Pharmacy District Manager

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Job Description:

This position requires travel to multiple retail locations in the Frederick, Hagerstown and Hanover, MD market area.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The associate is responsible for the functions below, in addition to other duties as assigned:

District Leadership and Strategy

• Leads a pharmacy district of up to twenty-five (25) retail pharmacy locations to achieve operational and financial goals.
• Builds an engaged and accountable team while providing strategic, operational, and people-focused leadership.
• Translates departmental and organizational strategies and communicates clear district and store-level plans.
• Leads district implementation and sustainment of new programs, services, technologies, and workflows.

Talent and Staffing

• Develops, evaluates, and works to retain a team of accountable and high performing Pharmacy Managers, Staff Pharmacists, and Floating Pharmacists.
• Partners with scheduling, recruitment, training, and human resource teams to address workforce needs to ensure locations are appropriately staffed and trained.
• Ensures effective pharmacist, technician, intern, and leadership talent pipelines.
• Maintains district succession plans and develops internal candidates for future leadership positions.

Operational Execution and Customer Experience

• Ensures consistent execution of pharmacy workflow, services, inventory, department presentation standards, and security.
• Ensure associates operate in a way that drives a high level of customer satisfaction and retention.
• Evaluates workload, staffing, competencies, and physical workflow to identify opportunities for safer and more efficient operations.
• Supports Pharmacy Managers in resolving complex patient, customer, associate, and operational concerns.
• Conducts regular pharmacy visits and follows through on identified commitments, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Maintains a working knowledge of all pharmacy systems, technologies, and programs.

Business Performance

• Responsible for district performance towards the operational and financial goals of the department.
• Uses performance data to identify trends, determine root causes, and establish plans for improvement.
• Monitors competitive and market conditions and recommends actions to protect or expand market share.
• Proactively identify opportunities for improvement and present innovative ideas and recommendations to pharmacy leadership to enhance operational efficiency, patient care, and overall department performance.

Patient Safety, Quality and Compliance

• Ensures safe pharmacy operations and compliance with applicable laws, regulations, company policies, and professional standards.
• Provides district oversight on continuous quality improvement, medication safety, controlled-substance management, and regulatory readiness.
• Reviews audit, inspection, and patient-safety findings to ensure timely corrective action.
• Serves as the initial field leadership resource for regulatory and pharmacy-practice concerns and escalates risks appropriately.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Maintains effective working relationships with store operations, front-end leadership, compliance, human resources, scheduling, training, marketing, and Pharmacy leadership.
• Communicates district performance, emerging risks, operational barriers, and recommended actions to appropriate leadership.
• Represents Pharmacy Services in district and regional business discussions and supports coordinated execution across pharmacy and store operations.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position directly supervises up to twenty-five (25) Pharmacy Managers carrying out supervisory responsibilities as well as both part-time and full-time Floating Pharmacists in accordance with Weis Markets policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, training, directing, rewarding, and disciplining associates; appraising associate performance; and resolving complaints within the district.

Qualification Requirements

To perform this job successfully, the associate must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required:

Education and/or Experience

Doctoral degree (PHARM.D.) or Bachelor of Science (BS) in Pharmacy, plus five (5) years' experience in retail pharmacy and with at least two (2) years as a pharmacy manager; or equivalent combination of education and experience.  In addition, working knowledge of pharmacy systems is helpful.

Active pharmacist license and immunization certification for the primary state for which the district operates with expectations to obtain pharmacist licensure in all states for which the district operates within 180 days of hire.

Salary and Benefits

The annual salary for this position is $150,000.00 - $192,000.00. This role is eligible for an annual short- term incentive plan.

Weis Markets offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package such as health plan, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, short term disability, basic life and AD&D, group whole life with long term care rider, and voluntary insurance such as hospital indemnity, accident and critical illness, 401(k) retirement savings plans, scholarship program and associate discount programs, auto and home insurance, employee assistance program, pet insurance, purchasing power, ID theft protection, legal services, paid time off, sick pay provided the eligibility and criteria specific to the position is met.

Weis Markets is an Equal Opportunity Employer:  Weis Markets is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of actual or perceived age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, familial status, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with a disability may be entitled to a reasonable accommodation under terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the ways things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Weis Markets.