Pharmacy Manager
University of Texas at AustinJob Posting Title: Pharmacy Manager - Hiring Department: Dell Medical School - Position Open To: All Applicants - Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 - FLSA Status: Exempt from FLSA - Earliest Start Date: Oct 05, 2026 - Position Duration: Expected to Continue - Location: UT MAIN CAMPUS - Job Details: General Notes Dell Medical School is seeking a Pharmacy Manager. Purpose The Manager, Pharmacy is responsible for overseeing the daily operations, clinical quality, regulatory compliance, and financial performance of ambulatory medication management services across a multi-site health system, with a focused scope spanning ambulatory surgery centers (ASC), outpatient clinics, imaging services, and infusion settings. This role serves as a working manager, actively participating in medication operational workflows to ensure safe, compliant, and effective medication management and optimal patient outcomes, while also building the medication management infrastructure and governance framework required to support both current ambulatory operations and future hospital services by bridging current and future-state operations. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer for Hospital Planning & Operations, the role requires deep expertise in ambulatory pharmacy operations, 340B standards, controlled substance compliance, drug security, regulatory standards, investigational drug services, and clinic-based care delivery, while balancing direct clinical involvement with operational and financial stewardship, including inventory management, purchasing oversight, and quality improvement initiatives. A key strategic priority for this role is the development and implementation of standardized medication management policies across all ambulatory settings, including centralized clinic prior authorization and medication refill management, while establishing scalable, system-wide capabilities that can extend into inpatient and acute care settings. This role also supports the development and oversight of investigational drug services (IDS) for clinical research and trials across Dell Medical School, including the infrastructure, governance, and financial sustainability needed to support the management of investigational products safely and compliantly throughout the study lifecycle. As a working manager, this position leads by example, actively participating in service delivery, ensuring regulatory adherence, and driving continuous process improvement. As the organization grows, additional ambulatory sites and responsibilities will be added, with expansion into hospital services over time. Responsibilities Direct Medication Management Operations Oversees medication procurement, inventory, and distribution systems for all ASC, clinic sites, and clinical research inventory, maintaining safe and efficient workflows that align with clinic and ASC operations. Serves as pharmacist consultant of the ASC site. Monitors operational metrics to improve medication access, efficiencies and patient safety. Oversees medication management training programs. Leads quality improvement and patient safety initiatives including the development and operationalization of a Medication Management Oversight Committee; Identifies and drives process improvement across medication use systems. Oversees medication management policies enterprise-wide, including white/brown/clear bagging policy, patient assistance program governance, investigational drug service (IDS) , and drug security standards. Designs and implements scalable medication-use infrastructure and workflows that can extend beyond ambulatory settings to support future hospital clinical and clinical research operations. Defines the scope of IDS services, study acceptance and prioritization criteria, and decision pathways for determining when investigational products must be managed by IDS or through an approved affiliated or external pharmacy. Ensure Ambulatory and Investigational Pharmacy Regulatory Compliance and Medication Safety …