POSITION SUMMARY:

Welcome to Clearway Health - a recognized Great Place To Work® and destination organization! We are an award-winning culture where talented people are respected, informed, engaged, empowered, developed - and where they want to grow and make a difference. At Clearway Health, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging is an essential part of our business and workplace culture. We offer a wide range of benefits, perks, and wellness programs in addition to continuous learning opportunities to help you grow. Clearway Health emerged as a solution from Boston Medical Center to improve access to care, provide personal support, and manage the complex specialty medication needs of vulnerable patients and their families. We partner with hospitals, health systems, and the communities they care for to accelerate their specialty pharmacy programs.

Clearway Health is seeking a proven team leader to help develop this program for our health system partners. This person will be Clearway Health's most senior leader of a partner's program, responsible for execution and ensuring that all clinical, operational, and meeting financial goals.

Position: Director of Specialty Operations - Brooklyn, NY

Department: New Business

Schedule: Full Time

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES / DUTIES:

• Leader and quarterback in enabling growth for the partner organization's new specialty pharmacy
• Execute and develop goals, plans and tactics to ensure partner's specialty pharmacy program continuously improves in size and profitability
• Develop, maintain and motivate Clearway Health on-site teams of specialty pharmacists, liaisons, and other staff to exceed goals and foster high patient and provider satisfaction; direct day-to-day oversight of those teams
• Identify trends, leads problem resolution, and lead development of processes and initiatives to continuously grow specialty pharmacy integration within clinics
• Owner of the relationship between Clearway Health and health system partner leadership and pharmacy teams
• Coordinates and manages external relationships with pharmaceutical manufacturers, third-party payors and organizations related to specialty pharmacy on behalf of partner health system
• Responsible for overseeing compliance to limited distribution drug and specialty pharmacy contract requirements in partnership with health system clients
• Direct project management for all initiatives at partner health system site related to specialty pharmacy development; includes planning, development, timely project execution
• Provide expertise in identifying improvements in pharmacy operations to ensure high levels of service within partner specialty pharmacy
• Forecasting and preparation of specialty pharmacy operating and financial plans, including financial planning and decision support
• Updating job expertise within specialty pharmacy by participating in educational forums and professional organizations, representing both the partner and Clearway Health
• Work with Clearway Health corporate resources to leverage subject matter expertise and resources needed to execute and exceed plans
• Willing to go above and beyond to do whatever is necessary for the betterment of the organization
• Open to regional geographic responsibilities that may increase with company growth (travel up to 25-50% of time potentially)

Other duties as assigned

(The above statements in this job description are intended to depict the general nature and level of work assigned to the employee(s) in this job. The above is not intended to represent an exhaustive list of accountable duties and responsibilities required).

JOB REQUIREMENTS

EDUCATION:

• Pharmacist with PharmD or BS Pharm required. MBA or other business degree preferred.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED:

• Must be currently registered as a Pharmacist with the Board of Pharmacy in the state of residence of the client.
• Multi-state licensure preferred.

EXPERIENCE:

• Dependent on education:
  • Bachelors or PharmD Pharmacy (B.S. or PharmD):
    At least 7 years in with relevant experience in research pharmacy.
  • Doctorate (Plus residency if residency is non-research related):
    At least 5 years with relevant experience in research pharmacy
  • Doctorate + PGY2 Residency (if residency experience includes research)
• At least 3 years with relevant experience in specialty or retail pharmacy
• Prior leadership experience is preferred

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Experience managing and successfully executing complex projects (preferably in a health system setting) while working with diverse stakeholders
• Leadership within a specialty pharmacy, health system, or managed care setting with a track record of transforming
• Been responsible for and successfully managed a P&L for a specialty pharmacy or large scale pharmacy program
• Clear and effective people management and communication skills
• Excellent project management skills
• Proactive approach to problem solving, high attention to detail
• Project management skills
• Proficiency in MS Office including Word, Excel, PPT, Outlook
• Experience working in a clinical setting, ideally holding a PharmD, BS in Pharmacy, or other clinical credential (e.g. RN, MD)
• Firsthand experience in starting own specialty pharmacy or early stage health care environments
• Experience and understanding with clinical knowledge in specialty drugs and treatments
• Proficiency with standard software used in a healthcare setting, such as EMR systems (e.g. EPIC, Cerner, Meditech), dispensing systems (e.g. QS/1, RX30, Liberty)
• Advanced degrees in healthcare-related field or business administration
• Knowledge and direct experience in hospital, clinic or health system environment (bonus points for a background in 340B)
• Background in specialty pharmacy accreditation (application, process and maintenance of the accreditation at partner sites)

Compensation/Benefits:

Base salary range for this full-time position is $163,000 - 200,000 + bonus + benefits

Clearway Health is a fast growing, health system based service provider. We help other health systems build, develop, and operate their own specialty pharmacy program aimed at providing exceptional patient care and outcomes while delivering significant financial results. Our partnership model assists with all aspects of specialty pharmacy program development (including embedding pharmacy resources directly within your clinics), leveraging our deep expertise acquired from directly operating within an academic health system and health plan.
Req id: 28573