Company: Oak Street Health

Title: Manager, Pharmacy Programs

Location: Downtown Chicago (30 W. Monroe St.)

Oak Street Health is a rapidly growing, innovative company of community-based healthcare centers delivering higher quality health and wellness care that improves outcomes, manages medical costs and provides an unmatched experience for adults on Medicare in medically underserved communities. By providing holistic, comprehensive and integrated care right in our patients' communities, we can help keep them healthy and reinvest cost savings in further care for those same communities and others. Since 2013, Oak Street Health has brought its singular approach to tens of thousands of people across the nation. With an ambitious growth trajectory, Oak Street Health is attracting and cultivating team members who embody Oak Street values and are passionate about our mission to rebuild healthcare as it should be.

For more information, visit www.oakstreethealth.com.

Role Description and Responsibilities

The Manager of Pharmacy is a registered pharmacist responsible for providing clinical leadership and strategy to support medication management for the organization. The Manager of Pharmacy will be responsible for driving medication adherence performance, disease management, and medication optimization. 

The Manager of Pharmacy will directly manage a team of 12 Pharm Techs and serve as cohort leader for pharmacists in the organization. 

This leader is proficient in project management and proactively uses data and analysis to track, benchmark, and communicate the outcomes of medication efforts to ensure operational, clinical quality, and organizational priorities are achieved.

The Manager of Pharmacy will report to the VP of Population Health.

Core Responsibilities:

• Elevate the pharmacy program at Oak Street Health through meaningful contributions to overall health outcomes

• Deliver evidence-based, patient-centered medication recommendations

• Drive medication adherence strategy and achieve 4.5+ on Part D Stars

• Optimize medication reconciliation process 

• Improve the management of A1c for patients living with diabetes, and contribute to broader disease management program improvement

• Recognize the important role of behavior and lifestyle interventions alongside medication interventions in managing chronic disease, and have a track record of successful care collaborations with clinicians to support behavior change as part of holistic approach to chronic disease management

• Support the implementation of clinical guidelines (e.g., hypertension, diabetes, heart failure)

• Optimize tools and data around medication to equip care teams to better support patients with a well-optimized medication regimen

• Directly manage and optimize the outcomes from Pharm Tech interventions

• Define the structure and responsibilities for the regional Pharmacist role 

• Create interventions for Part D cost strategy

• Other duties, as assigned

What are we looking for?

• PharmD licensure required

• Other advanced degree (MBA, MHA, MPH, Master of Science) preferred 

• Familiarity with CMS Stars and Medication Adherence strategy

• Strong analytical skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Demonstrated strategic and analytical problem-solving capabilities

• Experience in clinical leadership roles, leading and coaching pharmacists and pharmacy techs

• Ability to effectively and succinctly synthesize large amounts of information into a format that is easy for others to understand

• Ability to function in an entrepreneurial environment and manage in the midst of ambiguity

• Excited by the work of creating and implementing new processes in order to execute the Oak Street vision

• Ability to collaborate effectively with executive staff, administration, providers, payer partners and managed care operations leaders

• Passionate about their work and motivated to be a part of a fast growing organization

• Self-aware and confident in their leadership skills 

• Strong belief in the value based care model and a passion to 'rebuild healthcare as it should be'

• Proficiency in Excel required

• US work authorization

• Someone who embodies being 'Oaky"

What does being "Oaky" look like?

Radiating positive energy

Assuming good intentions

Creating an unmatched patient experience

Driving clinical excellence

Taking ownership and delivering results

Being scrappy

Why Oak Street?

Oak Street Health offers our coworkers the opportunity to be at the forefront of a revolution in healthcare, as well as:

• Collaborative and energetic culture

• Fast-paced and innovative environment

• Competitive benefits including paid vacation and sick time, generous 401K match with immediate vesting, and health benefits

Oak Street Health is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and encourage all interested readers to apply to oakstreethealth.com/careers.