VP & Chief Pharmacy Officer

Work Status Details: REGULAR FULL TIME | 80.00 Hours Every Two Weeks
Shift: Days
Pay Rate Type: Annual Salary
Location: Yuma Medical Center

Listed is the base hiring salary range offered for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors, including but not limited to skills and experience. The salary range listed is just one component of the total rewards/compensation package offered to candidates.
Min = $214,004.07
Mid = $278,205.29
Max = $342,406.51

Summary:

The VP & Chief Pharmacy Officer (CPO) is responsible for leading and managing the pharmacy services across Onvida Health’s multiple campuses, including inpatient, outpatient, and clinical pharmacy operations. This role ensures strategic growth and alignment of pharmacy services with the organization’s mission, vision, and long-term objectives. The VP & CPO will provide executive leadership in pharmacy operations, fiscal management, quality improvement, and human resources management, while ensuring exceptional patient care, operational excellence, and continuous innovation within the department. The role includes overseeing all pharmacy-related functions across the system and driving integrated, collaborative strategies for service-line expansion, clinical support, and new opportunities for growth.

Responsibilities:

Planning/Vision: Competency: Provides vision, forward thinking and strategic planning in a proactive manner while being open-minded and creative in establishing a strategic direction; develops through an integration of ideas of those involved, an organized strategy to achieve both short and long term objectives for the department; effectively communicates strategy to obtain commitment by the responsible individuals. Accountability: Leads the strategic planning process for the respective department. As plans are developed, these plans and objectives are integrated within the plans of the medical center. The incumbent works with others in leadership as well as physicians to identify and evaluate programs and emerging technologies. Provide visionary leadership and strategic direction for all pharmacy operations across Onvida Health’s campuses and outpatient services. Develop and implement long-term strategic plans that align with Onvida Health’s overarching goals, ensuring that pharmacy services contribute to organizational growth, cost control, and innovation in patient care. Collaborate with system leadership, physicians, and clinical operations managers to evaluate emerging healthcare trends, new technologies, and expansion opportunities. Lead the development and execution of multi-campus pharmacy services strategies, ensuring integration across all service lines and alignment with clinical and business goals. Promote and champion the role of pharmacy in the broader healthcare system, focusing on new service areas, market expansion, and delivery of value-based care.

Fiscal Management: Competency: Demonstrates a personal accountability for financial results through development of an annual budget and operational plan and management of performance based on plan; engages staff in efforts to contain costs and improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of services; understands the basics of health care financial management. Accountability: Establishes budget targets for department, provides oversight for the process, and holds self and other individuals accountable for compliance with annual budget plan. Identifies program or service growth opportunities and methodologies to enhance revenues. Able to manage to a volume adjusted budget. Oversee the development and management of the department’s annual budget, ensuring effective cost containment, revenue growth, and financial sustainability across all pharmacy services. Implement and refine financial tracking processes to ensure optimal resource allocation, cost-effectiveness, and volume-adjusted performance goals. Collaborate with finance, business development, and clinical teams to identify new revenue-generating opportunities and service expansions, especially in outpatient pharmacy services.

Customer Service: Competency: Exhibits unyielding commitment to providing excellent service to patients, physicians, employees and other customers; demonstrates strong communication skills through effective exchange of information with others, including written and oral communication, active listening, influencing the behavior of others and building personal rapport; communicates with others in an open and friendly manner, while simultaneously building credibility and rapport; exhibits strong interactive skills through a demonstration of respecting others' feelings, ideas and opinions; fosters an open interchange, displays a genuine understanding and acceptance of others; demonstrates perceptivity regarding others' feelings, ideas and opinions. Accountability: Responsible for assuring a respectful work environment. Sets the tone in the department by communicating values and attitudes that will significantly shape the culture of the group. Models appropriate behaviors and values; sets expectations for respectful behavior with all employees. Supports collaboration between patients, families, health care practitioners, and health care leaders in policy and program development, implementation, and evaluation; in facility design; professional education, and delivery of care. Ensure consistent and effective communication across the pharmacy services department and with senior leadership, providing updates on department performance, strategic initiatives, and operational challenges. Oversee internal and external communications, ensuring alignment with Onvida Health’s strategic messaging, organizational values, and public relations goals. Serve as the primary spokesperson for pharmacy services, representing the department in community outreach, media relations, and public-facing initiatives. 

