(USA) Pharmacy Manager (2024)

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

The prescriptions are stocked. We need you to bring the passion.

TheWalmartRx Manageroperates the pharmacy from a place of true caring. Come ready to showyour heart for the community we serve, as well as the staff you will grow and develop.

It takes strong clinical knowledge and business acumen.You will be empowered to work to the top of your license, ensuring a high level of patient care, while also creating a strategy for growth.

We are looking for someone that shows autonomy, advocating for new initiatives, impacting your community, and leading by example. You will set the tone for how we care for our patients. You will be empowered to elevate care and inspire your staff to do the same.

Thepharmacyenvironment is fast paced and equipped with the resources and technology you need to succeed. Your biggest tool?Yourability to authenticallyconnect with our patients, as they turn to Walmart for trusted care.

You’llreally wow usif…

-You’rean advocate of patient-centered care. You easily adapt to apatient base from a myriad of backgrounds and medical concerns and can remove barriers for all patients to be healthier and happier.

-You bring with you a strong business mindset. Analyzing metrics and P&Ls is a task you enjoy and use it to guide the standards you set among your team.

-You’re passionate about community involvement and enjoy doing outreach and events, including regular Wellness Days.

You’ll make an impact by…

-Letting your energy and enthusiasm shine. As a business leader, you influence and motivate your team to change lives for the better.

-Displaying an owner’s mentality. You are compliance driven, accustomed to hiring and managing top talent, comfortable driving strategy and truly invested in the business.

-Using tools, data, and personal conversations tounderstandyour communitydemographics and commonconcerns andstay up to date on emergent and urgent health issues therein.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

Benefits & Perks:

Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, andmuch more.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Provides comprehensive patient care to customers by processing and accurately dispensing prescription orders; administering immunizations; and administering other programs developed by Walmart, in compliance with Board of Pharmacy statutes/regulations.

Drives sales and profit in the Pharmacy and OTC areas by ensuring effective merchandise presentation, including accurate and competitive pricing, proper signing, in-stock and inventory levels, budgeting and forecasting sales, developing and maintaining cross functional relationships, and assessing economic trends and demographics.

Models, enforces, and provides direction and guidance to Associates on proper Customer service approaches and techniques to ensure Customer needs, complaints, and issues are successfully resolved within Company guidelines and standards.

Oversees the implementation of and participates in community outreach programs and encourages Associates to serve as a good member of the community.

Ensures compliance with Company and legal policies, procedures, and regulations for assigned areas by analyzing and interpreting reports, implementing and monitoring loss prevention and safety controls, overseeing safety, operational, and quality assurance reviews, developing and implementing action plans, and providing direction and guidance on executing Company programs and strategic initiatives.

Provides supervision and development opportunities for Associates in assigned areas by selecting, training, mentoring, assigning duties, providing performance feedback, providing recognition, and ensuring diversity awareness.

Ensures confidentiality of information, documentation, and assigned records as required by Company policies, and local, State, and Federal guidelines.

Judgment: Make Informed Judgments: Uses relevant business metrics, analyses, and reports to measure, monitor, and improve performance. Identifies and applies sound, fact-based criteria in setting priorities and making decisions. Looks beyond symptoms to determine the root causes of problems, and identify and implement applicable solutions. Integrates knowledge and expertise in making fact-based recommendations and decisions.

Customer/Member Centered: Ensure Customer/Member Centered Performance: Analyzes data and information, and develops plans to exceed customer/member expectations. Sponsors initiatives and practices that provide customers/members with desired products, services, and experiences and that grow the business. Ensures customers/members receive the level of service that builds their trust and confidence. Removes barriers to delivering customer/member value, service, and support.

Execution and Results: Ensure Execution and Achieve Results: Conveys a sense of urgency in ways that motivate others to complete responsibilities and achieve goals. Pursues the achievement and alignment of measurable and meaningful goals. Leverages resources and talent to achieve business goals. Ensures others are held accountable for achieving expected results. Prioritizes and balances time, actions, and projects to ensure accomplishment of results. Monitors progress of others and redirects efforts when goals change or results are not met.

Planning and Improvement: Ensure Planning and Improvement: Sets clear expectations, performance measures, and goals, and helps others do the same. Plans for and ensures others have the information, resources, implementation time, and talent needed to accomplish business initiatives. Identifies and plans for improvement in performance using key business metrics.

Influence and Communicate: Build and Influence Team: Develops and communicates logical, convincing reasons, including lessons learned, to build support for one's viewpoints and actions. Involves others in decisions and plans that affect them, when appropriate. Recognizes and rewards team accomplishments, celebrating team and organizational success. Ensures business priorities, change initiatives, and organizational information are communicated in clear and compelling ways. Promotes the exchange of diverse experiences and ideas within own organization.

