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Job Summary and Qualifications

We are seeking an energetic, detail-oriented, and forward-thinking Pharmacy Operations Manager to join our leadership team at our dynamic community hospital. In this critical role, you will be the driving force behind our operational excellence, ensuring the highest standards of safety, compliance, and efficiency across our inpatient pharmacy services.

If you are a collaborative leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about mentoring staff and optimizing medication workflows, we want you on our team.

Key Responsibilities

• Compounding Oversight: Maintain rigorous regulatory and quality control standards for our sterile and non-sterile compounding areas, ensuring full alignment with USP guidelines and institutional safety protocols.
• Medication Safety Leadership: Serve as a chair of the Medication Safety Committee, actively identifying risk reduction strategies, analyzing error data, and leading continuous quality improvement initiatives in the multidisciplinary team.
• Technician Supervision & Development: Lead, mentor, and empower our dedicated pharmacy technician team. Foster an engaging, collaborative culture focused on professional growth, high performance, and operational agility.
• Resource Management & Operational Flow: Oversee day-to-day medication distribution, inventory management, and workflow efficiencies to ensure seamless support for our nursing and medical staffs.

What qualifications you will need:

• Education: Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) or Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from an accredited institution. Completion of a PGY1 or PGY2 Health-System Pharmacy Administration residency is a strong plus.
• Licensure: Current pharmacist licensure (or eligibility for licensure) in the state.
• Experience: Minimum of 3–5 years of hospital pharmacy experience, with progressive leadership or supervisory responsibilities. Demonstrated expertise in sterile compounding regulations and medication safety practices.
• Skills: Exceptional communication, problem-solving abilities, and a proven track record of leading teams through operational change.

Benefits

St. Marks Hospital, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

For 150 years, St. Marks Hospital has provided a full-spectrum of healthcare services to Salt Lake City and its surrounding communities. As Utahs first hospital, St. Marks team members uphold a rich tradition of patient-centered, top-quality care at our 308 plus bed hospital. St Marks drives the development of some of the regions finest clinical service areas such as neurosciences, trauma, orthopedics, cardiac care and robotic surgery. St. Marks was named to the Fortune/IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals® list. This is the eighth time this hospital has been recognized with this honor as one of the top performing Teaching Hospitals in the U.S.

St. Marks has expanded emergency access to the communities we serve with two free standing emergency centers, Taylorsville Emergency Center and West Valley Emergency Center . Both locations have 10 plus patient rooms are staffed 24/7 by experienced board-certified emergency room physicians, nurses and support teams from St. Marks Hospital. In addition to ER care, both facilities give comprehensive imaging services, including computerized tomography (CT scan), Xray, and ultrasound as well as a fully-equipped medical laboratory.

Nestled at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains, St. Marks sits in a picturesque and ideal location. From our hospital doors its a quick commute to Salt Lakes urban and cultural benefits, and a short drive to outdoor adventures and Utahs glorious national parks.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated 3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Pharmacy Manager opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

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