Chief Pharmacy Officer

Overview

The Chief Pharmacy Officer is an executive position responsible for comprehensive strategic and operational pharmacy services leadership for Providence Health System.  The Chief Pharmacy Officer (CPO) is expected to lead the transformation of pharmacy services across all divisions within the health system, bridging leadership in delivering pharmaceutical strategies system-wide.  He or she will ensure the delivery of safe, effective, high-value and accountable pharmaceutical services across the continuum to ensure high-performance affordability, patient experience and health outcomes for those served.  This individual will function as a member of the Providence clinical senior executive leadership team, which has responsibility for the development and implementation of a high-performance delivery system.

This role can be located in either our Seattle, WA, Irvine, CA or Portland, OR markets.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Chief Executive - Clinical Shared Services, the CPO will build effective working relationships system-wide with pharmacy and operational leaders across the full continuum of care, in order to achieve pharmacy strategic objectives.  The chief pharmacy officer will play a role in defining the structure of the pharmacy organization in order to achieve those goals.

The primary duties of this position will include the following areas:

Leadership oversight: 

• Accountability for financial sustainability, regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and clinical and quality program oversight within Providence.

• Through a well-defined pharmacy management structure and operating governance framework, accountable for executing strategies and tactics for pharmacy services (clinical and product-level services) across business units and programs, assisting regional and local implementations 

• Responsible for leading a system pharmacy governance council, with membership of pharmacy leaders from each region, providing strategic direction and pharmacy priorities in coordination with the Providence clinical strategic plan 

• Participates in and actively engages on various Providence leadership councils to ensure that the voice of pharmacy is integrated in any work being planned and/or implemented across the system

• Builds and maintains strong, positive relationships with medical staff through participation with the system P&T committee, Clinical Care and Personalized Health, and the CQO and CNO offices to integrate physicians into decision-making processes and to ensure that clinician needs are heard and addressed 

• Maintains high employee morale and positive relationships with employees in a manner that results in high employee satisfaction and excellence in patient care delivery

• Supports and develops management staff to build a high-performing and productive management team 

• Leads the Providence Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, with responsibility for charter compliance, meeting development, membership, and maintenance of the committee; this includes working with Clinical Care and Personalized health to ensure appropriate Clinical Review Committees for therapeutic class reviews as needed by the committee

• Through the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, develops and maintains a high-performing Providence St. Joseph Formulary for the system

Pharmacy technology investment oversight: 

• Provides consultative expertise and influence to pharmacy business units and assists in guiding regional and system direction on key pharmacy technology investment decisions 

• Utilizes the pharmacy governance council as a framework for development, justification, approval, and deployment of technology-related decisions and recommendations within the system processes and approval committees 

• Sanctions diverse workgroups through the pharmacy governance council to assess the need for specific technology within pharmacy business units and regional divisions, with the expectation of support from the leadership at the business unit level to lead these workgroups as necessary 

• Partners with Informatics, pharmacy directors from across the regions, Chief Information & Digital Officer, Chief Executives, and other key stakeholders to ensure that appropriate decision channels are pursued in implementing technology and achieving triple-aim measures at an enterprise level

Pharmaceutical supply chain oversight: 

• System oversight for efficient pharmacy supply chain practices across all business units within Providence such that economi