Ethics and Compliance: Ensure Ethics and Compliance: Actively communicates, trains, and guides associates on compliance with policies and procedures. Maintains an environment that promotes and reinforces the highest standards of integrity and ethics. Anticipates potential issues and takes action to enhance compliance.

Adaptability: Adapt and Learn: Demonstrates creativity and strength in the face of change, obstacles, or adversity. Adapts to competing demands and shifting priorities. Updates knowledge and skills to handle new complexities, challenges, and responsibilities. Seeks exposure to new ideas and perspectives. Identifies and takes steps to improve adaptability and continuous learning capabilities in own organization.

Build Relationships: Network Internally and Externally: Builds trusting, collaborative relationships and alliances with others, inside and outside of the organization. Relates to others in an accepting and respectful manner, regardless of their organizational level, personality, or background. Promotes a team-based work environment that respects, embraces, and values diversity in others.

Manages Pharmacy Operations: Conducts Associate meetings to identify and respond to their needs, concerns, and issues related to pharmacy products or services and to share information related to new initiatives. Ensures pharmacy operations are aligned with Company and regulatory (for example, HIPAA, SOP, QA) policies, standards, and procedures. Ensures adherence to proper policies and procedures for advising on, verifying, and dispensing products and Customer, insurance, and licensure issues. Documents information on changes in pharmaceutical products and procedures, and new ideas, approaches, and processes and shares the information with Associates and Managers.

Oversees Inventory Flow: Regularly monitors the inventory flow process to identify merchandise that needs to be ordered. Ensures proper execution of inventory flow processes. Monitors and evaluates the facility to identify and address problems with inventory flow.

Talent: Manage and Leverage Talent : Develops talent plans for own organization targeted at increasing effectiveness, building diversity, and enhancing bench strength. Manages roles, assignments, and developmental opportunities to maximize organizational performance. Ensures people processes (for example, selection, development, performance evaluation) lead to effective associate performance and desired results throughout own organization. Monitors associate performance and provides constructive feedback that is specific, honest, accurate, and timely. Provides learning opportunities, guidance, and support in the development of associates.

Manages Finances: Demonstrates sound financial management skills, including interpreting, analyzing, and explaining financial data and information. Manages budgets and ensures budgets and financial performance are aligned with business strategic requirements. Ensures assets, liabilities, revenues, and operating expenses are accounted for and reported. Complies with Company financial policies and procedures. Compiles and evaluates financial data to ensure operating procedures meet business needs. Monitors financial data and trends to identify and respond to market changes and other areas of opportunity.

Quality Patient Care-Facility: Creates a culture of patient care, safety, and accuracy. Communicates clear expectations regarding quality of care and patient safety. Ensures others are held accountable for following standard operating procedures (SOP) and achieving expected quality and patient safety goals. Ensures counseling (providing information related to the health service provided) occurs on new therapy (new items) and as requested by patients or required by practice or state regulations, including appropriate documentation. Analyzes and identifies areas of improvement needed and implements intervention steps to improve team knowledge and focus on patient safety and risk reduction. Promotes reporting and transparency of errors whether actual or patient perceived. Writes timely and effective plans of action focused on identification and correction of root cause.

Compliance Focused Execution-Facility: Creates and fosters an environment centered on health care compliance execution. Actively communicates, trains, and guides the processes for completion and follow-up on compliance initiatives to associates within Health & Wellness and other associates as applicable to the respective health care business. Implements compliance initiatives and priorities and monitors compliance execution by others. Ensures appropriate operational execution of billing procedures, HIPAA compliance adherence, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). Utilizes auditing processes to identify compliance issues and implement processes for improvement.#LI-LK3

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursem*nt, and more.

You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

The annual salary range for this position is $112,000.00-$197,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

- Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)

- Sales Volume Category (SVC) (based on facility sales volume)

- Complex Structure (based on external factors that create challenges)

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy or PharmD, degree or equivalent FPGEC (NABP).

Pharmacy license (by job entry date).

Completion of an ACPE accredited immunization training program (for example, APhA, Pharmacy School Curriculum, State Pharmacy Association sponsored).

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

U.S. pharmacy related experience

Primary Location...

2000 W Memorial Rd, Oklahoma City, OK 73134-6506, United States of America

(USA) Pharmacy Manager (2024)

FAQs

How do I become a pharmacy manager in USA? ›

Pharmacy Manager Requirements:
  1. Bachelor's Degree.
  2. Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm. D.)
  3. North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX)
  4. Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination (MPJE)
  5. American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Immunization Certificate.
  6. 1+ Years of Experience.
Apr 18, 2024

Who is a good pharmacy manager? ›

She needs to take charge when problems arise, hire the right talent and hone each member of her team to work to the best of their abilities. Successful pharmacy managers aren't just pharmacists or business school grads—they're extremely goal-oriented individuals who understand what it takes to run a business.

