Description

The Opportunity

**This position requires relocation to Colorado**

Vice President, Pharmacy Services

The Vice President, Pharmacy Services is a key member of the UCHealth senior leadership team responsible for developing and executing key initiatives that support the overall strategic pharmacy plan for all pharmacy verticals to include inpatient, infusion, specialty, retail, and ambulatory clinical services. The Vice President, Pharmacy Services works across UCHealth to ensure that medications in all settings are safe and accessible, with focus on maximizing quality patient outcomes and financial stewardship. The Vice President of Pharmacy Services will provide vision, leadership, and oversight for the UCHealth system in alignment with its mission, vision, goals, and values. The Vice President will collaborate with organizational leaders to execute on initiatives that provide exceptional care and promote patient experience across the entire continuum of care for UCHealth.

Reporting Relationships

Reports to: The President and Chief Executive Officer of the University of Colorado Hospital

Direct Reports: Senior Director of Outpatient Pharmacy, Director of Pharmacy Clinical Services, Director of Oncology/Infusion Pharmacy Services, Director of Pharmacy Services for the North Region, Director of Pharmacy Services for the South Region, Director of Pharmacy Business Services, and Director of System Drug Diversion

Specific Responsibilities

• Oversees all UCHealth pharmacy operations for all vertical pharmacy business lines – inpatient, infusion, retail, specialty, ambulatory clinical, as well as 340B optimization and pharmacy business services.
• Provides direction and leadership on policy, procedure, and key strategic initiatives.
• Uses industry trends and data analytics to prioritize and execute on opportunities to improve operational excellence, financial performance and maximize market leadership.
• Collaborate with other senior leaders to develop and execute on organizational strategic priorities.
• Drives excellence with key medication use performance indicators to improve quality, safety, and execution of the quintuple aim of healthcare improvement.
• Tracks financial performance across all pharmacy business lines and collaborates with regional and system financial leadership to identify and execute on savings and revenue opportunities.
• Promotes and leads in a culture of high reliability, promoting medication use initiatives that drive safety.
• Assesses and maximizes system regulatory compliance with applicable medication use Federal and State regulatory and accreditation body requirements, including 340B and USP 797-800 regulations.
• Responsibility for driving the overall system pharmacy strategic plan, assessing performance, and resolving barriers that impact execution.
• Lead and prioritize initiatives that drive pharmacy patient experience across the continuum of care.
• Responsibility for assessing medication security and drug diversion prevention strategies across all pharmacy verticals, using analytics and key initiatives to minimize organizational risk.
• Partners with supply chain to execute contracting and savings initiatives, along with mitigation of impact of drug shortages to patient care.
• Co-chairs and leads the System Pharmacy Therapeutics Committee.
• Oversees the purchase and operation of medication use technologies in addition to optimization of clinical information systems to effectively maximize safety and efficiencies across the enterprise.

Candidate Qualifications

The culture at UCHealth is results driven, and each member has high expectations for themselves as well as those with whom they partner and lead. This individual will be joining a high performing, fast-paced team and, as such, we have outlined characteristics that describe the ideal candidate for the VP, Pharmacy Services role:

Candidates will be comfortable working in a fast-paced academic organization. They will exude honesty, respect, trust, integrity, and high ethical standards and serve in a supportive, open and direct manner.

The successful candidate will meet the following requirements:

Education/Certification

• 10 years of related experience, including 5 years of leadership experience preferably at the system level
• State licensure as a pharmacist
• Experience to include leadership in multiple pharmacy business lines including hospital inpatient, infusion, ambulatory and specialty/retail pharmacy areas.
• Masters degree preferred

Skills and Abilities

• Skilled at driving strategy, growth and operational objectives for inpatient, infusion, specialty, retail, and ambulatory clinical pharmacy services.
• Skilled at interpreting and leading industry process improvement initiatives based on benchmarking data to continually achieve higher levels of excellence and lower utilization of resources.
• Skilled at leading large multi-hospital pharmacy operations through tracking key performance metrics and indicators of success.
• Develop and empower management teams to lead daily operations, resolve issues, manage employee performance, manage physician relations, ensure high quality patient care and service excellence, and maximize operational efficiencies.
• Skilled at overseeing multi-million-dollar pharmacy budgets and revenue cycle performance in all health system pharmacy business lines.
• Skilled at specialty and retail pharmacy operations and driving patient experience and value initiatives. Expertise with maximizing 340B regulations and key optimization initiatives.

Pay: $261,643 - $451,339 annually. Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience

At UCHealth, We Improve Lives

We improve lives. In big ways through learning, healing, and discovery. In small, personal ways through human connection. But in all ways, we improve lives.

UCHealth invests in its Workforce.

UCHealth offers a Three Year Incentive Bonus to recognize employee’s contributions to our success in quality, patient experience, organizational growth, financial goals, and tenure with UCHealth. The bonus accumulates annually each October and is paid out in October following completion of three years’ employment.

UCHealth offers their employees a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package:

• Medical, dental and vision coverage including coverage for eligible dependents
• 403(b) with employer matching contributions
• Time away from work: paid time off (PTO), paid family and medical leave (inclusive of Colorado FAMLI), leaves of absence; start your employment at UCHealth with PTO in your bank
• Employer-paid basic life and accidental death and dismemberment coverage with buy-up coverage options
• Employer paid short term disability and long-term disability with buy-up coverage options
• Wellness benefits
• Full suite of voluntary benefits such as flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care, health savings accounts (available with HD/HSA medical plan only), identity theft protection, pet insurance, and employee discount programs
• Education benefits for employees, including the opportunity to be eligible for 100% of tuition, books and fees paid for by UCHealth for specific educational degrees. Other programs may qualify for up to $5,250 pre-paid by UCHealth or in the form of tuition reimbursement each calendar year

Loan Repayment:

• UCHealth is a qualifying employer for the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program! UCHealth provides employees with free assistance navigating the PSLF program to submit their federal student loans for forgiveness through Savi.

UCHealth always welcomes talent. This position will be open for a minimum of three days and until a top applicant is identified.

UCHealth recognizes and appreciates the rich array of talents and perspectives that equal employment and diversity can offer our institution. As an equal opportunity employer, UCHealth is committed to making all employment decisions based on valid requirements. No applicant shall be discriminated against in any terms, conditions or privileges of employment or otherwise be discriminated against because of the individual's race, color, national origin, language, culture, ethnicity, age, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender, veteran status, socioeconomic status, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state, or local law. UCHealth does not discriminate against any qualified applicant with a disability as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act and will make reasonable accommodations, when they do not impose an undue hardship on the organization.

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