About the role
Your Role
The Clinical Pharmacy Programs team is responsible for the development, implementation, coordination, and assessment of pharmacy programs addressing medication therapy issues of Blue Shield of California members to improve quality and cost-effectiveness. The Manager, Pharmacist will report to the Pharmacist Senior Manager, Clinical Pharmacy Operations. In this role you will work with internal and external stakeholders to achieve shared goals and objectives that enhance BSC member and population health outcomes while optimizing healthcare resources, ensuring that members have access to pharmaceuticals they need, and that the medications they take are improving health and cost effective.
Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.
Your Work
In this role, you will:
Responsible for managing daily operations and employees of the program area. Provides training, training opportunities, mentoring and coaching for direct reports
Responsible for the development, implementation, coordination and assessment of programs addressing medication therapy issues of Blue Shield of California members to improve quality and cost-effectiveness
Develops and analyzes prescription drug and medical claims data to identify opportunities to improve quality and cost of healthcare
Develops project proposals for identified opportunities and supports implementation.
Regularly monitors program data and metrics to evaluate program effectiveness and outcomes; reports to appropriate committees, managers, and other internal or external stakeholders
Serve as a Pharmacy contact and subject matter expert to stakeholders, and manage external relationships (vendors, clients) related to assigned work
Perform other duties as needed
Your Knowledge and Experience
Requires a currently active and unrestricted California Registered Pharmacist (RPh) license
Requires a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree from an accredited school of pharmacy in the U.S
Requires 7 years of experience in a managed care setting
Requires 2 years of people management experience gained as a team leader, supervisor, project/program manager, or manager of contingent workers
Requires excellent oral and written communication skills
Requires strong project/program management, analytic, and critical thinking skills
Requires thorough clinical knowledge of the therapeutic use of drugs
Hybrid
This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.
Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.