What are the key responsibilities of a pharmacy manager? ›

  • Coordinate and oversee the day-to-day operations of the pharmacy store.
  • Lead, coach, mentor and develop your team to deliver high performance.
  • Oversee the procurement and supply of medicines.
  • Administer immunisations and vaccines to patients.
  • Monitor and ensure customers are prescribed the correct medicines.

Is it hard to become a pharmacist in the US? ›

It takes about six years of rigorous schooling to become a pharmacist, but perseverance can pay off in the form of a high-earning, impactful career.

Which pharmacist has highest salary in USA? ›

High Paying Pharmacist Jobs
  • Chief Pharmacist. Salary range: $137,500-$166,500 per year. ...
  • Pharmacy Consultant. Salary range: $104,000-$163,500 per year. ...
  • Pharmacometrician. Salary range: $140,500-$162,500 per year. ...
  • Hospital Pharmacist. ...
  • Pharmaceutical Physician. ...
  • Registered Pharmacist. ...
  • Inpatient Pharmacist. ...
  • Long Term Care Pharmacist.

What is the difference between a pharmacist and a pharmacy manager? ›

A pharmacy manager is a pharmacist whose role goes beyond general pharmacy, into overseeing the day-to-day operations of the facility.

What is a pharmacy manager called? ›

A pharmacy manager oversees the day-to-day tasks of the pharmacy operations and manages all staff within the department, ensuring that prescriptions are being filled, that staff members complete their assigned duties, and local, and federal procedures have been followed.

What is the highest rank pharmacist? ›

There are opportunities to further progress to the role of consultant pharmacist - a clinical expert who works at a senior level. Other senior posts include deputy chief and chief pharmacist.

How to manage a pharmacy effectively? ›

Use these 10 tips to make your pharmacy management effective and useful.
  1. Create a structured work environment. ...
  2. Determine employees' strengths and weaknesses. ...
  3. Show your appreciation. ...
  4. Promote teamwork. ...
  5. Determine your goals. ...
  6. Be a leader, not just a boss. ...
  7. Communicate effectively. ...
  8. Train up new managers.

What are the daily tasks of a pharmacy manager? ›

Monitoring product displays, shelves, and the general appearance of the pharmacy. Addressing customers' requests and complaints. Hiring and training new pharmacy employees and scheduling shifts. Keeping accurate records of inventory, patient information, and insurance claims.

What does a CVS pharmacy manager do? ›

In addition to leading and directing your Pharmacy Staff, comprised of both staff Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians, you are accountable for the management, oversight and operation of all aspects within your pharmacy.

What skills are needed to be a store manager of a pharmacy? ›

A pharmacy manager needs to have a strong customer service orientation, as well as the ability to empathize, listen, and communicate effectively. Customer service also requires a thorough knowledge of the pharmacy's products and services, the relevant laws and regulations, and the best practices and standards of care.

What is the hardest year of pharmacy? ›

This marks the halfway point through pharmacy school - we're almost there! The third year of pharmacy school has the most difficult classes by far.

What is the minimum salary of pharmacist in US? ›

How much does a Pharmacist make in USA? The average pharmacist salary in the USA is $118,978 per year or $57.20 per hour. Entry level positions start at $104,825 per year while most experienced workers make up to $147,043 per year.

Is it harder to become a doctor or pharmacist? ›

The Differences Between Pharmacists And General Physicians

You will need to complete your undergraduate program as well as 4-year PharmD program to become licenced. To become a doctor, you will require more schooling. Physicians will need to complete an undergraduate degree, medical school, and residency requirements.

How to become a manager in a pharma company? ›

Here are the four primary steps to become a pharmacist manager:
  1. Earn a bachelor's degree. ...
  2. Acquire a license. ...
  3. Complete immunization training course. ...
  4. Gain experience. ...
  5. Customer service. ...
  6. Communication skills. ...
  7. Empathy. ...
  8. Leadership skills.
Feb 1, 2024

How do I become a healthcare manager in USA? ›

Obtain a bachelor's degree in healthcare administration. A healthcare administration degree will provide the solid footing needed to get a job in this field. A program like this will have courses in delivery systems, regulations, compliance, finance, values and ethics, management and strategy, and leadership.

How much does a pharmacy director earn in the US? ›

While ZipRecruiter is seeing annual salaries as high as $210,000 and as low as $13,000, the majority of Director Of Pharmacy salaries currently range between $129,000 (25th percentile) to $170,500 (75th percentile) with top earners (90th percentile) making $196,500 annually across the United States.

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