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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.

Educational Requirements:

• Graduate Degree - Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy - Minimum.
• Completion of an ASHP accredited residency program -- Preferred

Licenses and Certifications:

• California Pharmacist license - required
• Advanced Practice Pharmacist License -- preferred
• Board certification in a relevant area of practice -- preferred

What Else Are We Looking For?

• Minimum of 2-year experience in outpatient pharmacy setting; hospital outpatient pharmacy experience preferred.
• Previous supervisory or management 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.

Physical Demands:

• Frequent sitting; walking, bending; reaching, occasional pushing, pulling, lifting of materials up to 50 pounds.
• Responsiveness to auditory alarms and communication devices including, telephones, pagers, fire alarms, and mechanical failure alarms.
• Sufficient mobility to access equipment, patients, and other customers.
• Able to read information on medication labels.