What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pharmacy Manager – UPMC Presbyterian position at UPMC?
Lead with purpose. Drive innovation. Shape the future of pharmacy care.
UPMC Presbyterian is seeking a Pharmacy Manager to join our inpatient pharmacy leadership team. In this role, you will lead pharmacy technician supervisors and pharmacist interns, driving operational excellence, fostering engagement, and building a strong talent pipeline during a transformative period. Step into a role where bold leadership meets groundbreaking opportunity—impacting patient care at one of the nation’s leading academic hospitals.
What’s Ahead:
- Implementation of advanced technology and automation
- Activation of our state-of-the-art hospital in Kamin Tower
- Accreditation of our technician training program
Key Responsibilities
- Operational Leadership: Design and improve pharmacy services for safe, efficient, and cost-effective medication use.
- Talent Development: Lead internship programs and technician workforce strategy. Mentor interns and guide supervisors to foster growth, retention, and a strong talent pipeline.
- Compliance & Quality: Ensure regulatory compliance and integrate quality improvement principles into daily operations.
- Staff & Budget Management: Recruit and mentor the development of high-performing teams. Oversee scheduling and manage operational costs.
- Collaboration & Innovation: Partner with clinical leaders, support education and research, and champion adoption of new technologies.
Join a team that values integrity, innovation, and professional growth—and help us deliver world-class care to every patient, every time.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement operational services, including dispensing and compounded product preparation, which support the pharmacists' provision of pharmaceutical care.
- Maintain productive, collaborative relationships with physicians, nurses, departmental managers and others in clinical leadership roles to achieve short and long-term goals for related programs and clinical services.
- Develop, implement, direct and monitor the delivery of pharmaceutical care. Ensure patient/customer satisfaction and implements measures to correct perceived deficiencies in care and service.
- Facilitate staff involvement in established departmental programs, e.g. quality improvement, patient/professional education and staff development. Develop staff advancement opportunities and fosters an environment conducive to innovation and progressive learning.
- Promote, support and conduct research related to practice.
- Integrate the distributive and cognitive aspects of pharmaceutical care.
- Assist with the recruitment, hiring and mentors staff and colleagues through feedback, positive discipline and performance evaluations. Enforce progressive corrective action appropriately.
- Ensure provision of cost-effective drug therapy through analysis of patient outcomes; validate that care is provided according to current standards of practice; support and monitor the quality improvement program.
- Maintain a current body of knowledge in the areas of their service with regard to drug therapy and technology. Complete all staff pharmacist competencies.
- Schedule pharmacists to effectively cover the hours of operations of the pharmacy as well as on call hours.
- Assure pharmacy is in compliance with all federal and state regulations.
- Assist with the preparation and monitor the budget for areas of responsibility, including drug, purchased services and personnel costs.