System Manager, Pharmacy - FSED/ASC Operations

Summary

The System Manager, Pharmacy – Freestanding Emergency Department (FSED) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Operations is responsible for the strategic leadership, operational oversight, and system-wide standardization of services supporting FSED and ASC locations. This role provides direct leadership and reporting structure for local site operations while driving system strategy across personnel, financial performance, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance. The System Manager ensures the delivery of safe, high-quality, cost-effective services aligned with organizational goals, growth strategies, and regulatory requirements. The role partners with executive leadership and local site leaders to develop scalable models, optimize resource utilization, and support expansion across FSED and ASC sites.

Job Description:

Baptist Health is looking for a System Manager, Pharmacy - FSED / ASC Operations! This is a remote opportunity.

Freestanding Emergency Department (FSED) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Operations

• Provides leadership and supervision to designated groups of employees including assurance of quality service delivered by a competent staff to consistently meet the needs of the patients served.
• Demonstrates management of staff performance including:
  • Talent Acquisition
  • Orientation process
  • Continuous performance assessment
  • Corrective action
• Provides supervision and reporting structure to assure productivity and performance.
  • Promotes a culture that fosters the well-being of employees in the department.
  • Ensures clear role expectations for staff, including expectation documents and verbal communications.
  • Coordinates individual and group training along with effective cross-training programs.
  • Ensures compliance of all departmental staff with mandatory education and employee health.
  • Identifies opportunities for staff professional development/continuing education/in-service education.
  • Assists in annual preparation and monthly variance reviews of the budget and capital requests.
  • Assists with maintaining the schedule for pharmacists, technicians, and ancillary staff.
  • Supports capital planning related to infrastructure, automation, and service expansion.
  • Aligns resource allocation with system strategic priorities and growth forecasts.
  • Identifies opportunities to improve financial performance, including labor management, supply chain optimization, and service line growth.
  • Performs financial analysis, including variance reporting, productivity tracking, and cost optimization initiatives.
  • Develops, manages, and monitors operational and capital budgets for FSED and ASC services
  • Analyzes systems and operations involved with medication storage, preparation, and distribution to ensure cost-effective and optimal delivery of medication therapy.
  • Assists in identifying medication safety initiatives designed to reduce medication events and adverse drug events and ensures that staff are adequately supported and held accountable for desired results.
  • Assists with overseeing purchasing (and ensuring 340b compliance (if applicable).

• Assists in coordinating departmental quality assurance programs.
• Assists in maintaining formulary compliance.
• Assists in overseeing and ensuring compliance with USP 795, USP 797, USP 800, and USP 825.
• Assists with biweekly payroll.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy or Doctorate of Pharmacy required.
• Graduate of accredited College of Pharmacy.
• Kentucky and/or Indiana Board of Pharmacy license in good standing as applicable to practice site is required.
• 3 years minimum job-related experience.

Preferred Experience and Qualifications

• Master's degree, Board Certification.
• PGY-1/PGY-2 ASHP Residency in administration.
• Management experience.
• 5 years of hospital practice experience.

If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now!

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

About Us

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.

Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.

Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

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