Chief Pharmacy Officer

Chief Pharmacy Officer

The Chief Pharmacy Officer is an executive position responsible for comprehensive strategic and operational pharmacy services leadership for Providence Health System. The Chief Pharmacy Officer (CPO) is expected to lead the transformation of pharmacy services across all divisions within the health system, bridging leadership in delivering pharmaceutical strategies system-wide. He or she will ensure the delivery of safe, effective, high-value and accountable pharmaceutical services across the continuum to ensure high-performance affordability, patient experience and health outcomes for those served. This individual will function as a member of the Providence clinical senior executive leadership team, which has responsibility for the development and implementation of a high-performance delivery system. This role can be located in either our Seattle, WA, Irvine, CA or Portland, OR markets.

Key Responsibilities include :

• Leadership Oversight : Accountability for financial sustainability, regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and clinical and quality program oversight within Providence. Through a well-defined pharmacy management structure and operating governance framework, accountable for executing strategies and tactics for pharmacy services (clinical and product-level services) across business units and programs, assisting regional and local implementations.
• Pharmacy Technology Investment Oversight : Provides consultative expertise and influence to pharmacy business units and assists in guiding regional and system direction on key pharmacy technology investment decisions.
• Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Oversight : System oversight for efficient pharmacy supply chain practices across all business units within Providence such that economies of scale and operational efficiencies are maximized in service to triple aim.
• Quality and Safety Oversight : Provides strategic consultative expertise for medication management-related quality initiatives for the system through the Clinical Council and regional quality councils.
• Relationship Management Oversight : Maintains close relations with each pharmacy leader to ensure that a collaborative matrixed model is sustained.
• Pharmacy Workforce Development Oversight : Assists regional and local leadership in the establishment and maintenance of safe, supportive, and healthy work environments in which to practice pharmacy throughout the system.
• Demonstrating Business Effectiveness : Collaborates with finance and executive leadership across the system to create partnerships, in order to ensure the sustainability and growth of pharmaceutical services.

Qualifications : The appropriate candidate for this position will possess an RPh or PharmD degree with a qualified and unrestricted license, along with ten years of pharmacy management experience in the hospital, health plan, or medical group setting, including staff accountability and a proven track record of results. Additional qualifications sought include : experience in pharmaceutical contracting, P&T committee organization, and pharmacy integration in clinical practice; training in negotiations and communications; familiarity with process improvement approaches and their application in clinical settings; leadership and communication skills proven within clinical settings.

About Providence : At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of "Know me, care for me, ease my way." Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we'll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.