Pharmacy Manager - Store

Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose:
Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.

Our Heart At Work Behaviors support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.

Job Purpose and

Summary:

At CVS Health, we are focused on transforming health care for our customers and making our company a great place to work. We help people navigate the health care system – and their personal health care – by improving access, lowering costs and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. Within our Retail locations, we bring this promise to life with heart every day.

Our Pharmacy Managers play a critical role in cultivating a culture of excellence in their respective pharmacy by acting as a role model for all, demonstrating genuine care, and setting the bar for their pharmacy team.

As a Pharmacy Manager, you will lead and develop a pharmacy team that provides exceptional patient care by promoting best practices and leading through change while identifying and addressing performance opportunities. Pharmacy Managers support novel program awareness, onboard newly hired pharmacy team members, and recognize colleagues for their success. The Pharmacy Manager consistently exhibits best practices when working the bench, including quarterbacking the team, providing patients with meaningful counseling, and abiding by all legal and regulatory guidelines, amongst other required activities.

The Pharmacy Manager is responsible for direct and effective management of their pharmacy team, including but not limited to:

• Living our purpose by helping to manage and improve patient health through safe and appropriate dispensing, counseling, and immunizing practices
• Overseeing the pharmacy team during bench shifts, including strengthening pharmacy performance measures through effective coaching and consistent follow-up of pharmacy team members
• Supporting safe and accurate prescription fulfillment by following—and directing the pharmacy team to follow—pharmacy workflow procedures and utilizing the safety guardrails at every workstation
• Contributing to positive patient experiences by showing empathy and genuine care, and coaching the pharmacy team to do the same: demonstrating compassionate care, collaborating with the patient’s total healthcare team, and proactively resolving insurance and/or medication issues
• Proactively offering and delivering immunizations to keep patients healthy; identifying, engaging, and supporting Pharmacy Technicians to learn to immunize
• Supporting the effective management of pharmacy inventory by following—and coaching the pharmacy team to follow—all inventory best practices, with a special focus on protecting cold chain products for our patients and our business
• Conducting new Technician and Pharmacist onboarding for the store and district, including training on CVS workflow, and ensuring all trainees are on-track for timely completion of required training and/or licensure
• Ensuring pharmacy operations are fully compliant with state Board of Pharmacy regulations at all times; escalating issues or concerns to the Rx DL for additional support if/as needed
• Partnering with the Store Manager to maintain a healthy talent pipeline of cross-trained colleagues willing to work in the pharmacy, and ensuring that cross-trained colleagues are on-track for timely completion of all required training for licensure
• Overseeing Staff Pharmacists and District Support Pharmacists (DPSs) (where applicable), managing performance through direct observation, peer and team feedback, and/or validation of results; delivering annual performance reviews and closing gaps as needed
• Remaining flexible…