Sr Mgr, Pharmacy Operations, Outpatient
Kaiser Permanente
- Location
- Downey, CA, Flexible, Regular, Full-time, Day shift, 40 hours
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Senior
About this role
Job Summary
In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is also responsible for advocating for perpetual inventory development and implementation; developing status reports, project plans, and documentation to ensure timely development of perpetual inventory and sharing of outcomes/best practices; providing guidance on resolving major internal control problems within programs to ensure timely resolution; overseeing budgeting, payroll, and all other financial parameters; driving teams to ensure alignment and removing roadblocks in implementation processes aligned with the demands of National Pharmacy Operations that enhance quality, improve service, and enhance cost effectiveness; reviewing and guiding workflows; reviewing and suggesting improvements to quality management programs; advocating for others to follow organizational and department policies and procedures; collaborating with program office, finance, vendors, pharmacy leadership, medical group, legal, and other relevant stakeholders to drive acceptance and success of perpetual inventory deployment; and monitoring pharmacy acquisitions for the program and directing assimilation into national best practices, standards, and technology with dotted line influence and coordination with all service line departments.
Essential Responsibilities
Creates and advocates for developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works with leaders and employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; hires, trains, and develops talent for growth opportunities; strategically evaluates talent for succession planning; sets performance management guidelines and expectations across teams / units. Oversees implementation, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams; motivates teams to meet business objectives. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making; fosters access to stakeholders. Manages designated units or teams by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed; partners with key stakeholders and business leaders to ensure products and/or services meet requirements and expectations while aligning with departmental strategies. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; assumes responsibility for decision making; fosters direct reports to resolve escalated issues as appropriate. Communicates goals and objectives; incorporates resources, costs, and forecasts into team and unit plans; ensures matrixed resources are fulfilling service or performance requirements across reporting lines. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams and units to operate in alignment with operational and business objectives. Oversees service area in creation of patient care strategies to pharmacy and healthcare professionals by: guiding the teams usage of analytics and informatics to track prescription use data and creating best practices and guidelines; leading in meetings of regional and/or national pharmacy and therapeutics committees to oversee support for front-line operations; and championing a patient focus mindset for others to leverage during their work at all times, and puts structures, incentives, and processes in place to encourage a