What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Quality Management position at Senderra Specialty Pharmacy?
Company Overview
Senderra RX Pharmacy is a dedicated specialty pharmacy committed to delivering personalized, technology-driven healthcare solutions. We prioritize improving patient outcomes by leveraging innovative data and technology platforms, ensuring exceptional service to patients, prescribers, pharmaceutical companies, and payors.
Education / Licensing Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, or a related field preferred.
Experience Requirements:
- 5-7 years of progressive experience in quality management, quality assurance, or operations leadership, preferably within a specialty pharmacy, healthcare, or call center environment.
- Prior experience managing SOP governance, training programs, and quality audit functions required.
- Proven experience leading and developing managers or supervisors across multiple teams.
Position Overview:
The Director of Quality Management leads the organization's overall quality strategy, with primary ownership of quality assurance while also overseeing broader operational functions that support consistent, compliant, and high-performing service delivery.
Positions reporting to this position: Quality Assurance Teams (Quality Audit Team Captains/Leads and Specialists), Operations Specialist(s), Key Accounts Team(s), SWAT (Urgents) Manager
Essential Skills/Experience:
- Strong strategic and critical thinking skills
- Demonstrated quality management systems and program management expertise
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Proven leadership and people-development skills across multiple teams/functions
- Strong analytical skills; ability to translate audit and performance data into action
- Experience building, documenting, and maintaining SOPs and training materials
- Change management skills; ability to drive adoption of new/updated processes
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and quality/reporting tools
- Knowledge of applicable healthcare/pharmacy regulatory and accreditation requirements a plus
Characteristics:
- Dedicated to excellence & quality
- Strategic and self-directed
- Sense of urgency; drives accountability
- Detail oriented; catches errors and gaps early
- Ethical; respects confidentiality
- Collaborative leader who builds strong cross-functional relationships
Responsibilities:
- Owns fee-for-service (FFS) quality management, ensuring programs such as free goods are administered accurately, compliantly, and consistently.
- Establishes audit checkpoints and controls to monitor FFS program adherence.
- Partners with program owners to resolve quality gaps and reduce risk.
- Ensures training documentation stays current and reflects how operation teams work relative to SOPs.
- Audits training materials against live SOPs to identify and close gaps.
- Establishes a recurring review cadence for training content and recertification.
- Owns the SOP lifecycle, partnering with department managers to update SOPs as new opportunities, process changes, or regulatory requirements arise.
- Maintains a master SOP repository with version control and a formal approval workflow.
- Facilitates cross-departmental SOP reviews to ensure consistency.
- Builds and maintains an enterprise-wide quality management framework across all operational departments.
- Develops quality KPIs, scorecards, and dashboards; reports performance to senior leadership.
- Leads root cause analysis and corrective/preventive action processes for recurring or high-impact quality issues.
- Manages the Key Accounts team member(s) who work directly with key offices to ensure quick, reliable turnarounds.
- Sets and monitors turnaround-time standards and service expectations for key office relationships.
- Serves as an escalation point when a key office relationship needs director-level attention.
- Provides guidance and direction to the Operations Specialist(s), who operate independently day-to-day, to help them identify where current needs sit so they can plug in quickly on urgent cases.
- Maintains visibility in workload and capacity trends to inform where Operations Specialist attention is most needed.
- Offers coaching and judgment calls when Operations Specialist(s) need direction on prioritization between planned work and emerging urgent needs.
- Owns the SWAT (Urgents) function's strategy and results, managing the SWAT Manager who runs day-to-day team execution.
- Partners with the SWAT Manager to define and refine the process for triaging, assigning, and resolving urgent/escalated cases.
- Identifies the root causes and upstream gaps that allow cases to become urgent in the first place and drives fixes to those gaps, so recurrence decreases over time.
- Reviews urgent-case volume and root-cause trends with the SWAT Manager, reporting findings and resolution plans to leadership.
- Directs, coaches, and develops the leaders of the Quality Assurance teams, Key Accounts team, and SWAT Manager, and provides guidance to the Operations Specialist(s), setting goals and performance standards.
- Ensures quality practices align with applicable regulatory and accreditation requirements.
- Partners cross-functionally with Pharma Business Development, Operations, IT, and Sales to embed quality controls into new initiatives, programs, and technology.
- Identifies trends across audits, complaints, and quality data to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Presents quality performance, risks, and improvement plans to executive leadership on a regular basis.
- Performs all tasks in a manner consistent with corporate policies as well as state and federal laws.
- Knowledgeable regarding Senderra's community values and demonstrates them daily.
- Other duties as assigned.
Working Conditions:
- Fast-paced environment.
- Requires normal vision (corrected) both close and distant.
- Requires normal hearing levels (corrected).
- Requires working at a desk to use a phone and computer for extended periods of time. Requires sitting, bending.
- Works effectively with frequent interruptions.
- Lifting requirements of 15 lbs. occasionally.
- Minimal travel <5%.
Organizational Relationships: Reports to the VP of Operations.
Pay: From $110,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
Benefits:
Health Insurance, 401K PlanSalary : $110,000