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

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Mid = $
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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.

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;

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