the team then have to translate the purpose into the specific tasks of the team, so everyone know where everything fits.
• Creating high performing teams: Creating and fostering high-performing teams is essential. An effective team has task clarity and right assembly of talent to do the job. Team members have accountabilities and know what to do. The team culture is collaborative. Measures are in place to monitor progress, including feedback loops to add corrective advice and counsel.
• Assuring results: Managers must deliver through others. They keep their teams on task, focusing on specific goals and targets. Managers will execute on plans while leveraging internal and external customer and stakeholder feedback to make adjustments.
• Technical and functional skills: These leaders know their industry, technical platform, key function of all roles and is a life-long learner.

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The hourly pay for this role will range from $54 - $93 per hour based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.