Operational Management / Quality in Everything We Do: Competency: Exhibits a commitment to operational management and completing tasks through personal initiative, persistence; demonstrates an ability to plan, organize, coordinate, prioritize, balance workload and follow through to achieve institutional and individual goals and objectives; demonstrates use of good judgments and sound decision making (common sense, intuition, data collection, analytical skills, impact evaluation, communications) to systematically address problems, define alternate solutions, negotiate and facilitate implementation of solutions; balances need for consensus and involvement with need for decisiveness and action; provides consistent and open encouragement to trying new and creative approaches, yet willing to make a decision and take a stand; contributes new ideas and new ways of thinking to improve departmental performance and services; identifies need for change and develops/accepts creative approaches and solutions; participates in performance improvement activities, and by challenging processes, eliminates inefficient/ineffective procedures and waste by collaborating with co-workers or across departments to improve processes; implements an effective and on-going program to monitor, evaluate and improve the quality of services delivered. Accountability: Direct and monitor pharmacy-related operational activities, ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality patient care while meeting budgetary and operational performance targets. With the assistance of direct reports, develops processes and procedures which are effective, efficient and aligned with organizational goals and values. Responsible for coordinating and integrating intra-hospital services. Ensures division has qualified staff and needed resources in order to deliver safe quality care and outcomes. Establishes performance standards with which to measure effectiveness and efficiency of services. Champion a culture of continuous quality improvement, ensuring adherence to best practices in patient safety, medication management, and regulatory compliance. Oversee the development of systems and processes to evaluate and improve the quality and efficiency of pharmacy services across inpatient and outpatient settings. Lead efforts to comply with regulatory standards and accreditation requirements, ensuring pharmacy services meet or exceed local, state, and federal regulations. Ensure transparent and consistent reporting on quality metrics, clinical outcomes, and community benefit activities to system leadership and regulatory bodies.

System Thinking: Competency: Comprehends how individual actions contribute to the overall good of the institution; understands and is able to communicate how individual and department goals overlap with Onvida Health goals; demonstrates commitment for the good of the organization while maintaining congruence with commitment to the department; recognizes and uses information about organizational climate and key individuals to accomplish legitimate organizational goals; maintains awareness of the importance of timing, politics and group processes in managing change; in-depth collaboration in hospital based physician services; balances department needs, and Onvida Health's needs and can reconcile them without sacrificing the critical needs of either. Accountability: Works collaboratively with a variety of key stakeholders to achieve team, department and Onvida Health’s goals. Drive the integration of pharmacy services across multiple service lines, ensuring effective collaboration with nursing, clinical operations, and senior leadership to achieve organizational goals. Foster strong relationships between the pharmacy department and other clinical departments, ensuring a team-based approach to care that supports patient outcomes. Continuously evaluate operational processes to identify areas for improvement, working cross-functionally to implement changes that increase efficiency and reduce waste. Implement evidence-based practices to ensure that pharmacy services align with the highest standards of clinical care, patient safety, and operational performance. 

Human Resources Management: Competency: Is proactively involved in monitoring staffing needs and is responsible for engaging in recruiting and retention strategies; Develops others through setting clear expectations, mentoring and coaching, and holding others accountable for results; Utilizing work force analysis, identifies required competencies needed for effective management of human resources and is able to identify short and long-term staffing needs; conducts oneself in an honest, credible, trustworthy manner consistent with Onvida Health's values; demonstrates an integration of values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors through an acceptance of responsibility and accountability for individual's own actions. Accountability: Ensures that the workforce has the necessary skills to accomplish the work required to achieve the objectives of the department. Partners with Human Resources to develop long-term human resource plans, anticipating future needs and developing employees able to meet those challenges. Fosters an open working environment for easy access to express ideas and concerns. Demonstrates and expects open communications. Promotes an environment that is open and collaborative while keeping the team focused on a common goal. Builds rapport, encourages teamwork, creates an environment where employees may feel empowered. Lead the recruitment, development, and retention of a highly skilled pharmacy workforce across multiple campuses and outpatient sites. Provide mentorship and professional development opportunities to pharmacy staff, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning. Partner with Human Resources to ensure the department’s staffing levels meet operational needs, while maintaining a positive and inclusive work environment. Ensure that all pharmacy personnel adhere to organizational values and clinical competencies to deliver exceptional care and service.

Community: Competency: Leverages the unique system capabilities (hospital and community providers) to increase value for external and internal customers and eliminate barriers to care; participates in community involvement; champions community involvement in the department and throughout the organization; promotes and encourage community involvement throughout the department and throughout the organization. Accountability: Promote and encourage community involvement throughout the department. Incorporate community goals in overall departmental goals. Demonstrate involvement in community events and hospital partnerships. Maintains appropriate continued education as it relates to the role. Build and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including physicians, clinical leadership, business development, and community organizations. Advocate for the expansion of pharmacy services that enhance patient access to care, support community health initiatives, and strengthen Onvida Health’s role in the regional healthcare ecosystem. Champion Onvida Health’s community benefit programs and initiatives, collaborating with other departments to improve public health outreach and access to pharmacy services. 

Other duties as assigned. 

Credentials:
Essential:
* PHARMACIST
* YRMC FLEET SAFETY CLEARANCE (FLEET)

Education:
Essential:
* DOCTORATE DEGREE

Other information:

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A career at Onvida Health is more than just a job. It’s a place to have a long and rewarding career, making a difference in the lives of those in our shared community. When you join our team, you become an integral part of a thriving community committed to improving the health and well-being of everyone in southwestern Arizona.

At Onvida Health, we believe in progress with purpose. Our commitment to innovation is matched by our dedication to kindness and integrity. We take our values seriously because we know they lead to better outcomes for our patients and a better experience for all of us. We’re looking for people who approach each day with a sense of possibility, a drive to make things better, and a commitment to kindness. If that sounds like you, you’re our kind of people.

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